VGP - Việt Nam sent 16,851 guest workers overseas in the first three months of this year, according to the Overseas Labor Management Department under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
April 14, 2010 3:19 PM GMT+7
By
the end of March, the number of Vietnamese guest workers in Taiwan
reached over
80,000
Taiwan continued to be Việt Nam’s biggest labor export recipient with 4,567
Vietnamese guest workers receiving in the first quarter, followed by the UAE
with 3,553, Bahrain with
1,204, Libya with 1,063 and Japan with
1,046.
By the end of March, the number of
Vietnamese guest workers in Taiwan
was over 80,000, standing behind Indonesia only.
Việt Nam’s labor export is predicted to
be promising this year because the world economy is recovering.
The country sent nearly 75,000
people abroad for working last year, realizing 83% of its plan. Of the guest
workers, 21,677 were
sent to Taiwan, 7,578 to the
Republic of Korea,
and 5,456 to Japan.