Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is leading a high-level delegation of Vietnam to attend the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo and visit Japan from October 8-10. The trip is hoped to help lift bilateral trade to 60 billion USD in 2020.
The international community continued to provide relief aid for Indonesia whose Central Sulawesi province was hardly hit by strong earthquakes and tsunami ten days ago.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will chair the Mekong-Japan summit slated for October 9 in Tokyo with the participation of the leaders of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, according to Kyodo News.
Vietnamese workers are becoming an important source of workforce in Japan. Especially, young Vietnamese workers are said to be diligent and eager for learning.
Japan-Kuwait joint venture Idemitsu Q8, the first 100-percent-foreign-owned oil & gas retail company in Vietnam, has opened its third petrol station in the northern province of Hung Yen.
Ho Chi Minh City has bolstered its cooperative ties with Japan on the foundation of the thriving Vietnam-Japan relations over the past 45 years since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1973.
Japan ICT Day 2018 themed “Vietnam – Japan IT Cooperation in the 4th Industrial Revolution” will take place in Hanoi and the central city of Da Nang from August 28-31.
Vietnamese guest workers in foreign countries have contributed to reducing poverty in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long but the number of workers abroad still remains low, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong held a meeting on August 10 with visiting Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Nakane, who said his country wants to further promote concrete cooperation projects with the city.
A shortage of IT personnel has prompted Japan to adopt measures to attract foreign talents in the field, which opens up opportunities for Vietnamese IT engineers and firms.
The Japan-Vietnam Economic Committee under the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) has made significant contributions to the thriving bilateral relations between the two countries, especially in terms of the implementation of the Vietnam-Japan Joint Initiative, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 31.
Japanese businesses have been working with Vietnamese partners in technology transfer and equipment manufacturing, as well as increasing investments in precision mechanics.
A wide range of intelligent machinery, equipment and solutions for the manufacturing value chain are on display at the International Precision Engineering, Machine Tools and Metalworking Exhibition which opened on July 3 in HCM City.
The ASEAN Car Business Career Company of Japan plans to recruit more than 220 automobile engineering students from Da Nang-based Dong A College to work in the Japanese car industry later this year.
Japanese companies have warmly applauded Malaysia's move to abolish an unpopular goods and services tax (GST) as a step to spur consumer demand in the Southeast Asian country.
A conference took place in Can Tho city on April 18 to connect Japanese partners with the Mekong Delta, where the presence of foreign businesses, including Japanese ones, is still modest compared to other regions of Vietnam.
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