The National Assembly has well performed parliamentary diplomacy, thus contributing to consolidating and developing Vietnam’s relations with its traditional friends, neighbours, and strategic and comprehensive partners such as Laos, Cuba, Cambodia, China, Russia, the US, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other Southeast Asian nations.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese women typically spend an average of 20.2 hours per week doing household chores, in contrast to men who only spend 10.7 hours on such tasks, according to data revealed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Vietnam.

A website on the 2019 Labour Code, at http://boluatlaodong2019.molisa.gov.vn, was officially launched on January 4.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has welcomed the new rights of workers and employers in Vietnam from January 1 as the revised Labour Code adopted in 2019 takes effect.

Though 2020 is a challenging year for Vietnam with the rise of COVID-19, the 14th National Assembly (NA) has taken innovative approaches and managed to complete an enormous workload to fulfill all its three missions in lawmaking, supervision and major decision-making.

VOV.VN - The International Labor Organization (ILO), on the occasion of the International Migrants Day (December 18), welcomes the opportunity to better protect Vietnamese labourers working abroad thanks to the newly-revised Law on Contract-Based Vietnamese Overseas Workers.

The effective handling by the Vietnamese Government of the COVID-19 crisis has created a very big opportunity for local suppliers to attract more businesses and investment from other countries, thus entering the global supply chain, according to an ILO expert.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) held a workshop on November 24 to review the five-year implementation of a global integration strategy on labour and social affairs to 2020 with a vision until 2030.

VOV.VN - Vietnam's engagement in various free trade agreements, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), alongside bilateral labour co-operation agreements, serves to expand employment opportunities both at home and abroad for local workers.