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title: "The ties that bind"
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date: "2026-07-30T21:05:54+00:00"
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#  The ties that bind

 Written by S Johnson on 18 December 2009.

Singapore and Japan strengthened their bilateral defence ties with the Memorandum of Defence Exchanges that will formalise interaction in an number of new areas including CBRE.

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