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Hanoi (VNA) – Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one in six young people have stopped working, while those remaining in employment have seen their working hours decrease by 23 percent, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ‘ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work, 4th edition’ shows that young people are being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. It also shows the substantial and rapid increase in youth unemployment seen since February is affecting young women more than young men. A ‘shock’ to young people The latest analysis updates the estimates for the reduction in working hours in the first and second quarters of 2020, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. An estimated 4.8 percent of all working hours were lost during the first quarter (equivalent to approximately 135 million full-time jobs, assuming a 48-hour working week). The number of jobs lost in the second quarter was at 305 million. … [Read more...] about ILO: COVID-19 causes loss of 305 million of jobs in the second quarter

The Party Committee, People’s Council and People’s Committee of Si Ma Cai have also agreed to transfer the local budget for poverty reduction to the VBSP with over 28 billion VND trusted to the bank in the past five years. This has helped raise the total outstanding balance of the VBSP in the district as of the end of 2019 to 220 billion VND, 90 billion VND higher than that in the end of 2014. … [Read more...] about Capital convergence helps boost poverty reduction

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar with a full moon at night. During the festival, Vietnamese people often arrange trays with moon cakes, candies and fruits. … [Read more...] about Mid-Autumn festival: A warm reunion festival for Vietnamese

Tokyo (VNA) – Two Vietnamese interns have gone missing after Super Typhoon Haishen swept through Kyushu Island, southwest of Japan, on early September 7, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka prefecture confirmed. The interns were working at the Aioigumi Joint Stock Company in Miyazaki prefecture, located on Kyushu Island. Prior to the landing of Haishen, concerned that the two interns’ accommodation near the company might be unsafe in the storm, the director suggested them to take shelter at his house, which was also the firm’s office and had stronger structure. However, the Consulate General said, the powerful typhoon triggered a landslide on a mountain there, making this house collapse into the bank of a nearby river. The two Vietnamese interns, together with the director’s wife and child, went missing as a result. Meanwhile, the director was injured and hospitalised. Japanese authorities are searching for the missing. Vietnamese Consul General in … [Read more...] about Two Vietnamese interns in Japan go missing in Typhoon Haishen

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is a regional parliamentary organisation. It was originally formed on September 2, 1977 as the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organisation (AIPO) by the leaders of the parliamentary delegations of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand attending the Third ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Manila, the Philippines. In 1995, Việt Nam became a member, followed by Laos in 1997, Cambodia in 1999, and Brunei in 2009. At the 27th AIPO General Assembly held in Cebu city, the Philippines in 2006, there was a consensus to transform the organisation into a more effective and closely integrated institution and to change the organisation's name from AIPO to AIPA. — VNS … [Read more...] about 41st General Assembly of ASEAN inter-parliamentary organisation kicks off