Vietnamese workers overseas reach 140,000

The number of Vietnamese working overseas totalled 140,000 this year, increasing nearly 7 per cent over last year, according to the Overseas Worker Management Department.

City to train minority workers

HCM City authorities will allocate VNĐ67.9 billion (US$3 million) for a five-year (2016-2020) project that will provide vocational training and job counseling to ethnic minority workers.

Japan to help develop eco-cities Japan's Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Traffic, and Tourism Hata Yuichiro said his country would assist Viet Nam in developing eco-cities, adding that Japanese businesses were interested in eco-urban projects in Viet Nam.

Province boosts ethnic living standards The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Dak Nong will invest more than VND2 trillion (US$95 million) from now until 2015 to improve the lives of its ethnic minority residents.

New approach to poverty reduction Leaders of Central Highlands' provinces yesterday called for more support from the Government to help reduce poverty through sustainable, community-based programmes.

Support available for firms employing ethnic minorities Enterprises in Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region employing workers from ethnic minorities will be entitled to receive State support from January 1.

Incentives to invest in poor districts The Ministry of Finance will offer financial incentives to encourage businesses to invest in poor districts under the National Programme for Rapid and Sustainable Poverty Reduction.

Ethnic minority workers get free training More than 5,000 workers in Kon Tum Province, many of them belonging to ethnic minoritiy groups, will receive free vocational training under a programme launched by the provincial Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs this year.

Plans for ethnic minorities to be sent overseas to work The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is mapping out a plan to send around 20,000 ethnic minority workers abroad to work in the next two years, to help improve their living conditions.

Training centres help ethnic youth Great efforts have been made to provide vocational training for young people in the Central Highlands provinces in recent years, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.