Japan to ease curbs on short-term business travel with Vietnam


Visitors posing for photographs next to a sculpture titled "Land Genie" by Vietnamese artist Pham Thai Binh, whose statement on the piece described the "pandemic time" and which appears to be holding a coronavirus particle, during the Hanoi-Saigon sculpture exhibition in Hanoi on Sunday (Oct 11, 2020). - AFP

TOKYO, Oct 12 (Reuters): Japan and Vietnam will allow short-term business travel with each other as they aim to boost their economies following travel curbs to rein in the coronavirus, the Yomiuri daily has reported.

The pact, which will take effect by the end of October at the earliest, follows similar steps to ease travel restrictions to Singapore and South Korea, the paper added.

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