Singapore Population : 5.5 million Official languages: English / Malay / Mandarin / Tamil
As a city-state, Singapore is very small in size, covering barely 719 km2. It has provided the infrastructure needed for service sector and investment in the region. (The biggest petroleum refinery in Asia is registered in Singapore). Moreover, Singapore is located at the marine route connecting East Asia and Europe, thus its container ports are one of the busiest in the world, in terms of tonnage and number of containers.
In terms of manufacturing, Singapore focuses on production of electronic products and of computation, pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology.
Singapore has signed free-trade treaties with serveral countries, such as Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Panamá and Peru.
Important Trade show:
Seafood Expo Asia: 14 - 16 Sept 2022
Jewellery and Germ World Singapore: 27 - 30 Sept 2022
Franchising and Licensing Asia (FL Asia): 27 - 29 October 2022. If you are looking foward to extending your franchises to Asia, you should visit this fair in Singapore. It is the most important fair of its field in Asia and Middle-East, and much better than the other franchising trade show in Hong Kong.