Japanese Market

Japanese market wide open to local businesses

Vietnam has enjoyed a trade surplus with Japan two years in a row after signing the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement in 2009.

Partnership deal helps drive Viet Nam-Japan trade: forum

The Viet Nam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA) that took effect in October 2009 has significantly increased trade between the two countries, a conference heard in HCM City yesterday.

Confab urges renewed focus on Japan market

The Japanese market was one that carries high potential for Vietnamese firms, but it was also a challenging one, speakers said at a conference held yesterday in HCM City.

Japan buys more Vietnamese goods after disaster

Vietnamese exports to the Japanese market have surged as Japanese demands have increase after the earthquake and tsunami disaster and many trade barriers have been reduced

Opportunity to boost seafood exports to Japan

The sharply increasing demand for clean food, including seafood, in Japan is considered a good chance for Vietnamese businesses to increase exports to this market.

Bracing Onese lf For The Future

Some 200 Vietnamese businesses have sent seafood shipments to Japan, mainly shrimp, on a regular basis. Following the earthquake disaster in Japan, will these businesses be adversely affected?

HCM City trade centre puts focus on US, Japanese export markets

The HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) has identified the US and Japan as the largest markets for exports this year, the ITPC director said on Wednesday.

Seminar seeks to increase handicraft exports to Japan

Vietnamese firms should pay more attention to to designing and creating unique handicraft products to boost exports to Japan

Unique design key to Japanese market

While Japan stands as one of Viet Nam's largest importers of handicrafts, there is still potential to further increase sales in that particular market, according to Do Kim Lang, deputy director of the Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade's.

Seminar seeks to increase handicraft exports to Japan

Vietnamese businesses need to pay more attention to designing and creating unique handicraft products in order to boost exports to the Japanese market and increase their competitiveness over rivals from China , India and Myanmar , say Japanese experts.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of