{"id":520626,"date":"2026-03-13T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:14:09","slug":"singapore-ready-to-act-on-energy-will-discuss-301-probe-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520626\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Ready to Act on Energy, Will Discuss 301 Probe With US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Singapore\u2019s efforts to diversify its energy sources are paying off as war in the Middle East pushes up prices, but the government is still ready to act if needed, said Alvin Tan, Minister of State for Trade &amp; Industry and National Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe are monitoring the situation in the Middle East very carefully and we will step in to support households and businesses if necessary,\u201d Tan said in an interview with Bloomberg TV\u2019s Haslinda Amin. \u201cSingapore is an open economy so we import the vast majority of our energy, and energy is an existential issue for Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s efforts to diversify its energy sources are paying off as war in the Middle East pushes up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,11520,2420,27252,801,129,234996,3997,1870,23226,7622,1139],"class_list":["post-520626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-national-development","tag-singapore","tag-solar-energy","tag-trade-surplus","tag-utilities","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}