Vietnam sent 50,980 experts and workers to work abroad in the first seven months of 2008, realizing roughly 60 percent of its target set for the year, according to a local labor agency on Thursday.
Between January and July, China's Taiwan was Vietnam's biggest labor export market with 19,813 Vietnamese employees going there, followed by South Korea with 9,281, Malaysia with 6,491, Japan with 2,945, China's Macao with 1,595, and Saudi Arabia with 1,283,said the Overseas Labor Management Department under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The number of local employees going to such new markets as the United States, Australia, the Czech Republic, Canada, Russia and Brunei is still limited because they require higher professional and language skills of guest workers, and have stricter regulations on labor and visas.
To send 85,000 people abroad for working this year, Vietnam is focusing on fostering human resource development so that it can expand labor export in the traditional markets, and penetrate into new ones. The ministry is offering bigger assistance to vocational training establishments and labor export enterprises nationwide, the department said.
In 2007, Vietnamese employees in over 40 countries and regions remitted home about 1.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Source: Xinhua
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