Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Hanoi - Vietnam reported a record number of wildcat strikes last year because of demands for salary hikes prompted by soaring inflation, authorities said Thursday.

SEOUL — South Korea has temporarily stopped accepting new migrant workers from Vietnam because about 2,000 Vietnamese have failed to leave after their work visas expired, an official said.

HANOI - A survey shows up to 90 per cent of country people who move to big cities aren't covered by social insurance and they don't qualify for subsidised care while they are away from their areas.

Many Vietnamese companies in labour-intensive sectors such as footwear, textile and garment have been receiving a large number of outsourcing orders transferred from China, where production costs have soared.

A coastal hamlet in the central province of Binh Thuan has the dubious distinction of attracting abandoned women who do sex work for a living.

Hanoi - The number of wildcat strikes in Vietnam has risen sharply due to high inflation and poor working conditions, authorities said Wednesday.

HANOI — Thousands of workers at a Yamaha motorcycle factory in Vietnam were on strike Tuesday demanding higher pay and benefits, a company official said, as consumers struggle with double-digit inflation.

HANOI - Vietnamese migrant workers in Libya are short of food and water, an embassy officer in the unstable African state told AFP Thursday, pledging "all means" to get the thousands of labourers out.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced the unemployment rate among Vietnam’s workforce stood at 2.88 percent in 2010. This is a decrease of 0.02 percent, as compared to 2009.

HANO - The science and technology sector had made great achievements in the last five years, but it needed to continue developing the country's professional workforce to meet the nation's socio-economic development demands, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan as saying on Wednesday.

Hanoi - More than 2,000 workers were on strike at a South Korean-owned footwear factory in Vietnam, a police official and the company said Friday.

Vietnam's garment and textile industry needs up to 200,000 more workers as demand picked up following the global economic recovery, officials and companies said Tuesday.

The number of workplace accidents in Vietnam is on the rise and in danger of getting out of control because labour laws are widely ignored, a government official said Friday.

DUBAI - Police in Dubai have arrested nearly 100 construction workers from Vietnam after they held a protest demanding unpaid wages, UAE daily the National reported on Thursday.

Hanoi - Vietnam is to expel 40 Chinese caught working on a Singaporean sand excavation project without work permits, an official said Tuesday.