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In this Jan. 22, 2017, photo provided by U.S. Navy, the USS John S. McCain conducts a patrol in the South China Sea while supporting security efforts in the region. The guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship on Monday, Aug. 21, in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca. (James Vazquez/U.S. Navy via AP)

The Latest: Divers assessing damage on USS John S. McCain

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170614-N-DL434-064 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 14, 2017) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) maneuvers alongside the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) for a refueling-at-sea. Bonhomme Richard is the flagship of its expeditionary strike group, operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to serve as a forward-capability for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gavin Shields/Released)

USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship near Singapore

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In this Jan. 22, 2017, photo provided by U.S. Navy, the USS John S. McCain conducts a patrol in the South China Sea while supporting security efforts in the region. The guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship on Monday, Aug. 21, in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca. (James Vazquez/U.S. Navy via AP)

The Latest: Singapore helicopter evacuates 4 injured US crew

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Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan speaks during a joint press conference with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi after their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Singapore offers to help bankroll China’s global ambitions

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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, right, meets U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, for a bilateral meeting at the Istana or Presidential Palace in Singapore on Friday, June 2, 2017. On Friday Mattis indicated that the Trump administration is aiming for continuity in Asia policy, sticking broadly with the approach its predecessors have taken by emphasizing diplomacy and cooperation with allies. (AP Photo/Joseph Nair)

Jim Mattis, defense secretary, seeks continuity in policy toward Asia

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to a reporter while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail, in Singapore. Yee whose online posts blasting his government landed in him jail was granted asylum to remain in the United States, an immigration judge in Chicago ruled Friday, March 24, 2017. Yee has been detained by federal immigration authorities since December when he was taken into custody at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Attorneys said the 18-year-old could be released from a Wisconsin detention center as early as Monday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

US immigration judge grants asylum to Singapore teen blogger

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. An immigration judge in Chicago has granted asylum to Amos Yee whose online posts criticizing his government landed him in jail. Samuel Cole issued a 13-page decision Friday, March, 24, 2017, saying Amos Yee established he's suffered past political persecution because of his political opinion and could remain in the U.S. Yee has been detained by immigration officials since December when he arrived at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

US immigration judge grants asylum to Singapore teen blogger

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. Yee, a teenage blogger awaiting a Chicago immigration judge’s ruling on his asylum request to stay in the United States said Friday, March 10, 2017, that he’s afraid of returning home to Singapore after scathing posts blasting his government landed him in jail. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Teen blogger seeking US asylum fears return to Singapore

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Lawyer: Singapore teen seeking asylum detained until hearing

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FILE - In this Tuesday, May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. Yee whose video posts and blogs mocking his government and its late founder landed him in jail twice has been detained in the U.S. where he is seeking asylum. Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. to recognize Amos Yee’s asylum claim, saying he has been consistently harassed in Singapore for publicly expressing his views. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Singapore teen critic held in US, reportedly wants asylum

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In this Nov. 22, 2016 photo, the coffin carrying the body of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe, a migrant laborer who died in his sleep in Qatar, lies outside Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. But now medical researchers say these deaths fit a familiar pattern: Every decade or so, dozens, or even hundreds, of seemingly healthy Asian men working abroad in poor conditions start dying in their sleep. The suspected killer even has a name: Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

At rising rate, Nepalis working abroad go home in coffins

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

Ex-Singapore executives extradited in Navy bribery case

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Self-driving car hits truck in Singapore; no injuries

By ANNABELLE LIANG - Associated Press

Australia, Singapore say defense pact should not worry China

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia, Singapore say defense pact should not worry China

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Singapore’s Raffles Hotel to close for face lift in late ‘17

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Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, center, is formally welcomed to the Australian Parliament in Canberra, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Prime Minister Lee inspected a guard of honour in the Parliament House Forecourt. Prime Minister Lee is on a 2-day visit to Australia. (AP Photo/Sean Davey)

Singapore’s leader visits Australia to improve defense ties

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

President Barack Obama applauds while listening to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore prime minister, urges Congress to approve free-trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha delivers the keynote address at the Opening Dinner of the 15th International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS, Asia Security Summit on Friday, June 3, 2016, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

U.S. Pentagon chief proposes Asia-Pacific ‘security network’

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press