Activities of the Action Month for Children 2022 this year will call for joint efforts in child protection and child abuse prevention and combat, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has announced.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam jointly held a conference recently to evaluate 10 years of implementing social welfare policies in Vietnam.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on April 20 chaired a meeting to discuss the employment situation and measures to deal with the labour shortage.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is set to hold several firework displays across the city between 9 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. on April 30 in celebration of 47 years since National Reunification Day.

The domestic labour market is bouncing back, with 50 million people getting jobs in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 51.7 in March from 54.3 in February, as the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread labour shortages in the manufacturing sector during March, according to S&P Global.

This year, the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs aims to send 90,000 labourers abroad to work under contract, while expanding the market for Vietnamese labour to Europe and Australia.

VOV.VN - Thanks to the safe, flexible adaptation, and effective control of COVID-19, the labour market in the first quarter of the year has shown signs of improvement, with the number of employed people and their average monthly income seeing an increase compared to the same period from last year.

VOV.VN - The southeastern province of Dong Nai is striving to attract approximately US$1.1 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI), including roughly US$700 million from industrial parks and US$400 million outside industrial zones.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest economic hub, has been paying attention to developing the hi-tech industry so as to bring into full play opportunities brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.