Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The Song Da Corporation will send 2,000 workers and engineers to Russia and Japan for training with a major on nuclear power construction from 2-3 years, starting from 2013.

HANOI - Sex workers in Vietnam are struggling to figure out their next steps after the government’s decision earlier this year to release them from compulsory detention centres that have been widely condemned for alleged human rights abuses.

Garment, footwear and electronics enterprises plan to give to their workers the Tet bonuses valued at one or two-month salaries. Meanwhile, commercial banks, which always offered sky high Tet bonuses, still ponder on the Tet bonuses.

Shipbuilding yards have been left idle and big ships have become rusty, while crews have been calling for help from abroad. These all reflect the current situation of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), which was once the giant in the shipbuilding industry.

HANOI — Vietnam distributed more money in unemployment benefits in the first eight months of the year than it did during all of 2011, reflecting the economy's slowing growth.

The BBC has found disturbing evidence of Vietnamese textile workers being kept in slave-like conditions at a Vietnamese-run factory in Russia.

Southern industrial zones are offering workers few housing projects.

The cost of housing in Vietnam is 25 times higher than the average workers wage, 5 times higher than housing in developed countries and 10 times higher than housing in developing countries according to a real estate expert.

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.