Vol 4 (AAC) No 4 | SINGAPORE Christina Tan 28th February 2011 Vice-Chairperson of the Africa Business Group, Singapore Business Federation President Paul Kagame‘s moves to turn Rwanda into ‘the Singapore of Africa’, a financial and information technology hub, have captured the city-state’s attention. Businesswoman Chr...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 2 | SINGAPORECENTRAL AFRICA Triangular trade 28th December 2010 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 De...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | SINGAPORE Lee Yi Shyan 17th August 2010 Minister of State for Trade & Industry Singapore is making a renewed effort to boost its African trade. It falls to the Minister of Trade and Industry (MTI), Lee Yi Shyan, to make that happen. In July, the Minister pr...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | GHANASINGAPORE Kofi Annan 15th March 2010 former United Nations Secretary General and Professor, National University of Singapore Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking African advocacy directly to Asia, as he takes up his appointment as Li Ka-shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School o...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | RWANDASINGAPORE Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun 27th March 2009 Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) Rwandan President Paul Kagame has secured Singapore's interest in Rwanda's future. Singapore Cooperation Enterprise's Chief Executive Officer, Alphonsus Chia, was in Kigali in F...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 3 | MALAYSIASOUTH KOREATHAILANDSINGAPOREINDONESIAVIETNAMAFRICA Ploughing new fields 30th January 2009 Asia's smaller states look to agricultural cooperation with Africa for mutually beneficial trade Cambodia's diplomatic reach in Africa is extremely limited but its rice exports are expanding fast despite questions about their quality. With a record surplus of over 2.8 millio...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 8 | SINGAPOREAFRICA The wealthy autocratic model 6th November 2008 The city-state releases Africa's potential with skillful aid and trade An island at the heart of Southeast Asia and a landlocked state in the heart of Africa are an unlikely couple. Singapore has skyscrapers and strict discipline, Rwanda has its gre...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 8 | SINGAPOREAFRICA Singapore's Africa Team 6th November 2008 The city-state has assembled a good squad of players in Africa President S.R. Nathan: took office in 1997, and in April 2007 became the first Singaporean President to go to Africa, with state visits to South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, and ...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 4 | SINGAPORE Suppiah Dhanabalan 6th November 2008 Chairman, Temasek Holdings and DBS In the elite circles of Singaporean business, certain names frequently recur. Suppiah ‘S’ Dhanabalan, Chairman of Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singa...