Singapore

Singapore
Population:	4401
Debt:	$25.59 billion
Overview:	As a hub of global shipping and food processing companies, the island nation sent its largest trade delegation ever to Africa in October 2009. The group visited Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in October 2009 to drum up business.

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Found 13 articles.

Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

China Sonangol is open for business

Transparency has not been a major feature of China Sonangol’s and China International Fund’s activities in Africa, but one of the investment vehicles is now embarking on a human-resources drive to bring in professional staff to run the company less l...

Vol 4 No 9
July 2011

Sellapan Ramanathan

President

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

Big plans, small city-state

Singapore is widening its net in Africa. The city-state’s trade with sub-Saharan Africa reached US$8.4 billion in 2009 and it punches above its weight in financial terms. Geographically smaller than either Mauritius or São Tomé e Príncipe, Singapore boast...

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

Trucks, triads and subs

Few believe the official explanation that 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s frequent visits to Singapore are to monitor his February cataract operation or that he is being the doting husband to his injured wife, Grace. Equally few believe that the sim...

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Christina Tan

Vice-Chairperson of the Africa Business Group, Singapore Business Federation

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

Triangular trade

With the other Asian powers vying for business elsewhere, Singapore has focused on two sluggish oil-producing countries in Central Africa: Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s government is pushing for the development of three spe...

Vol 3 No 10
August 2010

Lee Yi Shyan

Minister of State for Trade & Industry

Vol 3 No 5
March 2010

Kofi Annan

former United Nations Secretary General and Professor, National University of Singapore

Vol 2 No 5
March 2009

Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun

Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE)

Vol 2 No 3
January 2009

Ploughing new fields

Asia's smaller states look to agricultural cooperation with Africa for mutually beneficial trade

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