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Without career guidance, university feels like a waste for many parents

Without career guidance, university feels like a waste for many parents

In rural Vietnam, parents once dreamed of their children attending university to escape a life of farming. However, more parents now see labor export as a more viable path to success.
Korean proficiency exams for workers employ strict measures

Korean proficiency exams for workers employ strict measures

South Korea employment scheme blacklists areas with visa overstayers

South Korea employment scheme blacklists areas with visa overstayers

Jostling for jobs in South Korea, Vietnamese workers step on each other's toes

Jostling for jobs in South Korea, Vietnamese workers step on each other's toes

Both Hai in the northern-central Ha Tinh Province and Thang in Hanoi have the same dream: to go to South Korea to work.
October 2, 2022 | 05:02 pm PT
South Korea stops receiving Quang Binh residents after contract breaches

South Korea stops receiving Quang Binh residents after contract breaches

With 34 laborers breaking their contracts to stay and work illegally in South Korea, the central province of Quang Binh Province cannot send more workers there.
September 20, 2022 | 06:37 pm PT
Low skill, minimum pay: Vietnamese workers languish abroad

Low skill, minimum pay: Vietnamese workers languish abroad

When Luong Xuan Hoi first went to Japan to work in 2018 he ate mostly salmon head and rice for a year, two of the cheapest food items there.
September 15, 2022 | 05:13 pm PT
Covid-19 impact on remittances negligible

Covid-19 impact on remittances negligible

Vietnam received $15.7 billion remittances in 2020, placing it among the world's top 10 recipient countries.
January 24, 2021 | 05:00 pm PT
Pandemic cuts demand for overseas jobs

Pandemic cuts demand for overseas jobs

Vietnam’s labor export has plunged this year due to pandemic imposed travel restrictions and fear of contracting the virus abroad.
November 4, 2020 | 12:18 am PT
10 jailed in Vietnam over tourist disappearance scandal in Taiwan

10 jailed in Vietnam over tourist disappearance scandal in Taiwan

A HCMC court on Tuesday sentenced 10 members of a gang to up to 10 years in jail for organizing for 128 people to go to work in Taiwan illegally.
September 15, 2020 | 11:19 pm PT
Number of Vietnamese workers going abroad falls by 40 pct in H1

Number of Vietnamese workers going abroad falls by 40 pct in H1

Vietnam sent 33,500 guest workers overseas in the first half, a 40 percent year-on-year decline due to travel restrictions to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
July 2, 2020 | 06:00 pm PT
The pandemic effect on undocumented migration

The pandemic effect on undocumented migration

Covid-19 has exposed the vulnerability of irregular Vietnamese migrants, driven by survival to risk life and limb.
May 6, 2020 | 10:00 pm PT
New decree to protect Vietnamese abroad from hazardous employ

New decree to protect Vietnamese abroad from hazardous employ

Vietnamese will be banned from working seven types of dangerous jobs while overseas, including massage, under a government decree effective May 20.
April 29, 2020 | 01:29 am PT
Japan, Taiwan dominate Vietnamese labor imports in 2019

Japan, Taiwan dominate Vietnamese labor imports in 2019

As many as 134,482 of the 147,387 Vietnamese workers who went abroad in 2019 were hired in Japan and Taiwan, official statistics show.
January 2, 2020 | 06:24 pm PT
First bodies of UK truck victims arrive in Vietnam

First bodies of UK truck victims arrive in Vietnam

16 of 39 Vietnamese citizens killed in the U.K. truck tragedy last month were repatriated on Wednesday morning.
November 26, 2019 | 03:52 pm PT
British authorities charge another suspect in Vietnamese deaths

British authorities charge another suspect in Vietnamese deaths

The U.K. police have charged another man with human trafficking in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese in a container truck last month.
November 24, 2019 | 07:14 pm PT
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