Posts Tagged ‘ Work Abroad ’

Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

June 21, 2011
Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

Staff members of a local export company (L) interview candidates for overseas jobs in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Nam has been on tenterhooks for the past week. He has completed most of the procedures for going to work in Taiwan next month, but has not managed to raise enough money to pay for the trip. “Earlier, [...]

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Home not so sweet for workers returning from abroad

January 31, 2010
Home not so sweet for workers returning from abroad

Women wait at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi before traveling to work abroad. Le Xuan Lai has returned to his village in the northern province of Thai Binh to work the fields, dispirited after over a year of fruitlessly looking for a job in Hanoi. His limited experience and smattering of Chinese, which he [...]

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Problems plague labour export plan for disadvantaged workers

December 7, 2009
Problems plague labour export plan for disadvantaged workers

Poor promotion and communication, lack of co-operation by local authorities, and excessive red tape have been blamed for problems in expanding the national labour export scheme . . . Young people seek labour export opportunities at a career fair in the central province of Nghe An.The problem is seen as so serious that Prime Minister [...]

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Vietnam misses labour export target

November 30, 2009
Vietnam misses labour export target

Workers study foreign language before going abroad.VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has fallen short of its target to send 90,000 labourers to work abroad in 2009 as a consequence of the global economic crisis. Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Director of the Overseas Labour Management Department, announced on November 27, noting that the total number of Vietnamese labourers [...]

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Vietnam falls short of labor export target

November 28, 2009
Vietnam falls short of labor export target

Vietnam has fallen short of its target to send 90,000 laborers to work abroad this year as a consequence of the global economic crisis. Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Director of Overseas Labor Management Department announced the information on Nov. 27, noting that the total number of Vietnamese laborers leaving to work abroad in 2009 is expected [...]

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Most labour export firms can’t do job

August 25, 2009
Most labour export firms can’t do job

A three-year inspection carried out by the National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee has found two-thirds of labour export companies were incapable of sending workers abroad. Only 54 out of 164 licensed businesses were able to send more than 1,000 workers abroad, while 29 others did not sign a single export contract between 2007 and 2009.Only [...]

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Chance to work abroad gives hope to poor

June 18, 2009
Chance to work abroad gives hope to poor

LookAtVietnam – Working overseas is a dream come true for many of the country’s poorest villagers, and particularly for women trapped in the most menial and low-paying jobs. Ethnic people will have the chance to enroll for free language and professional skills training courses in order to work in South Korea, instead of being trapped [...]

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Working abroad gives hope to poor

June 18, 2009
Working abroad gives hope to poor

LookAtVietnam – Working overseas is a dream come true for many of the country’s poorest villagers, and particularly women who are often trapped in the most menial and low-paying jobs. Ethnic people will have the chance to enroll for free language and professional skills training courses in order to work in South Korea, instead of [...]

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Poverty worsens for repatriated workers

April 7, 2009
Poverty worsens for repatriated workers

Workers returning from Russia prepare to move to other housing after their current contract ends. Nguyen Dinh Dung left for Russia early this year with high hopes that he would help his family escape poverty. His farming family in the central province of Quang Tri had sold a cow, used for plowing the field, for [...]

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Poverty program targets poorest areas, labor export markets

February 15, 2009

A program to eliminate poverty in the country’s 61 poorest districts via housing and labor export projects was initiated Thursday, a high-ranking official said. At a meeting in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said the program aims to ensure that by the end of the year no [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...