ShowFxAsia is fully presented across all Asia. ShowFxAsia events unite huge number of professionals of forex-community under its brand. At present the list of the basic places of conducting of exhibitions and seminars from ShowFxAsia includes all largest cities of Asia, however the list will be constantly extend. However Singapore is already an obligatory city for conducting meetings of Forex market participants.

Singapore is highly developed country with market economy and low taxation where transnational corporations play an important role. Gross national product per capita — is one of the highest in the world. In a ranking of competitiveness WEF the economy of Singapore has occupied 7th place among 131 countries in 2007 (in 2006 – 5th place).

Singapore is ranked as East Asian "tigers" for fast economy’s level jump to the level of developed countries. Electronics manufactures (as many known European, American, Japanese companies, and Singapore, for example Flextronics), shipbuilding, sector of financial services are developed in the country. It is one of the largest manufacturers of CDs-drives. Also there conducted scale researches in a field of biotechnologies.

Singapore airlines are widely known all around the world, Singapore holding Raffles owns the international hotels network Swissotel.

The economy strongly depends on export, especially in consumer electronics, information technology, and pharmaceutics. Singapore is the largest trading power of region. Volume of foreign trade (2008) — is approximately 455,3 bln US dollar. Export — 235.8 bln dollars, including production of electronic and electro technical industry, consumer goods, products of processing of natural rubber, oil product. Basically went to Malaysia (12.9 %), Hong Kong (10.5 %), Indonesia (9,8 %), China (9,7 %), the USA (8,9 %), Japan (4,8 %), Thailand (4,1 %) (2007). Import — 219,5 bln dollars: cars and equipment, fuel, chemical goods, the foodstuffs. The main partners in import: Malaysia (13.1 %), the USA (12.5 %), China (12.1 %), Japan (8.2 %), Taiwan (5.9 %), Indonesia (5.6 %), South Korea (4.9 %) (2007). Real growth of GDP for the period between 2004 and 2007 is about 7 %, but has decreased to 1,2 % in 2008 as a result of global financial crisis. Inflation — 2.3 % (2008).

Advantages: a favorable investment climate, competitive environment, leading places in ratings of economic freedom, highly educated and the disciplined population, arisen standard of well-being.

Weaknesses: dependence on deliveries of water from Malaysia. Almost all foodstuffs and energy are imported. Deficiency of experts. Crisis of the world electronics market has led to recession in 2001. Deficiency of the areas.

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Official languages: English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil

Population: 4,9 million

Currency: Singapore dollar

Internet domain: .sg

Phone code: +65

Time zones: UTC +8