Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Mai Phuoc Dung speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)

The event is jointly organised by the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore.
In his virtual speech at the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said the "hybrid" expo, which is organised in both in-person and online forms, is one of the effective new approaches, especially amid complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
This event will be an important milestone for agricultural and food trade cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore, a premise to affirm cooperative spirit of a Memorandum of Understanding expected to be signed by the Ministries of Industry and Trade of the two countries in the coming time.
Nearly 40 Vietnamese enterprises are exhibiting about 500 high-quality food brands at the event, which will last until August 28.
In the framework of the expo, an online trade conference for Halal products and processed foods of Vietnam and Singapore, and an offline business-to-business (B2B) matching event will be organised, enabling businesses of both sides to interact and exchange information on benefits of free trade agreements, products and other business procedures.