26-02-2013 10:55
The door to work in Korea in 2013 has widened for Vietnamese labourers.
10-01-2013 15:00
The numbers of Vietnamese workers to be employed abroad is likely to drop this year on the back of falling overseas demand.
13-09-2012 17:01
Vietnamese ambassador in Japan Doan Xuan Hung expects the Vietnam-Japan Meeting 2012 slated to take place in Japan from September 13-17 to beef up strategic partnership relations to a level commensurate with each country’s potential.
30-08-2012 13:57
Ensuring social insurance fund payment stability remains a pressing question.
20-07-2012 18:34
Labour export’s dark side is under the spotlight. Around 90 per cent of export labourers returning home face debt problems and high-paid labour export markets are afraid of absconders.
21-10-2011 14:37
Hanoi has posted buoyant investment figures in the first nine months of 2011, but investment authorities are closely watching foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the city.
01-09-2011 09:38
The spotlight has fallen on vast numbers of unlicensed foreign labourers working across the country. The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee deputy chairman Dang Nhu Loi tells VIR how the problem can be addressed.
22-08-2011 16:51
A recent minimum wage hike proposal has been well received by industry insiders.
08-08-2011 16:46
The Vietnamese government just green-lighted Vietnam’s human resources development planning for 2011-2020. National Assembly’s Committee on Culture, Education, Youth and Teenage deputy chairman Nguyen Minh Thuyet tells VIR about its planning.
03-08-2011 15:59
Many firms are still evading social insurance payments.
22-07-2011 11:07
Hanoi needs $190 billion to make the city’s development planning for 2011-2020 come true given its current intensive efforts to woo investment capital through the public-private partnership (PPP) model and maintain current growth, Hanoi People Council’s Economics and Budget Department head Nguyen Van Nam tells VIR.
28-06-2011 17:05
Vietnamese workers going to Japan rose sharply in the past months.
31-05-2011 17:15
Authorities are considering taking the sting out of workers’ strikes through diverse support schemes.
19-02-2011 08:00
State authorities are working on a state sector wage reform draft to make the current wage regime more compatible to actual practices.
18-02-2011 09:58
Vietnam expects labour export numbers in 2011 to beat 2010’s figures with positive news in early 2011.