🇳🇦 Thank you Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, Namibia’s Trade Minister for hosting us in your beautiful Land of the Brave. And congratulations to @AyorkorBotchwey on your appointment as Secretary-General of The Commonwealth.

At the inaugural Commonwealth Business Summit in Windhoek, Namibia. Our Commonwealth members account for 15% of global trade, and the value of intra-Commonwealth trade exceeded US$880B in 2024. We can and will do more for global trade.

Spoke about social cohesion in Singapore with @SyaOthmanCNA on @ChannelNewsAsia earlier this week. Oh and @ladygaga too.

Met with Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation @MusoniPaula in Kigali. Minister Paula is familiar with 🇸🇬 and works with Minister @joteo_ylm on digital and cybersecurity issues. We spoke about AI, digital adoption and how our digital and finance sectors can deepen cooperation🤝

🇷🇼🇸🇬A wide ranging discussion over lunch with National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) Governor @rwangombwajRW and Deputy Governor @SorayaMHlive in Kigali at the sidelines of the Inclusive FinTech Forum. @sopnendu

RT @EnvironmentRw: At the sidelines of @inclusIFF in Kigali, Minister @Dr_Uwamariya met with Singapore State Minister for Trade and industr….

🇸🇬🇮🇹⛴️ Welcomed Italy’s historic naval tall ship Amerigo Vespucci to Singapore, and met with Italy’s Deputy Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, @Vale_Valentini_

Thank you Minister @marciofrancasp and Bruno Quick for hosting us to a meeting on MSME development and collaboration. Minister França and I witnessed the signing of an MOU between Shopee & SEBRAE, which promotes digitalisation among Brazilian entrepreneurs and microenterprises.

An honour to meet @Pontifex at our intern religious dialogue this morning.

Delighted to host New South Wales Industry and Trade Minister Anoulack Chanthivong today. 🤝🇦🇺 . His visit underscores the strong bonds between SG and NSW and paves the way for us to work deeper on issues like energy, tech and innovation, food, fintech and supply chains. 💡⚡️🌱

🇪🇪🇸🇬 We met with President @AlarKaris and Prime Minister @kajakallas yesterday in Estonia, as a member of President @Tharman_S’s delegation. Singapore enjoys a warm relationship with Estonia, and trade between our countries is growing. 📈. 📷: @SingaporeMCI

Visited Helsinki, where we had the honour of being hosted by Finnish President @alexstubb and his team. Looking forward to exploring new pathways to facilitate commercial linkages between our countries in areas such as the circular economy. 📷: @SingaporeMCI

🧱Building a strong, vibrant, innovative economy will help secure Singapore’s future in a more tumultuous world. @MTI_Sg is at the forefront of: . 🌱GROWING our economy, 🔓UNLOCKING potential in resources,🦋TRANSFORMING our sectors, 🤝CONNECTING more widely and deeply globally.

🇸🇬🇨🇴Hosted Santiago de Cali Mayor @alejoeder and his team. Mayor Eder and I discussed how we can collaborate. I suggested that we work through existing platforms to make impact. Santiago de Cali will host #COP16 on biodiversity in Oct and I wished them all the best. 👍

🇸🇬🇺🇸 We had a series of productive meetings with Cabinet officials of the Biden Administration in Washington DC yesterday, including with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Commerce Secretary @SecRaimondo. (📸: MCI Photos by Ngau Kai Yan)

RT @SingaporeMCI: The promotion of trustworthy and responsible AI use and innovation were among issues discussed at the first US-SG Dialogu….

RT @SingaporeMCI: Opportunities for public-private exchanges & partnerships were also discussed at the SG-US Business Roundtable on AI Safe….

We launched 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 inaugural Critical and Emerging Technologies Dialogue with @JakeSullivan46 and his team this week.

Congratulations President Tharman Shanmugaratnam! . Singapore is blessed to have in President Tharman one of the best minds, and most caring of hearts to serve as our republic’s 9th president. Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬

🇦🇺🇸🇬 Hosted Australian High Commissioner to Singapore, Allaster Cox. Spoke about our increasingly digitalised society, the progress we’ve made in our digital economies & collaboration in areas like AI, e-invoicing, consumer protection, personal data protection, arts & culture