Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
Vocational schools told to foster entrepreneurship among students, modernise teaching methods
The Government’s Project 1665 for supporting students’ start-ups until 2025 has created favourable conditions for students who want to start their own business, and attracted the participation of enterprises, investment funds, other investors, and organisations and individuals in the country and abroad.Project 1665 was approved by the ...
Paying greater attention to high-quality female workforce
The Presidium of the Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee recently held conferences to issue comments on the various topics of the draft documents of the 13th National Party Congress, with a focus on the building of a high-quality female workforce so that women can take ...
Salary increases in 2020 lowest in 10 years: survey
Salaries increased by 6.5 percent this year at multinational companies (MNCs) and 5.2 percent at Vietnamese companies, and are forecast to increase by 7 percent and 7.7 percent next year, according to the Talentnet – Mercer Total Remuneration Survey.Speaking at a webinar held to release ...
Blending welfare into pursuit of prosperity
In its efforts to become a more affluent nation by 2035, Vietnam has made significant improvements in improving its Human Capital Index.Vietnam is experiencing rapid demographic and social change. Today, 70 percent of the population is under 35 years of age, with a life expectancy ...
Thanh Thu
VN to be only country in region to attain positive growth in 2020: report
Việt Nam is expected to be the only Southeast Asian economy to achieve growth this year, with its GDP rising by a likely 2.3 per cent, according to a study by Oxford Economics. The Global Economic Outlook report said recovery prospects look brightest for Việt Nam, ...
Young people suffer most from the loss of employment in COVID-19
According to the report titled “Tackling the COVID-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific”, the number of unemployed youths in Việt Nam may double this year, while the employment prospects of 663 million young people in Asia and the Pacific face challenges as ...
Vietnam now needs to walk the talk on sexual harassment
The amended Labour Code (LC) of Vietnam includes a number of positive and important provisions, including a definition of sexual harassment. These changes were accepted by the National Assembly (NA) on 20 November 2019. The new Labour Code defines sexual harassment in the workplace for ...
General Statistics Office announces employment data
As many as 1.2 million people have been laid off in the first six months of this year due to Covid-19 pandemic. Statistics from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam showed that the number of employed people in the first six months of the year ...
Vietnam 13th in global Covid-19 recovery ranking
Vietnam has done better than many major economies in recovering from Covid-19, ranking 13th among 184 countries and territories.In Asia, Vietnam ranked fifth after Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, according to the Global Covid-19 Index updated June 16 by Malaysia-based consulting firm Pemandu Associates ...
Nguyen Quy
With jobs lost to Covid-19, Vietnamese struggle to make ends meet
Hundreds of thousands of people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic are struggling to pay their bills. Though Vietnam has been among the earliest countries in the world to contain the virus and revive its economy, people are struggling to find jobs ...