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Singapore and Hong Kong have much to gain by working together
Both cities can learn from each other as they face many similar challenges. There are also many opportunities for regional cooperation.
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(From left) Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (centre) and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on May 30, 2022.
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Teo Chee Hean
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Singapore and Hong Kong enjoy excellent and long-standing relations, underpinned by strong economic ties, people-to-people links and regular exchanges between our leaders and officials.
In a speech made in Hong Kong in 1968, three years after Singapore's independence, the late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore was indebted to Hong Kong for serving as an example of how a small and densely populated island with no natural resources could forge its survival.
