December 16, 2011
Vietnam has sent more than 81,000 laborers overseas as of November, Vietnam News Agency quoted an official from the labor ministry as saying on Tuesday. Despite difficulties, Vietnam is likely to achieve the target of sending 87,000 laborers overseas this year, said Le Van Thanh, deputy chief of the ministry’s Overseas Labor Management. According [...]
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December 3, 2011
Vietnam’s garment and textiles industry benefits from preferential tariffs in the ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement. A bilateral free trade agreement between Vietnam and South Korea expected next year should save Vietnam from paying more Korean taxes, a Korean official said Tuesday. Â The two countries are expected to negotiate an agreement early next year, after [...]
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November 23, 2011
Vietnam's Cha gio (fried minced pork roll) will be introduced at the two-day festival, with free admission in Hanoi. Vietnam-Korea Gastronomy & Culture Festival 2011 will be held in Hanoi on November 26 and 27, the Vietnamplus newswire reported on Friday. The event, co-held by the Embassy of South Korea in Vietnam, Department of Korean [...]
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November 19, 2011
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie (C) waves to the media as she stands with her adopted sons Pax Thien (R) from Vietnam and Maddox from Cambodia at a security check point before leaving Con Dao Island, off Vietnam’s southern coast on Wednesday (November 16) Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her six children wrapped up their [...]
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November 16, 2011
A Lotte Mart outlet in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Retail giant Lotte is promoting Vietnamese and Indonesian goods in a special event at 11 Lotte Mart outlets in South Korea between November 11 and 16, according to the company. The Vietnamese goods fair introduces high-quality Vietnamese and Indonesian goods to South Korean customers and [...]
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November 11, 2011
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (right) ushers his Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang during a ceremony in Seoul. AFP Vietnam agreed on Tuesday to seek greater nuclear energy cooperation with South Korea, opening the way for its participation in the development of an atomic power plants in energy-hungry Vietnam. The agreement was reached during [...]
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November 9, 2011
A group of Vietnamese workers prepare to depart for South Korea. Vietnam’s labor authorities have temporarily banned people from 23 wards from applying to work in South Korea after many workers from these wards quit jobs or overstayed in South Korea after their contract expired. These wards and communes, most of which are in northern [...]
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November 5, 2011
South Korea will recruit Vietnamese guest workers back after a four-month hiatus, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said on November 3. According to the ministry, South Korea’s Employment Permit System (EPS) office is set to conduct the Korean language test for Vietnamese workers on December 17 and 18. Nguyen Ngoc [...]
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November 2, 2011
Two Vietnamese men died on October 23 after falling from a motel in South Korea while attempting to dodge a police crackdown on illegal gambling. Pham Quang Tuyen, First Secretary at the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea, told Thanh Nien the embassy had received the announcement about the two deaths from local police. The two men [...]
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October 31, 2011
International contest slips down a sleazy slope with accusations of sexual harassment, bribery and other capers   Miss Guyana and Miss Wales (second and third from the left), together with Miss Costa Rica, were parts of the contest’s maelstrom when they posted a video complaining about the event on YouTube Vietnam’s Truong Tung Lan did [...]
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