VOV.VN - As of February 22, over 95% of labourers in the northern province of Binh Duong have returned to work after the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

As many as 91% of local businesses in Hanoi had resumed operations and 94.5% of the labourers had returned to work after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday as of February 17, according to the Hanoi Federation of Labour.

Vietnam targets raising the proportion of trained workers to 35-40 % by 2030 under a support programme for labour market development newly issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of poor labourers on February 7 boarded a North-South express train departing from Sai Gon Railway Station en route to their homes to reunite with their relatives for the lunar New Year holiday (Tet).

Vietnam and Israel kicked off negotiation over a labour cooperation agreement with an online meeting on January 21.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked experts to study to seek a new driving force for development during a working session with the National Advisory Council on Financial and Monetary Policies and the economic advisory group on January 19.

VOV.VN - The yearly amount of remittances sent by Vietnamese guest workers to Vietnam from abroad is between US$3 billion and US$4 billion per year, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Vietnam will remain at the centre of Asian supply chains and one of the most competitive manufacturing locations in the Asia-Pacific region, said analysts at the Economist Intelligence Unit in a report on the country released on January 13.

The number of people voluntarily joining the social insurance network has grown by 750,000 over the last two years, three times higher than a decade ago, heard an online conference held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on January 11 to introduce tasks for 2021.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 8 told 2020 International Olympiad winners to study hard to ‘improve themselves and pursue the career they love’.