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Despite being hailed as a high-income sector with massive potential, IT continues to face shortages and a weak labour force that requires comprehensive changes through earlier education and training.
Labour force: mismatch between supply and demand
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has abundant labour resources but many enterprises in the country say they cannot recruit a sufficient number of skilled workers, and as a result, cannot expand production activities.
Graduates struggle to find employment
VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of thousands of graduates fail to find
jobs and yet businesses say they face a shortage of skilled employees.
Life insurance market has room to grow
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's life insurance sector has registered
significant growth in recent years though the domestic growth is still
facing hurdles.
Farmer ploughs and rakes in a Presidential award
VietNamNet Bridge – Making a machine that both ploughs and rakes has
earned Cao Phi Ho several plaudits, but he lacks resources needed to
have his invention replace expensive imported machines.
VN population growth presents challenges
VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Tan, vice chief of the Ministry of
Health's General Office for Population and Family Planning, spoke with
Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam about solutions to
problems created by demographic changes.
Agricultural sector must focus on ways to grow productivity
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's agriculture sector must restructure
and seek more funding, head of CIEM's Rural Development research
department Luu Duc Khai told Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper.
Business outlook optimistic
VietNamNet Bridge – Most enterprises operating in Viet Nam were
optimistic about the economic recovery, saying business was bouncing
back this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Nuclear plant technology offered by Mitsubishi
VietNamNet Bridge – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has expressed hope to
be eligible for supplying technology to Vietnam’s nuclear power
plants.
Vietnam's ‘golden population' begins to fade
VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy director of the Population and Family
Planning Department, Le Canh Nhac, spoke about the management of population and family planning in Viet
Nam.
Illegal foreign workers a problem
VietNamNet Bridge – Many foreigners working in Viet Nam lack work
permits, Nguyen Van Tien, deputy inspector in the Ministry of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs tells the Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper.
High-yield crops to replace rice
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will transition 100,000 hectares of
rice-growing areas to cultivate other crops, Pham Van Du, Deputy
Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Crop
Production Department told Youth newspaper.
Vietnam eyes improvements to labour force
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is facing numerous challenges in its bid
to improve human resources and take advantage of the current period of
"golden demography," experts have said.
Youth struggle to find jobs in slow economy
VietNamNet Bridge – According to the General Statistics Office, there
were at least 1 million unemployed people during the first nine months
of 2013. Nationwide, young people (15-24 years old) accounted for 5.97
per cent,
Most Da Nang tourism workers unqualified
VietNamNet Bridge – Only 40 per cent of the 14,000 people working in
the tourism and hospitality sector in central Da Nang City are actually
qualified, a study has found.
Insurance fund may be insolvent by 2034
VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Social Security Fund (VSS) could
start showing a deficit by 2021 and run out of money by 2034 if no
reforms were made, according to the International Labour Oraganisation
(ILO).
Minimum wage for civil servants rises
VietNamNet Bridge – Civil servants, members of the armed forces and
socio-political organisation stafff will enjoy an increase of 9.5 per
cent to their monthly minimum wage from July 1.
HCM City: workers expected to take extended break
VietNamNet Bridge – The city is forecast to be in short of up to 15 per cent of labour force after the nine-day Tet holiday.
