Foreign markets to reopen door for Vietnamese workers
(VOVWORLD) - Foreign markets such as Japan, Germany, and Taiwan (China) will open to Vietnamese workers yet again, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Between late August and early September, the Ministry will issue permits for over 200 trainee nurses to work and study in Japan under the two countries’ Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). They were scheduled to head to Japan last May, but their departure was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the German Embassy in Vietnam was recently allowed to grant visas to Vietnamese citizens taking up apprenticeships in the European country. Germany earlier granted visas to Vietnamese trainee nurses.
Taiwan (China) has already welcomed a number of Vietnamese workers who were granted visas prior to the pandemic. Vietnam aims to send 130,000 workers abroad this year but has sent only 33,000 due to the coronavirus.