Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his spouse will pay an official visit to Viet Nam from 21-24 March .

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Source: VNA)

The visit was made at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The relations between the two countries began in the 1990s and developed into strategic partnership in 2013.

Singapore is Viet Nam’s third largest foreign investor, with a total investment of over 38 billion USD poured into 1,600 projects in terms of processing, technology, production, real estate, construction, transport and logistics.

The country is also the 12th biggest trade partner of Viet Nam, with two-way trade doubling in the last decade, hitting nearly 16 billion USD in 2016.

(Source: VNA)