Vietnam to send 90,000 workers abroad in 2013

In 2012, Vietnam sent 80,000 workers overseas, down 10 percent as scheduled. Of which, Japan, South Korea, China's Taiwan and Malaysia accounted for 70 percent. South Korea is the third largest market, hiring over 10,000 Vietnamese people. However, since August 2012, the country tightened recruitment for Vietnamese workers due to a large number of illegal over-staying workers.
To solve the problem, MOLISA will require the workers to make a deposit at home before leaving the country, together with other responsibility. With this move, the ministry said it can send 12, 000-15,000 labors to South Korea in 2013.
In 2010, Vietnam had to withdraw more than 10,000 workers to return home from Libya due to the local political crisis. MOLISA has plans to send 5,000 workers to Libya this year.
New markets, including Cyprus, Angola, Algeria and Hawaii account for only 3.1 percent of Vietnamese guest workers, reported the ministry.
According to the National Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, as the end of 2012 there are about 4 million Vietnamese who are living, studying or working in 101 countries and regions, of which 400,000 are guest workers.
Remittances sent home by overseas Vietnamese in 2012 would reach 10 billion to 11 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 20 percent compared with the average 10 percent to 15 percent in previous years, reported the committee.
Source: Xinhua