Japanese precision chemistry firm Fujifilm Corp. is planning to expand its production facilities in Vietnam to make SARS-CoV-2 antigen test kits to serve the global markets.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has expressed his hope that the city and Japan’s Nagano prefecture will have more specific cooperation programmes in the time ahead.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 14 expressed his delight at the development of the Vietnam–Japan extensive strategic partnership in diverse areas, not only at central but local level also.
Officials of Ho Chi Minh City met with leaders of Japan’s Nagano prefecture on April 10, expressing their willingness to step up bilateral cooperation in agriculture, hi-tech industry, vocational training, education and health care.
Ho Chi Minh City and Nagano Prefecture of Japan need to boost economic ties for their development, agreed the two sides’ leaders at a meeting in Vietnam’s southern economic hub on October 26.
President Tran Dai Quang proposed Japan's Nagano prefecture support Vietnamese localities to develop human resources training in hi-tech agriculture while receiving Governor Shui Chi Abe in Hanoi.