Keyword: "jobs"

Hanoi plans to create 169,000 new jobs in 2025, reduce urban unemployment rate to below 3%, and increase the proportion of trained workers to 75%, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that the Singaporean government will continue to create good jobs and opportunities for Singaporeans while pressing on with industry transformation and keeping an eye on its cost competitiveness.

Macadamia, first grown in the northern province of Dien Bien in 2013, has not only helped stabilise the livelihoods of local farmers but has also opened up a new direction for local agriculture.

The central city of Da Nang is actively collaborating with central ministries and agencies to swiftly implement specific mechanisms and policies for the city’s development under the National Assembly's Resolution 136/2024/QH15, particularly regarding the pilot establishment of a free trade zone (FTZ).

Population aging is an irreversible global trend and has a strong impact on all areas of society. The challenges that population aging brings to economic growth, politics, and social security issues are directly affecting the elderly.

When Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD opened its first Southeast Asian factory in Thailand earlier this month, the country basked in the limelight and won praise for its industrial vision.

The Thai government will kick off its One Family One Soft Power (OFOS) project in June, aiming to create 20 million jobs with a minimum annual salary of 200,000 THB (about 5,400 USD), a senior official has said.

The Thai government projects that some 200,000 jobs worth 1.2 trillion THB (35.03 trillion USD) will be created during the development process of the Business Centre and Liveable Smart City within the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

Nearly 21,000 poor households and policy beneficiaries have so far gained access to loans to resume production, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) branch in the northern province of Phu Tho.

More than 163,000 labourers in Ho Chi Minh City found jobs in the first six months of 2023, up 0.21% year on year, while more than 79,900 new jobs were created, a rise of 0.25%, reported the municipal Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

The 15th annual Workers Month was launched on April 22 in Ho Chi Minh City with a number of activities meant to improve employee engagement and take care of employees' needs.

Indonesia's parliament on March 21 passed into law an emergency decree of President Joko Widodo in order to reinforce regulations on investment and jobs in the Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

The Malaysian Employers Federation, the nation’s largest employers' group, fears that up to 60,000 people could lose their jobs this year, double the yearly average of the past, its President Syed Hussain Syed Husman has said.

Ho Chi Minh City, the largest economic hub in southern Vietnam, needs from 280,000-300,000 or 300,000-320,000 more jobs in 2023, depending on economic growths of the globe and several major countries.

Falling orders caused by weak demand have left firms with no choice but to shed jobs and scale down production in the last months of the lunar year.

Indonesia’s government has targeted to create 4.4 million jobs in the tourism sector by 2024, according to the country’s Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno.

As a three-year pilot programme allowing Vietnamese people to gamble at a casino on Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang is set to finish by the end of this year, the Ministry of Finance has asked for a two-year extension due to the COVID-19 pandemic badly affecting the casino business over the last two years.

More than 327,000 jobs were provided for labourers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam’s two largest cities – in the first seven months of 2022.

Many medical workers quit their jobs in State facilities and moved to private health centres, especially in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, leaving a big challenge for the health sector.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will hold a dialogue with workers on June 12, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) said at a press conference in Hanoi on June 9.