Dai-ichi Life Japan Corporation donated US$15,000 to the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients of HCMC to assist in the ‘Bringing the Light to the Poor Blind’ program on the fifth Anniversary of Dai-ichi Life Vietnam.
The city’s Ben Thanh Theater hosts a mouth-watering performance by Jazz band unit asia on Sunday.
Hiromi Pham, a Vietnamese-Japanese semiprofessional model, beat nine other contestants to win the “Miss Vietnam in Japan” title in Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo, on January 28.
Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical Co will set up two companies specialising in manufacturing silicone-based materials for high-brightness LED lights, and refining rare earth minerals, with a total investment of 5 billion JPY (roughly 64 million USD).
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has extended his best wishes to Vietnamese people in Canada and in the world on the occasion of Vietnam ’s Lunar New Year festival.
Unit Asia, a jazz group from Japan will have their first concert in Vietnam on February 3 and 5 in Hanoi and HCM City, respectively.
Despite significant growth in disbursement of ODA (official development assistance) loans from Japan in recent years, the work has been hindered by site clearance-related issues, the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) has said.
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Japanese energy firm Inpex and French giant Total on Friday announced a huge US$34 billion gas project in Australia, as Tokyo looks for alternatives to nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster
National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu said he believed Japanese Justice Minister Hiraoka Hideo’s visit to Vietnam will contribute to strengthening the Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership.
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Tuoitrenews briefs some of salient news published today, January 11, on Vietnamese media:
The exclusively Vietnamese custom of people in certain fishing villages worshipping whales is certainly not a thing of the past.
Hanoi has begun to modernise old air-quality monitoring stations this year under a plan approved by the Hanoi People's Committee.
