Lawrence Wong

Ultimately of course, the decision to have children is a deeply personal one.

If we rely only on births, our citizen population will shrink.

I extend my warmest congratulations on your appointment as prime minister of the United Kingdom. I wish you every success as you lead the UK through this period of profound geopolitical and economic change, and as you work to build a…

I am confident that we will continue to strengthen cooperation across a wide range of areas, including in innovation, science and technology, and defence.

The strait must remain safe, open, accessible to all.

Singapore will also continue to support Indonesia’s development priorities through capacity building programmes, including in areas like healthcare and agricultural technology.

We want Indonesia to succeed because our futures are closely linked. And our confidence in Indonesia is reflected in our actions.

By working together, we can create many more opportunities for our peoples, strengthen our resilience and make our two countries, as well as our region in ASEAN, more competitive.

Indonesia has tremendous potential in renewable energy and Singapore would like to partner Indonesia in unlocking this potential.

As you can see from our discussions, Singapore and Indonesia are trusted partners with a shared stake in each other's success.

Our partnership is deep, forward-looking and full of potential. Together, we can create more opportunities than either of us could achieve alone.

We both share interest in upholding navigational rights and freedoms, and keeping sea lines of communication open to all, including the unimpeded rights of transit passage of vessels, in accordance with UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on…

We believe such a project is a win-win for both countries, and it will also be an important building block for a wider Asean power grid that will strengthen energy security across our region.

Next year as Singapore gets ready to be the chair of Asean, we will engage and consult with Indonesia closely to shape the agenda for our chairmanship.

We try different approaches, we keep what works, and we change what does not. And above all, we focus on what delivers the best outcomes for Singapore and Singaporeans.

We do not assume that yesterday’s solutions will always work tomorrow. As circumstances change, we continue to learn, adapt and innovate.

Such city-to-city cooperation matters more than ever in a world that feels "more divided and fragmented".

After all, good ideas can come from anywhere, so we want this to be a platform for mayors to engage candidly with one another, share both their successes and setbacks, and build lasting relationships.

We want to have an active multi-engagement approach towards bringing all the key parties and having all of them have stakes in Southeast Asia.

Doesn't mean that we agree with everything they do. We don't, but that should not stop us from having open lines of engagement and continuing to have friendship and continuing to have engagement with them.

It's always better to have more friends than fewer, right?

It's a global challenge. It's happening everywhere in the world. No one has the answers for now.

AI can be a game changer.

Unfortunately, it's not just Singapore alone. Every country is facing this problem.