[MENTION=40434]sandygtx[/MENTION]
So Apex pings are pretty good, around 150 to Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Belgium).
Singapore (MS Azure) is 200+ ms, whereas Singapore (GCE) is around 100-110 ms.
The other IP you mentioned is hosted in Oman, and it jumps to 180 ms at hop #13 which is within OmanTel's network.
OmanTel sucks ass, they were Transworlds upstream provider, and there were constantly some issues with them.
Normal latency to that server IP shouldn't be more than 70 ms.