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The Government of Japan has provided grant aid of 317 million JPY (3 million USD) to support human resources development in Laos.

A consultation between the Francophonie University Association (AUF) and rectors of universities in the southern region which are members of the AUF was held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 10.

Politburo member Vuong Dinh Hue, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, made a working trip to the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park on July 10 with the aim of removing bottlenecks for the park to welcome a new wave of investment.

Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta set up a tourism linkage council at a conference on July 4 reviewing their cooperation on tourism development in the first six months of this year.

The low-cost carrier Vietjet has continued to be named in the Top 50 "Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2020".

Here is the full text of the ASEAN Declaration on Human Resources Development for the Changing World of Work, which was adopted at the teleconferenced 36th ASEAN Summit on June 26.

Laos supports ASEAN’s human resources development plan, the Vientiane Times reported, quoting a speech by Lao Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune at the 23rd ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council (ASCC) meeting on June 23.

An online conference took place between Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and Switzerland’s Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) on June 23, discussing ways to enhance the sides’ post-COVID-19 labour cooperation.

The Ministry of Education and Training is to implement the Vietnam National Qualifications Framework (VQF).

Vietnam is striving to have its vocational education with the same level of ASEAN-4 countries by 2030, and reach the level of G20 countries by 2045. This is the goal set out at the seminar on the development of vocational education and training strategies in the 2021-2030 period held in Hanoi on June 16.

The recruitment demand of the IT industry has quadrupled after a decade, according to the report “Information Technology Human Resources of the 2010s and 2020" released by VietnamWorks, a leading online recruitment website, belonging to the Navigos Group.

Human resources in the information technology (IT) sector have been head-hunted in large numbers by both Vietnamese and foreign employers since the beginning of this year.

More than 90 percent of IT firms in Vietnam want to hire more staff and expand their business after the pandemic, according to the latest report by Navigos Group.

Experts have predicted that once the COVID-19 pandemic is put under control, recruitment demand will bounce back rapidly. In such context, what should employers and employees prepare for themselves?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) has a great impact on the human resources of the banking sector, according to the general director of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank).

The southern province of Kien Giang estimates to welcome 585,680 in February, a drop of 44.5 percent from the previous month..

Developing human resources in tourism is key to help boost this industry sustainability, according to experts.

The Manpower Ministry of Indonesia has announced a funding of 5.2 trillion Rp (about 380 million USD) for vocational training centres nationwide to improve the quality of human resources.

Around 80,000 workers are needed in Ho Chi Minh City for the first quarter of this year, according to the HCM City Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (FALMI) Centre.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has set a target to generate jobs for 1.5 million workers, and help some 100,000 labourers to find jobs through the National Employment Fund in 2020.