VietNamNet Bridge – The South Korean labour market may be closed off to Vietnamese workers if Viet Nam does not make more effort to reduce the number overstaying their visas and working illegally.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  The average monthly income of a Vietnamese worker was ND4.6 million in the second quarter of the year, a figure that the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs in its report called “fabulous”.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more Vietnamese workers have been going to Laos in recent years to help on investment projects between the two countries. The figure is expected to exceed 20,000 by 2015.

 The last Vietnamese guest workers at fighting zones in strife-torn Libya have moved out of dangerous areas, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said on August 14.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 500 guest workers still stranded in war-torn Libya will return to Vietnam in a couple of days under the Government’s recent directions after recent evacuations by charter flights

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Foreign Ministry says that government agencies and manpower export companies are ready to take all Vietnamese workers in Libya home if the situation in the North African country gets worse.

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-eight Vietnamese workers are fleeing the spiraling violence in Benghazi and are expected to arrive at the Egyptian Salloum border gate late on the afternoon of August 4 before flying home.

More than 100 hospitality and entertainment projects on Phu Quoc Island with the combined pledged capital of around $6 billion have been licenced, but few have been carried out due to underdeveloped infrastructure and the high cost of labour.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Order has been restored in southern industrial parks and export processing zones as most businesses in HCM City and neighbouring provinces have resumed operations following riots led by extremists

 VietNamNet Bridge – The demand for Vietnamese senior staff has been soaring amid a wave of Japanese investors flocking to Vietnam to set up their production bases.

 Northwestern poverty reduction policies to face review; Sai Gon River bridge in danger; Smuggled Chinese pigeons seized in Quang Ninh; Soft skills a must for Vietnamese workers; Work accident inspections progress slowly

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese workers in South Korea will not have their deposits of VND100 million returned if they overstay visas to work illegally there.

 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,

 VietNamNet Bridge - On August 15, the Russian authorities continued to carry out the procedures for deportation of illegal workers, including 24 Vietnamese.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Reasons behind Vietnamese workers’ decisions to work illegally in the Republic of Korea were announced at a seminar in Hanoi on July 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese and a Thai died yesterday, May 5, after a bus transporting 15 Vietnamese workers collided with a large lorry in Rayong Province, about 140km from Thailand's capital Bangkok.

Vietnamese workers in South Korea are quite calm before the information of a possible war between North Korea and South Korea. However, the Embassy of Vietnam in the RoK is ready to take them home in emergency case.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the current global economic turmoil, Viet Nam is expected to send 85,000 guest workers abroad in 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge - While transporting iron to a construction site, a truck overturned, killing four people, including two Vietnamese workers who came from the central province of Quang Ngai on February 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With a lot of Vietnamese guest workers overstaying their visa, South Korea has decided to give no quota for labor import from Vietnam this year, according to local media.