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Migration
More high-income job opportunities opened for Vietnamese workers
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has expanded a number of overseas markets in Australia and Europe this year to send guest labourers, with the positions providing good income and working conditions. The number of workers sent to work abroad averages over ...
Vietnam Migration Profile 2023 released
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), held a workshop in Hanoi on October 29 to launch the Vietnam Migration Profile 2023.According to Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs after the two editions in ...
ASEAN looks to promoting safety, fairness for migrant workers
The 17th Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (ACMW) has been held in Luang Prabang, Laos, under the chair of Lylayphong Sisomvang, Director General of Planning and International ...
Conference discusses solutions to protecting migrants' rights in Red River and Mekong Delta
The National Economics University (NEU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Vietnam co-organised a conference entitled “Internal Migration in the Red River and Mekong River Deltas: Current Issues and Policy Implications” in Hanoi, on September 24.The study’s results indicate that the majority of migrants ...
Gender issues, social welfare highlighted in migration studies to better support migrants
Increasing migrant trends are calling for new solutions to ensure migrants’ rights and well-being, particularly for women, said experts at an international scientific conference on migration in social integration. Scholars and professionals from Vietnam, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Thailand and China gathered on October 24 ...
Vietnam to resume e-visa issuance in July
The Government has issued e-visa to citizens from 80 countries since July 1 this year, according to its latest Resolution No. 79/NQ-CP. Visitors with e-visas can enter Viet Nam at eight international airports, or arrive via land at 16 international border gates and via sea ...
Quang Minh
Vietnam actively joins in Global Compact for Migration - seminar
Vietnam has actively participated in the process of building, negotiating, and approving the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), as heard at a Hanoi seminar on August 20.With its active participation in building, negotiating, and approving the GCM, Ambassador Vu Viet Anh, ...
PM orders measures to put an end to unplanned internal migration by 2025
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has reiterated his viewpoint of not encouraging unplanned internal migration and called for harmonious, flexible and comprehensive measures to address the issue.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Migration and poverty in big cities
Multidimensional poverty is a well-used concept in identifying multiple types of deprivation, including health, education, and living standards. In Vietnam, migrants flocking to big cities, with dreams of making a better life for themselves and their family, are also vulnerable to multidimensional poverty.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Foreign workers to pay social insurance
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and Việt Nam Social Security (VSS) have been working with other countries on bilateral agreements to ensure the benefits to foreign workers employed in Việt Nam who are required to make social insurance payments.[]From January 1, 2022, ...
VNS Reporter