TheChinese language newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau said in the context ofinflation and rising good prices, the Vietnamese government has paidspecial attention to building a social welfare system in which jobgeneration is considered an important task and one of the nation’ssocio-economic development targets.
Vietnam’s Prime MinisterNguyen Tan Dung has also taken care of the life of workers in thecountry and overseas. The country has exerted its efforts to evacuatemore than 10,000 migrant workers from chaotic Libya. The workersreturning home ahead of schedule have been given assistance to work inanother country, including Malaysia.
During his official visit to Malaysia, the PM emphasised continued labour cooperation with the nation, said the paper.
Accordingto the newspaper, the Southeast Asian nation set a target of creating1.6 million new jobs this year. In the first quarter of the year, thecountry generated jobs for 340,000 people, 17,590 of whom were sentabroad to work as guest workers.
Malaysia, a key market in the nation’s labour cooperation, received up to 20,000 Vietnamese guest workers in 2003.
Despitethe global economic downturn, during the 2008-2010 period, Malaysiastill ranked among the top five nations welcoming Vietnamese