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| On February 9, an official welcome ceremony was held by Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong for his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| This is the first trip to Singapore by a head of the Vietnamese Government over the past five years, taking place at a time when the Vietnam-Singapore strategic partnership is developing strongly and dynamically across all fields. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| This year, the two countries are celebrating the 50th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations and 10 years of their strategic partnership. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| The two nations have regularly and effectively maintained high and all-level delegation exchanges and meetings, along with expanding defence and security cooperation. Collaboration in other areas such as education, culture, and tourism has also been bolstered through specific agreements and memoranda of understanding. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| Singapore is now Vietnam’s top important economic partner in the region, with two-way trade nearing 9 billion USD last year, up 10.1% year-on year. The island state leads ASEAN and ranks second among 141 countries and territories investing in Vietnam with 3,032 valid projects worth 70.39 billion USD. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| At present, 12 Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIP) in nine Vietnamese cities and provinces have an occupancy rate of around 83.2%, attracting 17.6 billion USD for some 900 projects and generating roughly 300,000 jobs. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| Vietnam and Singapore have worked closely together on regional and international matters of shared concern, including the East Sea issue, while strengthening cooperation at multilateral organisations and forums such as the United Nations (UN), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
In recent high-level visits, leaders of the two nations agreed on a number of major cooperation directions, especially in new areas such as the digital economy, digital transformation, regional and global supply chain connections, the building of the green economy, sustainable development, and cooperation in the production chain.
Prime Minister Chinh’s visit to Singapore aims to lift Vietnam-Singapore economic connectivity to a new height in the context that a series of new-generation free trade deals joined by the two nations have taken effect, including the CPTPP and RCEP.
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| As scheduled, after the official welcome ceremony, Prime Minister Chinh will have meetings with Singaporean President Halimah Yacob, hold talks with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and witness the exchange of cooperation agreements between the two countries. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Spouse offered flowers in tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his Statue in the Asian Civilizations Museum (ACM). (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
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| On the same day morning, the Vietnamese leader and his Spouse visited the Singapore Botanic Gardens which serves research and preservation of more than 30,000 species of plants. PM Chinh attended a ceremony to name a new orchid species "Pham Le Tran Chinh", the hybrid orchid symbolises a strong vitality. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
