Gates Foundation Opening Singapore Office To Deepen Southeast Asia Partnerships

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to open an office in Singapore as it seeks to deepen collaborations with governments, philanthropies and health research institutions across Southeast Asia.

“The Gates Foundation is putting up an office here to access the science [and] to partner with the philanthropic community,” Bill Gates, the billionaire cofounder of Microsoft, said Monday at the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore.

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