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The shipment was later moved to the Hong Kong Customs depot at Hong Kong River Trade Terminal and kept indoors since 6 December 2016. This was Hong Kong's biggest seizure of such equipment in the past twenty years. [49] [50] On 24 January 2017, Hong Kong Customs announced that the military vehicles would be returned to Singapore.
Both Hong Kong (the Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China) and the Republic of Singapore are former British colonies which have maintained trade relations since the 19th century, and have both become an important financial centre, maintaining diplomatic missions and trade offices to further their bilateral relations.
Singapore maintains diplomatic relations with 189 UN member states. The three exceptions are the Central African Republic, Monaco and South Sudan. [citation needed]Singapore supports the concept of Southeast Asian regionalism and plays an active role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which it is a founding member.
Singapore has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tigers, and has surpassed its peers in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. Between 1965 and 1995, growth rates averaged around 6 per cent per annum ...
[1] [better source needed] As a separate customs territory, Hong Kong maintains and develops relations with foreign states and regions, and plays an active role in such international organisations as World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in its own right under the name of Hong Kong, China. [2] Hong Kong ...
(Bloomberg) -- Follow Bloomberg on LINE messenger for all the business news and analysis you need.Hong Kong lost its title as the world’s freest economy to Singapore for the first time since ...
Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex; Hong Kong protests continue through police opposition, rainstorms; Hong Kong leader announces withdrawal of extradition bill; Police shoot teenage protester as Hong Kong demonstrations continue; Hong Kong's Carrie Lam delivers speech on video after protests in legislature; Hundreds of Hong ...
China's Ministry of Natural Resources released the new “standard” national map on Monday, part of what it has called an ongoing effort to eliminate “problem maps.”