Last updated: 16:15 - September 6, 2006
Vietnam sends 50,000 workers abroad in eight months http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/060906/life_vietnam.htm
Vietnam sent more than 50,000 workers abroad in the first eight months of the year, according to the Overseas Workers Management Division of the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).
While working to maintain their traditional markets, such as Malaysia, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Japan, labour exporters have been looking for new markets in the Middle-East, Australia and some European countries, said Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, deputy head of the division.
Airserco, a labour export company of the Vietnam Airlines Corporation, for instance, has just won a contract to send 6,500 workers to Qatar from now till the end of the year. At present, 750 Airserco's guest workers are working in hotel and construction services in Qatar, director Nguyen Xuan Vui said.
The Overseas Workers Management Division rated Qatar as a potential labour market due to a high demand of foreign labourers in various jobs. A manual worker in Qatar can earn a monthly average income of VND 5-7 million. For better management of labour export activity, MOLISA is working with relevant agencies as well as Vietnam's consulates in foreign countries to prevent Vietnamese labourers from working illegally, Quynh added. (VNA)
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