Vietnam Net | 5 November 2018 Tran Tien Duy, deputy head of Nhat Huy Khang Company, said labour demand increases near the year-end. According to Duy, this is when Japan usually starts their fiscal year and the country prioritises Vietnamese labourers. “The opportunities for Vietnamese labourers in Japan are open with the two countries’ relationship […]
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The Mainichi | 19 August 2018 TOKYO — Japan is planning to accept a greater number of caregivers from three Southeastern Asian countries having bilateral free trade agreements with Tokyo as part of efforts to address a labor shortage in the country, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. By easing some restrictions on the
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Vietnam News | 13 August 2018 HÀ NỘI — With a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, Japan had to adopt a more open-door approach towards foreign workers to staff its labour-strapped industries, with Vietnamese workers among the fastest growing groups. According to Nguyễn Gia Liêm, deputy head of Việt Nam’s Centre of Overseas Labour
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HÀ NỘI – The Việt Nam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS) yesterday announced the results of the annual evaluation of migrant worker recruitment agencies, with 43 per cent of agencies ranked receiving a five star rating. The annual ranking, the fourth of its kind, evaluates recruitment agencies’ performance against VAMAS’s code of conduct for recruitment
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23 December 2015, The Nation An agreement between Thailand and Vietnam on migrant labour is expected to take effect early next year. Thailand is also preparing to take workers from two other Asean nations under memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for the upcoming Asean Economic Community. Labour Minister General Sirichai Dithakul met yesterday with delegates from Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia
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29 November 2015, Kathmandu Post Nov 29, 2015- The number of Nepali migrants going to Malaysia has fallen drastically after the government made it mandatory for overseas employers to provide free tickets and visa to workers. Malaysia, the largest destination for Nepali workers, hired only 25,635 Nepali workers in the last three months, nearly 68
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16 April 2015, The Australian Business Review As its labour force shrinks, Japan is looking abroad to fill jobs like healthcare aides and convenience-store managers. But rather than increase immigration, the government is turning back to an “internship” program that the US and others have criticised as fraught with human rights abuses. Prime Minister Shinzo
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15 March 2015, Taipei Times LIFTING A BAN:Minister of Labor Chen Hsiung-wen said officials from Taiwan and Vietnam were meeting to discuss new regulations for Vietnamese workers Taiwan recruited 10,906 Vietnamese workers during the first two months of this year, making it Vietnam’s largest labor export market, according to the latest official data from Hanoi.
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24 February 2015, Arab News Female domestic workers registered the highest recruiting costs on the Ministry of Labor’s Musaned web page, with an increase of more than ten times the costs to recruit men in other professions, according to the latest data posted on the website. Costs to recruit a Vietnamese female worker stood at
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14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of
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