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The Lunar New Year (Tet) festival bonus is expected to increase 15.7 percent from last year, averaging 5.53 million VND (250 USD) per worker.

The first Vietnamese language course designed for staff of the Lao Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW) opened in Vientiane on November 9.

Vietnam sent a total of 99,415 workers abroad in the first 10 months of this year, surpassing the yearly target by 4.6 percent.

The prostitution prevention has failed to meet expectation, delegates said at a conference in Hanoi on October 23 reviewing the five-year implementation of an action plan on prostitution prevention.

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep met Rainer Sontowski, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).

The Thai Ministry of Labour on October 3 revealed a plan to help millions of workers develop their skills so as to prepare them for job opportunities when the country joins AEC by the year-end.

Illegal Vietnamese workers abroad and particularly in the RoK who voluntarily return home from September 1 to December 31 this year will not be imposed with any administrative penalties.