Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Ba Hoan has proposed Japan’s Wakayama prefecture pay more attention to vocational training and welfare of Vietnamese guest workers living there.
Fifteen Japanese firms chose Vietnam as the destination for their production expansion within the Japanese government’s program to support Japanese firms to diversify their value chains in foreign countries, according to the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).
Businesses of Japan’s Chiba prefecture joined a working session with the People’s Committee of the northern province of Ha Nam on November 20 to explore the province’s investment climate.
Survey conducted by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) showed that 65.3 percent of 787 Japanese companies operating in Vietnam achieved high profits in 2018.
Japanese businesses have paid the most interest in environment-life field including traffic jam and flooding in HCMC, said Mr. Pham Thiet Hoa, director of HCMC Investment and Trade Promotion Center (IPTC) on November 18.
Japanese businesses yesterday proposed Vietnamese authorized agencies to make more efforts in administrative reform, reduce customs clearance time to fruits and vegetables from currently 3-4 days to one day and animal and plant quarantine time from nine to five days to ensure import product quality.
Japanese firms are looking for partners and expanding support industry supply chains in HCMC, said the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in HCMC yesterday.
The Vietnam-Japan Investment Cooperation Forum was held on September 15 in Yokohama by Kanagawa Prefecture in collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Embassy of Vietnam in Japan.
