VietNamNet Bridge - There are about 200,000 autistic children in Vietnam, but the law has no content regulating their educational treatment. 

Vietnamese are the second largest community of expat workers in Japan, which employs 1.28 million foreign workers, just after China. 

The updated bulletin on Vietnamese labor market released by MOLISA on December 26, 2017 showed that 1.07 million workers were unemployed in the third quarter of the year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Japan and South Korea are tightening control over illegal residential workers, while Vietnam plans to export 105,000 workers. 

The unemployment rate among university graduates is higher that of untrained workers or workers with lower education levels. However, for many Vietnamese students, a bachelor’s degree is the best way for them to make their way in the world.

Vietnam needs to develop a qualified labor force that can meet the requirements of  industrialization and reduce the number of guest workers abroad, according to experts. 

The forthcoming spikes in the region-based minimum wages are expected to improve workers' incomes but production costs in labor-intensive industries will certainly pick up.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many university graduates are taking jobs which unrelated to their majors, including manual jobs, to earn a living.

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) estimates that Vietnam would need 600,000 workers in the IT industry by 2020, but training establishments can provide only 400,000.

Doubting the feasibility of MOLISA’s plan to export university graduates, experts say they may have to take manual work as Vietnam’s degrees are not recognized in other countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has drawn up a plan to find jobs overseas for 54,000 university graduates who cannot find jobs.

VietNamNet Bridge - “There are many jobs at our company, but they are not reserved for lazy workers who have delusions about themselves,” said the director of a private company.

VietNamNet Bridge - Under a plan drawn up by MOET, teachers will no longer be civil servants and will work under labor contracts.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of Vietnamese interns studying and working in Japan has increased, reaching 90,000 in 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA) must re-examine the operation of vocational training centres to curb financial waste, 

VietNamNet Bridge - The junior colleges under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) are facing difficulties in the 2017 enrollment season. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Millions of textile & garment and footwear workers could be replaced with robots in the future. 

VietNamNet Bridge - While some analysts jeer at the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs’ (MOLISA) plan to export unemployed university graduates, others support the idea.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is trying to create jobs for hundreds of thousands of unemployed university graduates in a project to export laborers. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many students have decided not to follow university education even after passing entrance exams, while many master’s degree graduates have enrolled in vocational schools.