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Vietnam’s relevant agencies have stepped up training since mid-2022 in an effort to increase the number of workers sent to the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Employment service centres in big cities have increased capacity to help connect workers with vacancies after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Ho Chi Minh City's authorities will organise online and offline job transaction floors in the Southwest and Central Highlands regions to support businesses in recruiting labourers, said Nguyen Van Lam, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Thailand has approved new minimum wages for skilled workers in 17 occupations in three sectors as proposed by the Labour Ministry.

Indonesia and Malaysia have discussed solutions to problems related to the protection of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has demanded enhancing the detection, reception, management, and treatment of COVID-19 cases as the pandemic remains complex around the world.

The majority of workers of businesses and factories in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, three major industrial hubs in the south, have returned to work after a long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, local authorities said.

As this year’s Hung Kings festival is just one day before the Reunification Day and International Workers' Day, workers in Vietnam will enjoy a rare five-day holiday.

A working delegation of the Vietnam Centre for Overseas Labour (Colab) had a meeting on January 29 with representatives from the Counseling Centre for Foreign Workers of the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ansan city to promote the implementation of support activities for Vietnamese labourers in the RoK.

Vietnamese nationals account for 25.4% of the total 1.82 million foreign workers who were working in Japan as of the end of October last year, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW).

The Hanoi Federation of Labour held a programme at Thang Long Industrial Park on January 19 to take disadvantaged workers to their hometowns for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Contractors will still deploy over 2,000 machines, equipment, engineers and workers for the construction of Long Thanh international airport during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, reported the project’s management board on January 18.

Malaysia’s government will accelerate the implementation of a plan on promoting the recruitment of foreign workers in five sector,s namely manufacturing, construction, plantation, agriculture, and services (restaurants only), according to Human Resources Minister V Sivakumar.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has passed a resolution on support to its members and workers who lost their jobs or had their working time reduced from October 2022 because their enterprises suffered from a reduction in order.

Malaysia’s expected entry of 500,000 foreign workers this year will not affect job opportunities for locals, said Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar on January 16.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh extended Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes to authorities and people in the northern province of Nam Dinh while attending a programme to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year for workers on January 15.

Flights arranged by budget Vietjet, HD SAISON and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour have recently carried nearly 500 workers to their hometowns for the upcoming Lunar New Year festival.

Malaysia will remove its existing preconditions on employing foreign workers and allow demand-based employment in bid to boost its economy, said Minister of Home Affairs Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has operated a free flight carrying over 100 disadvantaged workers from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi to re-unite with their families on the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Vietnam sent more than 142,000 labourers abroad in 2022, mostly to Japan, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.