Malaysia and Singapore have expressed commitment to further enhance cooperation in the fields of tourism, education and environment. Both countries noted this during a meeting between Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and his Singapore counterpart Teo Chee Hean at the republic's Ministry of Home Affairs here today.
Speaking to reporters at a joint press conference, both leaders expressed the importance of greater cooperation between the two countries.
Muhyiddin said that today's meeting with Teo was fruitful, very enlightening and significant, particularly in terms of further enhancing bilateral relations. "It is very important for us to ensure that those commitment should continue," he said.
On the Singapore Tourism Board's presentation which he attended earlier, Muhyiddin said: "Singapore has achieved great strides in terms of promoting itself as a very important tourist destination. Malaysia is promoting itself to the rest of the world as well and this is an area that we agreed that we should explore further," he said.
He also spoke of projects by Malaysian government's investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd and Singapore government's investment arm Temasek Holdings, in Singapore and Johor, saying there was also a need to look into other projects such as in Desaru.
On education, Muhyiddin said among areas of cooperation were in vocational and technical education. "There is a need for us to transform our vocational education system and bring it to much a higher level in terms of qualification, for example at diploma level rather than certificate level," he said.
Muhyiddin said Singapore had good experience in this field and that there were "some models which we believe we can use for our own purpose of enhancing our vocational education."
Meanwhile, Teo said they discussed several issues including measures to improve the inflow of the people between the two countries, covering immigration matters and rapid transit link, as well as projects developed by the the investment arms of the respective countries.
Teo said these projects sent signals "about our commitment between our two countries to strengthen and developed relations between us. There are many things that we can do together in the field of education and of course tourism, environment and many other areas that we can move forward," he added.
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