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Vietnamese tourism agencies and companies are joining ITB Asia 2023 - a regional leading travel trade show which is held in Singapore from October 25-27.

Singapore’s factory activity grew for the first time in six months, signalling that the slump in manufacturing may have bottomed out, even as the electronics industry continued to show contraction, according to the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management.

PT Marubeni Global Indonesia has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore’s Tuas Power to export green electricity to the city state.

Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) on October 24 announced that it has given tentative approval for plans to import 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of primarily wind-generated electricity from Vietnam.

Singapore's economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the third quarter of 2023, driven by the rebound in the tourism and manufacturing sectors compared to the previous quarter, according to the estimated data from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI).

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang attended the Singapore International Cyber Security Week 2023 (SICW 2023) and the 8th ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cyber Security (AMCC-8) in Singapore from October 16-19.

Singapore’s financial regulator will conduct an on-site inspection of Credit Suisse Group AG after at least one of its customers was charged for money laundering in a scandal that has rocked the city-state.

Singapore's digital economy contributed 17.3% to economic growth and more than 200,000 tech jobs in 2022, according to new data released on October 6.

Singapore’s asset management sector is prospering rapidly, consolidating the country’s position as the “Switzerland of Asia”.

The 14th defence policy dialogue between Vietnam and Singapore took place under the chair of Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Singaporean Permanent Secretary for Defence Chan Heng Kee in Hanoi on October 5.

In order to own a car in Singapore, buyers need to spend 106,000 USD just to obtain a Certificate of Entitlement (COE), making the total cost of buying a car in the country many times higher than in other nations.

Sailing Ship 286-Le Quy Don of the Vietnam Naval Academy left the Nha Trang military port in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on October 4, beginning its journey to Singapore for a friendly visit marking the 50th anniversary of the countries’ diplomatic relations (1973-2023) and 10th anniversary of their strategic partnership (2013-2023).

Singapore will form an inter-ministerial panel to review its anti-money laundering regime and draw lessons from its recent crackdown on one of the largest money laundering cases, said Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs Josephine Teo on October 3.

The proportion of citizens aged 65 and above in Singapore has increased from 11.7% in 2013 to 19.1% this year, according to the country’s annual Population in Brief report released on September 29.