Singapore World News API

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            "description": "As a UN special representative to Africa in 2013, he had tapped retired US generals to negotiate for peace. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE – Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has a rather unusual fix for Myanmar’s long-running civil war: Put a retired South-east Asian four-star general in charge of guiding the country’s warring sides “under a tent” to seek a humanitarian ... [3592 chars]",
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            "description": "President José Ramos-Horta also called on the Southeast Asian grouping to have the “audacity to declare the South China Sea a zone of peace” in a special address at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: Amid a fraying global security order, the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) offers a model on how “patient practical diplomacy” can transform conflict into cooperation, said Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta in a spec... [7771 chars]",
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            "content": "SINGAPORE: Seventeen countries, including Singapore, launched on Saturday (May 30) at the Shangri-La Dialogue a framework to protect critical underwater infrastructure.\nThe countries, which are from Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and Southeast Asia... [6750 chars]",
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