Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen met with visiting Chairman of Enterprise Singapore Peter Ong on August 13, stating that his city hopes to learn from the latter’s experience in smart city building.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 13 for Chief Executive Director of the People’s Association (PA) of Singapore Desmond Tan.
Singapore's economy expanded 3.9 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2018, slightly above the advance estimate of 3.8 percent growth but lower than the median forecast of 4.1 percent.
President Tran Dai Quang has sent a message of congratulations to President of Singapore Halimah Yacob on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the National Day of Singapore (August 9).
A get-together to mark the 53rd anniversary of Singapore’s National Day (August 9) was jointly held by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) and the city’s Vietnam-Singapore Friendship Association (VSFA) on August 8.
The Vietnam Tuong (classical drama) Theatre has staged a “tuong” play entitled “The legend of Redhill”, featuring Tuong artists of Vietnam and drama and dancing artists from Singapore.
Singapore’s worst cyber-attack in its history, in which personal information of about 1.5 million people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, was stolen, has the hallmarks of a state-linked group, said Singaporean Minister for Communications and Information S.Iswaran.
Singapore has started scanning travellers' eyes at some of its border checkpoints, in a trial of the expensive technology that could one day replace fingerprint verification.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Minh Khuong, a lecturer of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, spoke of the building of eminent public authorities in Singapore while giving a presentation in Hanoi on August 6, which was broadcast at 73 television sites nationwide.
Representatives from ASEAN partner countries have stated their commitments to support the bloc’s central role in the regional structure at the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 51) and related meetings in Singapore, which runs between July 30 and August 4.
Singaporean President Halimah Yacob met with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 51) and related meetings in Singapore on August 3, promising to deepen bilateral cooperation.
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must continue to enhance the open, inclusive and ASEAN-centred regional architecture, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.
China is willing to cooperate with Singapore to send clear messages of adhering to multilateralism and fighting against unilateralism and trade protectionism, stated Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a meeting with his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan in Singapore on August 1.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung has attended the Executive Committee of the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ)’s conference and the meeting between ASEAN foreign ministers and representatives from the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR).
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on August 1 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Vietnam-Singapore diplomatic ties.
Vietnam-Singapore strategic partnership
A Vietnamese Cultural Day was held in Singapore on July 31 night in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Vietnam-Singapore diplomatic ties (August 1) and five years of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries (September 1).
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh met with Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on July 31 as part of his ongoing official visit to the country.
