{"id":91308,"date":"2026-10-08T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=91308"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:25:58","slug":"pm-wong-to-visit-brunei-to-mark-50-years-of-defence-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=91308","title":{"rendered":"PM Wong to visit Brunei to mark 50 years of defence ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Wong will be accompanied by his wife, as well as Coordinating Minister for Public Services and Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing, <span>Minister of State for Foreign Affairs<\/span> and Home Affairs Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim and Member of Parliament Rachel Ong.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from PMO, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also accompany them.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Energy, Trade and Industry (Trade) Gan Kim Yong will be the acting prime minister in Mr Wong\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wong&#8217;s visit comes about a month after <span>Brunei Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah <\/span><span>visited Singapore for the 12th Singapore-Brunei Young Leaders\u2019 Programme<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the five-day official visit, the crown prince met Mr Wong, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and toured Tuas Port, SAFTI City and the Singapore Oceanarium.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/pm-wong-brunei-commemorate-50th-anniversary-defence-relations-6441601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Wong will be accompanied by his wife, as well as Coordinating Minister for Public Services and Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing, Minister of State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--L5Sy4_Nw--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/06\/11\/prime_minister_lawrence_wong_at_the_official_lunch.jpg?itok=exoYXhT5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26458,3730,3623,839,1210,1209,59],"class_list":["post-91308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-brunei","tag-defence","tag-mark","tag-ties","tag-visit","tag-wong","tag-years","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}