07/11/2018 10:20 AM

The 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour held in Singapore on 29-30 October discussed how to maximize the potential of digitalization to promote decent work for migrant workers in the Asia Pacific region. Anna Engblom, senior expert on labour migration at the International Labour Organization (ILO), reviews the opportunities and challenges brought by digitalization in this area.

07/11/2018 09:35 AM

Social security professionals have identified the priority challenges for social security in Asia and the Pacific. Key issues relate to closing the coverage gap, meeting health and long-term care needs and the technological transition. These and other challenges require strategic and often innovative responses by social security policy-makers and administrators, according to a new report published by the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

07/11/2018 09:05 AM

The 19th ISSA International Conference of Social Security Actuaries, Statisticians and Investment Specialists will take place in Kuwait City, Kuwait, from 6 to 8 November 2018, at the invitation of The Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait.

07/11/2018 08:55 AM

VGP – As of October 20, as many as 2,458 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects were licensed in Viet Nam, worth more than US$15 billion, up 18.7% in terms of number and down 7.8% in capital against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

07/11/2018 12:00 AM

VGP – A total number of 109,611 new firms were established over the recent 10 months of 2018, with the registered capital of VND1,116 trillion, up 4.3% and 9.2% in terms of number and capital against the same period last year, respectively, according to the General Statistics Office.

03/11/2018 10:30 AM

According to the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), about one quarter of cooperatives registered the participation in compulsory social and health insurance for workers. Additionally, the number of cooperative members joining voluntary social insurance remains limited.

29/10/2018 07:00 AM

On October 11 and 12, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Tran Dinh Lieu chaired a scientific symposium on solutions to implement the Penal Code in dealing with crimes in the fields of social, health and unemployment insurance in Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh province. The event identified specific legal indications of insurance crimes and discussed contents in need of guidance in the resolution adopted by the Council of Justices of the Supreme People’s Court. It also defined the responsibility of the social insurance sector in undertaking criminal procedures to handle crimes in this field.

24/10/2018 11:31 AM

On October 8, 2018, the Government issued Resolution No.125/NQ-CP on the action programme to implement Resolution No.28-NQ/TW dated May 23, 2018 of the seventh plenary session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on social insurance policy reform