25/07/2024 08:15 AM

The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) on July 15 released its Business Confidence Index (BCI) report for the second quarter of 2024, which reveals a marginal decline from 52.8 in Q1 to 51.3 in Q2, underscoring the necessity for ongoing policy adjustments to maintain momentum.

25/07/2024 06:35 AM

Ensuring people’s safety, health is the Government's foremost task. Since being approved by the 14th National Assembly in April 2021, the Government has experienced an unprecedented year full of challenges, 36 years on from the beginning of Đổi mới (Renewal). However, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV), and with reasonable decisions and policies adopted in different periods, the Government has firmly sailed through the tough year, recovering economic activities and ensuring social welfare.

22/07/2024 09:14 AM

Educate people about social security and developing vocational skills for young people has always received attention from countries, the United Nations and international agencies and organisations. The active participation of young people helped society develop to ensure inclusiveness, stability and sustainability.

22/07/2024 09:08 AM

The Vietnamese Party and State have issued various policies and guidelines to offer concrete, practical, and effective support to war invalids, sick soldiers, relatives of martyrs, and others who rendered service to the revolution, considering this a key and regular political task. As of now, 99% of the families of revolution contributors have living standards equal to or above the local average.

22/07/2024 09:06 AM

The relations between Việt Nam and the RoK thirty years after the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties in 1992 is about so much more than enjoying each other's iconic dishes. The two countries, in fact, have taken great strides in all spheres, especially in economic, social, and cultural aspects.

22/07/2024 09:06 AM

Unemployment protection, as introduced in the ILO Employment Promotion and Protection Against Unemployment Convention, 1988 (No. 168), is a combination of income security measures (under the form of contributory or social assistance schemes) aimed at guaranteeing a certain standard of living for workers until they can return to work and policies to help unemployed workers increase their employability and search for new jobs.

22/07/2024 08:38 AM

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) keeps the growth outlook for Việt Nam in 2024 and 2025 unchanged at 6 percent and 6.2 percent respectively, on the back of a strong first-half performance.

19/07/2024 11:55 AM

Under ILO, employment from a people-centric perspective (i.e. whether an individual is employed, underemployed or unemployed), rather than focusing on a job as the unit of analysis. The “employed” comprise all persons who worked for pay, profit or family gain for at least one hour in the reference week plus the number of persons who are temporarily absent from their jobs (ILO, 2013a, para. 27 ff.).