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The Vietnamese Labourers Management Board in Japan has been working closely with Japanese authorities to protect the health of Vietnamese trainees in the context of the complicated developments of the acute respiratory illness COVID-19.

All passengers, crewmembers and staff, who had contact with a Japanese passenger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Vietnam Airlines’ VN340 flight, have been put into quarantine, the Health Ministry reported on March 4.

There has been no COVID-19 case among Vietnamese technical trainees in Japan so far, an official from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) confirmed.

Leading Japanese retail group AEON will invest 2 billion USD to expand its network of commercial centres in Vietnam, raising the total to 25, according to General Director of AEONMALL Vietnam Iwamura Yasutsugu.

General Yamazaki Koji, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff of Japan Self-Defence Forces (SDF), is paying an official visit to Vietnam from March 1 to 4.

Five Vietnamese sailors were reported missing after a cargo vessel sank off the coast of Aomori prefecture in Japan on February 29, according to a Vietnamese official.

Japan’s authorities in some prefectures where people are confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) are providing multilingual information services, including in Vietnamese, to support foreigners visiting or living in the country.

Miki House, a Japanese children’s clothing and product company, opened its first store in Vietnam on February 25.

FAVIJA Olympic Tokyo, the biggest-ever football championship for Vietnamese in Japan, recently kicked off at the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan.

Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, on February 24 hosted a reception for Takebe Tsutomu, Special Advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance (JVFPA).

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has announced that it lifted its ban on food imported from the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima in January 2020.

Services and retail are forecast to attract a large amount of Japanese direct investment into Vietnam this year.

Japan will set up a framework for working with Malaysia in producing aircraft parts and training aviation industry personnel, its first such cooperation in Asia, government sources have said.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong has extended a message of congratulations to Japanese Emperor Naruhito on his birthday (February 23, 1960).