APEC Year 2017, with the freshly-concluded APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city the highlight, was comprehensively successful, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh told the media on November 13. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh gives an interview about the outcomes of APEC Year 2017  Comprehensive success He elaborated that the comprehensive su

Japan has high expectation of the leadership of Vietnam as the host of the APEC 2017 Economic Leaders’ Meeting, and Japan, also an APEC member, will contribute to APEC discussions, a Japanese official has said.Tsutomu Koizumi, deputy head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Economic Affairs Bureau, told a Tokyo-based Vietnam News Agency reporter that his country will continue to cooperate and suppo

Seventy-six new products of Japan have recently been brought into the Vietnamese market, according to the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).The products are in four groups, namely confectionery, beverage, ice cream and comic books.They will be sold at 254 convenience stores and trade centres of FamilyMart and Ministop. Takimoto Koji, JETRO Chief Representative in Ho Chi Minh City, said 70

A Vietnam Festival with the theme of “Feel Vietnam” took place in Yokohama city of Kanagawa Prefecture on September 16 and 17, marking it as one of the largest Vietnamese festivals in Japan. The Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa Prefecture has attracted thousands of Japanese and international visitors The event was attended by Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Vietn

The embassies of Vietnam and Laos in Japan held a people-to-people exchange programme in Tokyo on August 10 to mark the 55th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties and 40 years since the Treaty on Amity and Cooperation was signed. Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong highlighted the close friendship and solidarity between Vietnam and Laos. In Japan, the bilateral tie were illustrate