The figure helped the labour industry reach the finish line one year earlier than in its five-year plan for 2016-2020.

This is the fifth consecutive year in which labour exports have exceeded 115,000 since 2015.

Vietnamese nursing candidates were trained to work abroad in Japan.

After four years, Vietnam has sent over 550,000 workers abroad, up 10%.

Japan continued to maintain the largest recipient of Vietnamese workers, followed by Chinese Taipei and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

According to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Tan Dung, the labour sector has made efforts to maintain and develop the overseas labour market. Many new and potential markets in Asia have been expanded.

The quality of the programmes sending laborers to work abroad under contracts have been improved, attracting more highly skilled workers.

The number of workers to markets with high income, such as Japan and the RoK, has been continuously increased.

Workers were very interested in many labour migration programmes, including the licensing for foreign workers of the RoK (EPS program), technical internships in Japan (IM Japan Programme), sending Vietnamese nurses to work in Germany.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam receives Cuban guest

Vietnam is willing to share experience in national construction and development with Cuba to help the country realise its reform targets in an efficient and prompt manner, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said.

Job opportunities for guest workers back from ROK and Japan

Vietnamese guest workers who returned home from the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan will be offered with further opportunities to work for enterprises from the two countries at an upcoming job festival in early September.

Focusing on prevention of illegal guest worker

(BGO) – The competent forces in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province have recently detected nearly 2,000 labors illegally working abroad.  

Japan largest market for Vietnamese guest workers

Receiving more than 7,100 Vietnamese guest workers in March, Japan is the largest market for this group of job seekers, according to the statistics from the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Over 130,000 labourers head overseas for work in 11 months

Vietnam sent 132,802 labourers to work abroad in the first 11 months of 2019, according to the Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS).

Source: NDO