Local agricultural products struggled to enter China last year due to its tightened import requirements.

Thirty Vietnamese enterprises have sold goods on Amazon, reported the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade).

Vietnam's pharmaceutical market has a lot of potential coming from the demographics, rising income and priority policies of the government.

In the wake of an ageing population and the narrowing domestic market, Japanese businesses are expanding to the new fields of digital technology, healthcare, the Internet of Things, and services across the ASEAN, including in Vietnam. 

Vietnam’s wood exports are predicted to reach US$12 billion during the course of 2020 following the wood processing industry’s great success during 2019, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam’s sport sector will strive to have more athletes eligible to compete at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 in Japan, heard a conference of the Vietnam Sports Administration in Hanoi this week.

Legal uncertainty in public-private partnerships, supporting industries, and manpower needs further changes to facilitate a new wave of Japanese investment in the coming months. 

Foreign investment in six priority industries under the industrialization strategy accounted for 27% of total registered capital in Vietnam from 2013 to March 2019, focusing on electronics, automobiles and energy saving.

The forestry sector expects to earn an estimated 11.3 billion USD from exports this year, a year-on-year rise of 20 percent, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan.

Japan has announced it will become Vietnam’s new litchi buyer for the 2020 crop, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported.

A Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival will be held for the first time in Fukuoka, the largest city in Japan’s Kyushu island, on January 12, 2020.

The first flagship store of Japan’s Matsumoto Kiyoshi cosmetics and drugstore chain is set to open in Vietnam late March.

The Ho Chi Minh City International Music Festival 2019 (HOZO 2019) kicked off at the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, District 1, HCM City on December 13.

The Japan Environment and Business Organization (JEBO) has yet to seek permission from the government of Hanoi to clean up a section of the To Lich River and has tendered an apology to the municipal chairman over the misunderstanding.

Commander of the Vietnamese navy Vice Admiral Pham Hoai Nam held talks with Chief of Staff of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF) Admiral Yamamura Hiroshi in Hanoi on December 10.

Uniqlo, a global apparel retailer from Japan, opened its first store in Vietnam on Dong Khoi, a high-end shopping street in HCMC’s District 1 on December 6, with hundreds of fashion lovers turning out to mark the launch of the store.

The move is aimed to help develop the automotive supporting industries, particularly as Vietnam still has to import massive basic materials for domestic car production.

The public capital must be allocated based on market principles, said an expert.

Japan’s immigration services agency has advised the Vietnamese people to read the Guidebook on Living and Working in Japan to learn more about Japanese regulations on labor, insurance and salary.

A Vietnamese delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, is attending the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nagoya city in Aichi prefecture of Japan.