PM Wong to visit Bangkok for first Leaders’ Retreat with Thailand’s Anutin on Sep 2
A delegation of Singapore business leaders will also be present
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is set to visit Bangkok on September 2 for the inaugural Singapore-Thailand Leaders’ Retreat. This marks Wong's first visit alongside Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. During the retreat, the leaders will discuss potential collaborations in green and digital economies, energy resilience, food security, and combating transnational crime.
Additionally, a delegation of Singaporean business leaders will attend an official dinner hosted by their Thai counterparts. The visiting delegation includes Wong, his wife, Chan Chun Sing, Vivian Balakrishnan, Grace Fu, Masagos Zulkifli, and Josephine Teo. This visit is a response to Thailand's official trip to Singapore in November 2025 and is the fifth such bilateral platform between the two countries.
In 2025, Singapore was Thailand's largest source of foreign direct investment, accounting for US$17.57 billion, while Thailand was Singapore's ninth-largest trading partner with trade totaling S$52.4 billion. Both nations have been leaders in financial connectivity in Southeast Asia, launching the first real-time payment system linkage between Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay in 2021, and the first exchange-level depository receipts cooperation in 2023.
In August 2025, they signed an implementation agreement for carbon credits cooperation, with the first call for project applications launched in March 2025. Both countries are also part of the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project, with the second phase increasing electricity trading to a maximum of 200 MW.
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