UK signs post-Brexit free trade deal with Singapore

The United Kingdom and Singapore have signed a free-trade agreement worth more than 17 billion pounds ($22.5 billion), marking another major trade deal for Britain that is bogged down in tense talks with the European Union.

The deal was signed by Britain's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Singapore's Trade Minister Chan Chun Sing at a ceremony in the Southeast Asian city-state on Thursday.

It came as UK negotiations for a Brexit trade agreement with the European Union remain unresolved with the Dec 31 deadline looming.