The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is set to submit candidates for the chairmanship of the National Election Council to the NA on June 10, part of the legislature’s ongoing ninth session in Hanoi.

Vietnamese workers abroad are not allowed to work as masseuse/masseur at hotels, restaurants and entertainment facilities abroad from May 20.

The National Assembly (NA) mulled over a draft revised law on Vietnamese guest workers with contracts in Hanoi on May 21, the second working day of its ongoing ninth session.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on April 5 asked the Overseas Labour Management Department to order businesses to suspend sending workers abroad until the end of April.

Lawyer Truong Quoc Hoe, head of the Interla Legal Office under the Hanoi Bar Association, talks to Kinh tế & Đô Thị (Economy & Urban Affairs) newspaper about the need for strong actions against illegal guest workers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese guest workers going to Japan has increased sharply in recent years as supply from China, the main provider for long, has dried up.

 In 10 months leading up to November, Vietnam had sent almost 16,300 workers to Japan and this is the first year Vietnam broke its record of sending 15,000 guest workers to the country annually.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in collaboration with Vietnamese business enterprises are providing aid to workers returning from Libya and helping them terminate their contracts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese labor export companies have reported a sharp increase of 30 percent from Japan for Vietnamese laborers.

 In response to questions concerning the Vietnamese people in Libya, the Consular Department of the Foreign Ministry on July 30 said most of the 1,550 Vietnamese people are living and working in non-violence areas of Libya.

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Vietnam, as Chair of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), introduced a Draft Resolution entitled “Report of the IAEA” at a plenary session of the 68 th UN General Assembly in New York on November 5-6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is forecast to receive between US$4.5-4.8 billion worth of overseas remittances this year - the figure that will remarkably surpass the US$4.1 billion level of 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 90 Vietnamese labourers have been hospitalised with malaria during the past three months after returning from guest worker programmes in Africa.

VietNamNet Bridge – Do Huy Hoang, a 36-year-old student of the SONA International Manpower Supply and Trade Company's training centre in Ha Noi's Me Linh District, found work after returning from South Korea