Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Ba Hoan met with Kubo Yoshitomo, Deputy Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam, on August 1 to accelerate a project connecting Vietnamese workers with overseas job opportunities.

VOV.VN - Eight bank workers in Bien Hoa city of Dong Nai province have been hospitalized for monitoring and treatment due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan on July 30 held a seminar on promoting support for Vietnamese workers in Japan to integrate into the local community, develop themselves and their careers, with the participation of representatives of relevant Japanese agencies, departments and localities.

VOV.VN - The country sent 89,874 labourers to work abroad under contracts during the first seven months of the year, reaching 71.89% of the annual target.

VOV.VN - Police based in the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau have announced success in an operation to rescue a Vietnamese girl who had been trafficked into Myanmar as a forced worker.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City’s labour market will need 153,500 to 161,500 more jobs ahead in the second half of the year, according to information provided by the city’s Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.

VOV.VN - Nine workers were injured in a dust explosion at a wood processing company in the southern province of Binh Duong on July 6.

In a move to share knowledge on worker support initiatives, member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and Chairman of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions (LFTU) Leth Xayyaphone paid a working trip to the southernmost province of Ca Mau on July 4.

VOV.VN - Dozens of passengers were injured after a bus plunged into an abyss in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong on July 1.

Vietnam sent more than 78,000 labourers to work abroad so far this year, with Japan receiving the largest number, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.