On 14 November 2010, Vice President Xi Jinping visited Singapore on a three day visit which affirmed Singapore's strong ties with China.

A severe diplomatic row broke out between the PRC and Singapore when Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan a month before being sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 12 August 2004.

During two years as a seaman, he rounded Cape Horn twice, landed at Batavia ( now Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies, and visited the Moluccas, Manila, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, and San Francisco.

Crean visited Singapore and Vietnam from 21 – 26 July 2009 to pursue Australia's trade and economic interests at a range of ministerial and other high level meetings.

During these stops, she visited a leper colony in China and she bought a monkey in Singapore.

Sentosa is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year.

For example, the London Congestion Charge was introduced on 17 February 2003, after London officials visited Singapore to study the ERP system, and used it as a reference for the London system.

Media reports highlighted the particularly warm reception which leaders of both countries received whenever they visited each other's domains, particularly in July 1988, when Sultan Iskandar's visit to Singapore marked the first official visit by any Yang di-Pertuan Agong since 1957.

He has performed in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain and Sri Lanka and has visited and performed in the United States of America numerous times.

In 1981 a breeder visited Singapore and chanced upon a cat fitting the profile of the Singapura ( with the exception of the tail ) in the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

He visited and helped establish the international Providence churches outside of Korea including United States, England, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple ( Chinese: 释迦牟尼菩提迦耶寺 ) is one of the most prominent and widely visited Buddhist temples in Singapore, often referred to as the Temple of 1, 000 Lights.

On 20 November 1986, Pope John Paul II visited Singapore.

In addition, other 19th century documents evidence that the Sultan of Johor exercised authority over the Orang Laut (" sea people ") who inhabited the maritime areas of the Straits of Singapore and visited Pedra Branca.

On the return journey, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, and Shanghai were also visited, although much more briefly.

In 2010, 300, 000 tourists visited Bintan Island and most of them came from Singapore, Korea and Japan.

Wang Dayuan visited Singapore ( then called Temasek or Dan Ma Xi ) in 1330 and recorded that there was a Chinese community.

Spioenkop visited Singapore from 3 – 8 October, Shanghai in the People ’ s Republic of China from 16 – 20 October, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia from 25 – 29 October, Ho Chi Minh City in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 31 October to 5 November ), Cochin in India from 14 – 20 November and Port Louis in Mauritius from 26 November to 1 December.

Some of these countries were visited more than once: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Hungary, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Poland Bahrain, Cuba, Colombia, Switzerland, France, Portugal, India and England.

Crown Prince Hirohito visited the UK and other European countries, via Singapore.

Keppel had a long association with Singapore, having visited the island on several occasions up to 1903.

For a while, the harbour was simply known as New Harbour but it was renamed Keppel Harbour by the Acting Governor, Sir Alexander Swettenham, on 19 April 1900 when Admiral Keppel visited Singapore at the age of 92.

She also visited several countries, including Singapore and Malaysia, to promote shows in which she performed such as A Kindred Spirit and to host the Channel U variety special.

The sultan also visited Java and Malacca.

Approximately during Jayanegara's reign, the Italian Friar Odoric of Pordenone visited Majapahit court in Java.

This temple was identified in Nagarakretagama as Palah temple and reported being visited by King Hayam Wuruk during his royal tour across East Java.

In his book: " Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone ", he visited several places in today's Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, and Banjarmasin in Borneo, between 1318 – 1330.

In his book he mentioned that he visited Java without explaining the exact place he had visited.

In 1896 King Chulalongkorn of Siam visited Java and requested and was allowed to take home 8 cartloads of sculptures taken from Borobudur.

In his publication, " Hortus Veitchii ", James Herbert Veitch says he visited Java in 1892, " to eat the Mangosteen.

One notable emissary, Jacob Sapir, set off for Egypt in 1857 and returned in 1863 having visited Yemen, Aden, India, Java, Australia, New Zealand and Ceylon.

The massif area is one of the most visited tourist attractions in East Java, Indonesia.

When she was in Indonesia, she visited Borobudur in Central Java with the Puteri Indonesia 2002, Melanie Putria Dewita Sari.

Forced to spend the next three years on Java he used the time to make the first thorough botanical investigation of the island, which had not previously been visited by naturalists except briefly by Carl Peter Thunberg.

Going by the Cape of Good Hope ( 1 November 1601 ) Lancaster visited the Nicobars ( from 9 April 1602 ), Aceh and other parts of Sumatra ( from 5 June 1602 ), and Bantam in Java.

Müller visited Indonesia in 1826, New Guinea and Timor in 1828, Java in 1831, and Sumatra between 1833 and 1835.

In 1860, he joined the Eulenburg Expedition, a Prussian expedition which visited Ceylon, Japan, Taiwan, Celebes, Java, the Philippines, Siam, Burma between 1860 and 1862.

He visited the island of Banca ; and then went to Batavia, the principal town in Java.

During that deployment, Java visited Algiers and Tripoli in a show of American naval strength calculated to impress the Barbary pirates and intimidate them into honoring their treaties with the United States.

File: COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Theeplukster Preanger TMnr 10011957. jpg | Tea plantation in the Preanger mountains, East Java, the area where Haasse's novel The Tea Lords is set and which she visited.

His dynasty became independent from the Javanese States, and his great-great-grandson Purbonegoro, who ruled the island between 1720 and 1747 visited Java as a sovereign ruler.

Dutch sailors first visited Bawean during their trading expedition to Java led by the explorer Cornelis de Houtman – on 11 January 1597, the expedition ship Amsterdam was badly damaged off the Bawean coast.

There is a Dutch military cemetery, Villages of Leuwigajah, maintained and occasionally visited by Dutch visitors to West Java.