Hosting a reception for Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Nagoya city of Aichi prefecture Professor Nagato Natsume on December 28, Phong hailed the Japanese locality’s plan to open its trade office in Ho Chi Minh City, open a direct flight connecting Nagoya city with the Vietnamese southern hub, and establish an umbilical cord blood bank at Tu Du hospital.

Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (R) and Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Nagoya city of Aichi prefecture Professor Nagato Natsume.

He said that the move helps bolster trade and cultural exchange as well as develop tourism, particularly medical tourism.

The HCM City leader took the occasion to thank Nagato Natsume, who is also Director of the Japanese Cleft Palate Foundation, for his help for Vietnamese children with cleft palate, blindness and blood cancer.

He expressed his hope that in the role as the Honorary Consul of Vietnam, Nagato Natsume will continue his efforts to enhance the relations between Vietnam and Japan in general and Ho Chi Minh City and Aichi prefecture in particular.

The Japanese guest, for his part, said that he will work to enhance and carry out collaborative programmes, especially those in the economy, labour cooperation, citizen protection, education and healthcare, between the two localities in an effective manner.

Many Vietnamese students are living and pursuing study in Aichi while the prefecture is in need of young human resources with a great capacity to work at its enterprises and factories, he stressed.

Currently, there are some 200 businesses from Aichi investing in Vietnam, and some 23,000 Vietnamese people are working and studying in the Japanese locality.

Southeast Asia-Japan youth ship arrives in HCM City

The 45th Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Programme (SSEAYP) docked at Cat Lai Port in Ho Chi Minh City on December 2 with 326 young delegates from ten ASEAN countries, including 29 from Vietnam.

 

Hue students receive scholarships from Japan

Twenty disadvantaged students with outstanding academic results of the Hue University received Japanese-funded scholarships worth 300 USD each at a ceremony held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on December 3.

 

Japan helps to promote financial services for Vietnamese women

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Vietnam Office and the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) signed a record of discussions for the “project of promoting gender-responsive financial inclusion through the Vietnam Women’s Union” in Hanoi on November 28.

 

Over 1,100 job positions offered for overseas labourers returning from ROK, Japan

Nearly 1,160 working positions with high incomes are being offered to Vietnamese overseas laborers who have returned home after completing their contracts in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan.

 

Vietnam, Japan promote medical academic exchange

An exchange between medical students of Vietnam and Japan was held in Hanoi on November 23, aiming to further enhance medical cooperation and academic exchange between the two countries. 

 

Source: VNA