Dr Vivian: Countries need to collaborate and build a support network to combat the spread of misinformation, especially during the pandemic / Lianhe Zaobao

To celebrate 30 years of building people-to-people ties, the SIF hosted Singapore’s first-ever Public Diplomacy in Asia conference. The conference, opened by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, brought together public diplomacy experts from governments, businesses, academia, and civil society organisations to discuss how public diplomacy is conducted in Asia and the future of the practice in the ‘new normal’. The conference will also see the launch of Winning Hearts and Minds: Public Diplomacy in ASEAN – the first-ever compilation on public diplomacy in Southeast Asia.

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