VOV.VN - The first half of the year witnessed Vietnam remain as the largest rice exporter to Singapore, accounting for 32.69% of the overall market share.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang hosted a reception on July 25 for his Singaporean counterpart Gan Kim Yong, who is in Hanoi to attend the funeral of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. ​

Statistics in the first half of this year show that for the first time, Vietnam’s fishery products maintained its position as the fifth largest partner in Singapore for the second consecutive quarter.

A working delegation from Singapore on July 12 visited agricultural farms in the Mekong Delta province of Long An to learn about food safety management policies, disease control and agricultural export certification process there.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore has advised Vietnamese exporters to carefully study and keep updated on new regulations in Singapore, a market that is becoming more cautious in trade policy, in order to further exploit this market.

Vietnam and Singapore have potential and advantages to promote fisheries cooperation, industry insiders said at a conference connecting fishery businesses of Vietnam and Singapore in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25.

Construction started on a Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in the central province of Ha Tinh on June 25.

Singapore electric vehicle (EV) charging firm Charge+ has teamed up with Porsche to launch a 1,700km EV charging network in Vietnam that links Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The Lang Son provincial People’s Committee and the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park and Township Development Joint Stock Company (VSIP JSC) on June 14 commenced the construction of VSIP Lang Son project – the 16th of its kind in Vietnam.

The Vietnam Golf Association (VGA) and its Singaporean counterpart have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in promoting the sport in the two countries.