Vietnam aims to send 125,000 labourers abroad to work under contracts in 2024, focusing on key traditional markets such as Japan, Taiwan (China) and the Republic of Korea (RoK), according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

VOV.VN - Vietnam currently tops the Southeast Asian region in the number of students studying abroad, according to the Southeast Asia Key Trends Report 2024 by Acumen, an international education consulting organisation.

Vietnamese living abroad are celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration - the most important traditional festival of Vietnamese people.

VOV.VN - Remittances sent by Vietnamese nationals abroad hit approximately US$16 billion last year, representing a year-on-year rise of 32%, according to the State Bank of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - President Vo Van Thuong on January 9 awarded a decision to appoint and assign tasks to 26 Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad for the 2024-2027 term.

VOV.VN - Vietnam sent approximately 155,000 workers abroad this year, meeting 129% of the target set for the year and representing an increase of 8.55% from a year earlier, according to an initial report unveiled by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

Around 40,000 Vietnamese people go abroad to study each year, a 2.5-fold increase compared to the figure before 2013, Pham Quang Hung, Director of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s International Cooperation Department, announced on October 31.

VOV.VN - Vietnam's outbound investment reached US$416.8 million over the past nine months, a rise of 4.6% compared to the same period from last year, as reported by the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia, in collaboration with the Vietnamese Association in the country and the Moscow State Linguistics University, on September 7 held a Vietnamese language festival to honour and promote the learning of this language in Russia.

VOV.VN - The Department of Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a press conference in Hanoi on September 8 to unveil the "Vietnam Days Abroad 2023" event.