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        "msgid": "fpda-urged-to-maintain-role-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-09-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "FPDA urged to maintain role",
        "author": null,
        "source": "DPA",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "FPDA urged to maintain role SINGAPORE (DPA): Members of the Five Power Defense Arrangement (FPDA) were urged yesterday by Singapore's military chief to maintain the organization's relevance as a deterrent force in Southeast Asia into the 21st century. Singapore's chief of defense forces, Lt. Gen.",
        "content": "<p>FPDA urged to maintain role<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (DPA): Members of the Five Power Defense Arrangement<br>\n(FPDA) were urged yesterday by Singapore's military chief to<br>\nmaintain the organization's relevance as a deterrent force in<br>\nSoutheast Asia into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore's chief of defense forces, Lt. Gen. Baey Soo Khiang,<br>\nspeaking at the end of the 14-day FPDA maneuvers codenamed<br>\n\"Starfish\", said it was only with \"progress militarily that the<br>\nFPDA can keep pace and retain its strength for regional security<br>\nand stability\".<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of troops as well as warplanes, navy ships and<br>\nsubmarines from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and<br>\nSingapore took part in Starfish war games in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The FPDA, formed in the 1970s to defend Singapore and Malaysia<br>\nahead of the withdrawal of British forces from the area, holds<br>\nregular military and naval exercises in Southeast Asia.<\/p>",
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