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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Singapore prime minister defends exclusive deal with Taylor Swift that riles some neighbors
Description: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was called on during a key regional summit on March 5 to defend an exclusive deal his city-state struck with Taylor Swift that prevents the pop star from taking her current The Eras Tour anywhere else in Southeast Asia.
Swift performed six concerts from March 2 to 9 in Singapore under an exclusive deal that has been criticized by some Southeast Asian neighbors who complain they have been deprived of the tourist boom that her concerts have brought elsewhere.
In a sign of the international phenomenon that Swift has become, the veteran Singaporean statesman was asked by...