LANGKAWI: Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Langkawi, Malaysia, from Jan 18 to 19, to attend the Asean foreign ministers’ retreat.

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) issued a reminder yesterday that Singapore residents cannot bring bak kwa (barbecued pork slices) back from Malaysia for now. The SFA clarified that Malaysia is still not an approved source country for pork and beef under current regulations.

Some progress has been made on the “complex” issues of maritime boundaries, water and airspace but Singapore and Malaysia are not ready to resolve all of them yet, says Singapore PM Lawrence Wong.

Hundreds of thousands of people travel across the causeway connecting Singapore and Malaysia daily, making it one of the world’s busiest border crossings.

SINGAPORE: The Chingay parade in Singapore will take to the stage and the streets as the Republic and Malaysia prepare to submit a joint bid nominating the annual street event for Unesco’s intangible cultural heritage list.

As Malaysia exits an era of political turmoil, its fifth prime minister in the last six years is pushing to transform the country into a tech hub.

Malaysia has appointed a new ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar to try and implement the regional bloc’s stalled peace plan for the war-torn country.

Billionaire Kwek Leng Beng's City Developments and its joint venture partners sold 86% of their residential condominium project in central Singapore over the weekend amid signs housing demand in the city-state is recovering.

BP Batam views the establishment of the new Special Economic Zone as a strategic opportunity to create new economic potential.

Johor Bahru’s future as a major economic hub will largely depend on the successful collaboration between Malaysia’s federal and state governments,

Malaysia unveiled a slew of tax incentives to lure investors to its joint special economic zone with Singapore that seeks to add $26 billion per year to the Malaysian economy by 2030.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his Singaporean counterpart Lawrence Wong signed an agreement to create the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone, or JS-SEZ, on Jan 7 during the annual leaders' retreat in the Malaysian city of Putrajaya. Both countries will establish separate funds to facilitate investments in the zone.