{"id":11433,"date":"2021-01-22T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118720\/singapore-gears-world-economic-forum-and-other-events"},"modified":"2021-01-22T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T00:00:22","slug":"as-covid-19-rages-on-is-singapore-risking-too-much-to-host-the-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/as-covid-19-rages-on-is-singapore-risking-too-much-to-host-the-world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"As Covid-19 rages on, is Singapore risking too much to host the World Economic Forum?"},"content":{"rendered":"In the coming months, more than a thousand government officials, business leaders and sportspeople are expected to flock to Singapore, a nation that seems to have contained Covid-19 infections far better than the United States or countries in Europe, for various events.The World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold its annual gathering there in May, the first time it will be held in Asia and just the second edition to take place outside Switzerland since its inception in 1971. The following month,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118720\/singapore-gears-world-economic-forum-and-other-events\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming months, more than a thousand government officials, business leaders and sportspeople are expected to flock to Singapore, a nation that seems to have contained Covid-19 infections far better than the United States or countries in Europe, f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}