{"id":8819,"date":"2021-01-15T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T07:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3117879\/singapores-marina-bay-sands-eyed-venue-world-economic"},"modified":"2021-01-15T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T07:05:23","slug":"singapores-marina-bay-sands-eyed-as-venue-for-world-economic-forum-summit-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/singapores-marina-bay-sands-eyed-as-venue-for-world-economic-forum-summit-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s Marina Bay Sands eyed as venue for World Economic Forum summit: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"The World Economic Forum (WEF) is aiming to attract around 1,000 delegates for its Singapore summit in late May and wants the iconic Marina Bay Sands complex to host the event, two sources familiar with the organisation\u2019s plans said.The sources, who did not want to be identified as negotiations are ongoing, said the plans for the May 25-28 event were still fluid given the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic raging across the world.The WEF and Marina Bay Sands declined to comment. Singapore\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3117879\/singapores-marina-bay-sands-eyed-venue-world-economic\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) is aiming to attract around 1,000 delegates for its Singapore summit in late May and wants the iconic Marina Bay Sands complex to host the event, two sources familiar with the organisation\u2019s plans said.The sources, who di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"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\/8819"}],"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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}