Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is scheduled to meet Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in Putrajaya next month at a leaders' retreat, according to Straits Times.

The eighth edition of the retreat was held in Singapore in January this year.

Quoting Lee, the newspaper reported that the meeting between the premiers will take place about 10 days after Mahathir comes to Singapore for the Asean Summit.

Singapore, as the Asean chair, is hosting the summit for five days from Nov 11.

Lee also reportedly said that Singapore's relations with Malaysia are stable.

"The High-Speed Rail (HSR) was an issue potentially, but we worked out a two-year deferment for the project and that was a constructive resolution of what could have been a spiky dispute," he was quoted as saying.

"I hope that at the retreat, we will be able to look ahead, to discuss win-win opportunities in order to deepen our cooperation and friendship."

Lee was in Putrajaya on May 19, meeting with Mahathir for the first time since the latter was sworn in as the seventh prime minister on May 10.

- Bernama