This year's target is the deployment of 125,000 Vietnamese workers under contract abroad, with a focus on high-income and stable markets.

To realise the target, the MoLISA will continue to improve the quality of workers sent abroad, and prioritise sending labourers from disadvantaged areas and policy beneficiaries overseas.

Vietnam sent more than 146,000 guest workers abroad over the past 11 months, including 74,000 to Japan, according to statistics released by the Department of Overseas Labor under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Over 10,000 Vietnamese have illegally remained in South Korea according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) said.

There are roughly 650,000 Vietnamese labourers working in 40 countries and territories around the world, according to estimated data from the Department of Overseas Labor Management under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Labourers seeking to work abroad should exercise caution and do not trust any job offers made on online platforms, warned by the Department of Overseas Labour.

The number of local people sent to work overseas rose to 111,507 between January and September, up 8% compared to the same period from last year.

Vietnam is speeding up negotiations with Hungary in a bid to sign an agreement on sending and receiving Vietnamese labourers in the European country – an emerging market drawing great interest from labourers.

Vietnam sent 97,234 workers abroad in the first eight months of 2023, equivalent to over 88% of the year’s target, reported the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Students at vocational schools have strong professional knowledge, but are quite weak in foreign languages.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) demanded strict handling of firms sending Vietnamese labourers to work in Greece without the approval of the authorities.

Japan recruited more than 41,000 Vietnamese workers during the past seven months, making up the largest recipient of Vietnamese guestworkers in the reviewed period, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Japan remains the top destination for Vietnamese guest workers, with over 34,500 individuals going to Japan in the first half of the year, according to the Department of Overseas Labor.

The number of Vietnamese guest workers working overseas under contracts exceeded 59,600 in the first five months of this year, or 54.2% of the annual plan and over 1.9 times higher than the same period last year.

Vietnam sent over 60,000 people to work abroad in the first five months of this year, up almost two-fold compared to the same period of last year.

The number of Vietnamese workers registered to work in the Republic of Korea (RoK) has reached more than 23,400, nearly double the agreed recruitment target between VN and RoK.

Nearly 28,500 Vietnamese went to work abroad in the first two months of this year, a 20-fold increase compared to the same period last year.