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At a recruitment interview (Photo: VietnamPlus)   Hanoi (VNA) - The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will bring benefits in exports and FDI attraction, hence more jobs. The workforce in 2019 is forecast to bode well for both unskilled and skilled labourers. [Vietnamese labourers struggle amid Industrial Revolution 4.0] According to experts, after the lunar New Year holiday, job-seekers will see favourable recruitment demand. Increasing recruitment demand Le Quang Trung, Director of the Department of Employment at the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, projected Vietnam’s economy will continue its high growth in 2019. The labour market will shift to need less unskilled workers and demand more skilled ones for better quality. In 2019, about 56 million labourers will obtain employment. The number of unskilled workers still accounts for 26.5 percent of the workforce, while that of labourers working in personal services, … [Read more...] about 2019 workforce sees thousands of new jobs added

Leader of the opposition Future Forward Party Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit (Source: Bangkok Post)   Hanoi (VNA) - The Constitutional Court of Thailand on November 20 disqualified leader of the opposition Future Forward Party Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit as a member of parliament for illegally owning shares in a media company while running for election last March. The Constitution of Thailand bars those who own or hold shares in media business from registering for an election, to prevent them from using the media to their own advantage or to the disadvantage of rivals. Thanathorn, once seen as a rising star in Thai politics, had argued that he transferred all the shares to his mother on January 8, almost a month before the five-day poll registration period began on February 4. However, the court found that relevant authorities did not receive proper notification of the share transfer until March 21, three days before the election. The Future Forward Party currently controls … [Read more...] about Thai opposition party leader disqualified as MP

Chairwoman of the Bac Ninh People's Committee Nguyen Huong Giang (R) hosts a reception for Finnish Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto (Photo: VNA) Bac Ninh (VNA) – Chairwoman of the People's Committee of the northern province of Bac Ninh Nguyen Huong Giang on November 20 hosted a reception for Finnish Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto, during which the two sides discussed the treatment of wastes. The foreign diplomat described the event as one of the practical activities aimed at pushing up the relations between the two countries. Over the recent past, Finland has been cooperating with Vietnam in general and Bac Ninh province in particular in various fields, especially waste treatment, the ambassador said, adding his embassy has been providing active support to the country’s firms in implementing projects in Vietnam, most recently the waste-to-energy plant in Bac Ninh’s Que Vo district. He expressed his hope that Bac Ninh leading officials will continue supporting and … [Read more...] about Finland helps Bac Ninh province in waste-to-energy technology

At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin (VAVA) and the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Hanoi on November 20. The signing is to mark the 75th anniversary of atomic bombing in Japan (1945-2020) and the 60th year of dioxin disaster in Vietnam (1961-2021). Under the MoU, the two sides will support each other in activities to raise global awareness of the losses and consequences of atomic bombs and AO/dioxin. They will also call on all countries to participate in and comply with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as well as the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions; and work towards the abolition of those weapons and the assistance for victims.  In addition, the sides will work towards the 2020 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference and mark the 75th year … [Read more...] about Dioxin victims’ association, Japan’s bomb counterpart bolster cooperation

Defence Minister Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) - Senior officials of Vietnam and Russia have discussed contents and measures to further promote bilateral defence cooperation in line with the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. At a reception in Hanoi on November 20 for Vladimir Nikolaevich Drozhzhov, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation and Chairman of the Russian Sub-committee of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-Government Committee for Military Technical Cooperation, Minister of National Defence Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich spoke highly of the outcomes of the committee’s 21st meeting. Lich affirmed that the Vietnamese army and people always keep in mind and are grateful to the people of the former Soviet Union and current Russian Federation for their wholehearted, valuable and effective support and assistance to Vietnam during its past struggle for national liberation and present cause of national … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Russia step up military technical cooperation