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President leaves to attend state funeral of late Japanese PM Abe Shinzo
Updated: 22:18, 25/09/2022
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on September 25 to attend the state funeral of late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Tokyo, Japan, from September 25 to 28.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. |
The President is accompanied by the members of the Party Central Committee: Chairman of the Presidential Office Le Khanh Hai, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee Vu Hai Ha; along with leaders of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) of Vietnam proposed that the Japanese side consider the exemption of Vietnamese interns from residence tax and income tax.
The Vietnam-Japan relationship has been on the rise. Japan is Vietnam's leading official development assistance provider, third largest investor, third biggest source of tourists, and fourth trade partner of the Southeast Asian nation.
A forum discussing Vietnam’s business environment was held in Japan’s prefecture of Kanagawa on September 9.
For the first time, Vietnam's ST25 rice has been used to process dishes on the menu of the Japanese Cabinet Office, Minister of Agricultural and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan has said at the recent government meeting.
Japan officially reopened its borders to tourists from Vietnam from Wednesday and exempted quarantine and Covid tests for those with three shots of an approved Covid vaccine.
Source: NDO
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