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The Straits Times Article Rating

S'pore and South Korea launch strategic partnership, will deepen economic links and defence cooperation

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    20% ReliableLimited

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    -10% Center

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45% : This visit to Seoul was PM Wong's first official visit to South Korea as prime minister, and comes on the back of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Gyeongju, where he participated in the Apec Economic Leaders' Meeting between Oct 31 and Nov 1. PM Wong noted that the Korea-Singapore Free Trade Agreement - which came into force in 2006 - was South Korea's first such deal with an Asian country and laid a strong foundation for the pair's economic links to flourish, he noted.
41% : As country coordinator for Asean-Korea economic relations, Singapore also looks forward to launching negotiations to upgrade the Asean-Korea Free Trade Area in early 2026, said PM Wong.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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