The World Bank (WB) approved a loan of 750 million USD on November 13 to help boost digital transformation in the Philippines.

The capital city of Hanoi has created jobs for 113,418 workers in the first six months of this year, achieving 70% of the year’s plan thanks to the implementation of numerous solutions, including increasing the frequency of job fairs.

The People's Council of Da Nang city has just approved a resolution on the Da Nang city Master Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 which will be soon submitted to the government for approval.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto said that the Indonesian Government has set a goal to attract 1,650 trillion IDR (over 108 billion USD) in investment in 2024.

Thailand’s cabinet has approved a budget worth 3.5 billion THB (100 million USD) to hire more than 68,000 recent graduates and jobless people nationwide through BCG (bio-, circular and green) projects to kick-start the job market as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to subside.

The number of Vietnamese people going to work abroad decreased over the last two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Economic development and business expansion are crucial to job creation, which in itself is significant for sustainable poverty reduction, according to Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung.

Sending Vietnamese labourers to work abroad is among important and efficient channels in job creation, which helps raise income for workers.

The Sun Gate Group on November 16 inaugurated the first stage of Rong May (Cloud Dragon) Bridge ecological tourism site, as part of Thac Trang (White Falls) tourism project in Son Binh commune.

A conference discussing ways to promote cooperation in social security between Vietnam and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) was jointly held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) in Hanoi on December 19.

Vietnam records over 1.2 million people with disabilities in working age who need vocational training support.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) form a core sector of the Indonesian economy and contribute significantly to economic growth, job creation and innovation

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is now home to over 6,500 enterprises, which play a significant role in manufacturing, job creation, and local budget collection, according to Chairman of the provincial Business Association Duong Tuan Anh.

Measures to develop nearly 7,000 new enterprises by 2020 were top of the agenda of a meeting organised by Can Thơ city’s People’s Committee and relevant agencies on May 23.

ASEAN citizens, especially youth with digital and technological savvy, need to build and improve their skills to develop further in the future, according to an article on Indonesia’s Jakarta Globe.

A host of solutions for the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to ensure sustainable poverty reduction have been proposed at a seminar on May 16.

Vietnam aims to create 1.6 million jobs in 2017

More than 41,400 new jobs were created in HCM City in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 0.49 percent.

Jobs in Vietnam will increase by 14.5 percent by 2025, thanks to the country’s participation in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) forecasts.