Online job market shows signs of recovery

Online job market shows signs of recovery

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

The online job market continues to show signs of bouncing back as in the third quarter of 2009 it saw a growing demand for personnel.

Statistics released on Nov. 4 by VietnamWorks.com, the country’s biggest provider of online recruitment services, show that the personnel demand index surged by 11.4 percent against the second quarter.

Up to 24 out of a total of 50 sectors saw demand for personnel rise, while only five industries witnessed their demand fall during the reviewed period. The agro-forestry sector’s job demand index enjoyed the highest increase, double that of the previous three months.

However, VietnamWorks.com also states that the worker supply index had dropped by 2.8 percent from the second quarter. The index grows in seven sectors amongst the 50 sectors.

This trend has helped to narrow the gap between the supply and demand for workers and eases the pressure on job seekers, it said.

VietnamWorks.com’s General Director Chris Harvey said that the recovery of the economy and companies in general has warmed up the job market, with a lot of recruitment taking place.

During the past three months, a new trend regarding the recruitment of senior-level foreign managers has appeared, named ‘employing international staff at local salaries’.

An increasing number of foreigners and overseas Vietnamese have come to Vietnam to find work due to impacts of the global economic crisis. However, the demand for senior level foreign managers is low, therefore the supply index is higher than the demand

index.

Despite the narrowed gap between supply and demand, the personnel competition index remained unchanged compared with the previous quarter. Administrative-secretarial work, the import-export sector, personnel management, customer services, translators and interpreters saw the fiercest competition.

However, Harvey said that the competition had created an incentive for workers to pursue their studies further and improve their professional qualifications.

Source: VNA

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EU-ASEAN workshop on food safety opens in Hanoi

EU-ASEAN workshop on food safety opens in Hanoi

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

The European Union (EU) and the Vietnam’s Food Hygiene and Safety Department (FHSD) coorganised a workshop on the rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) on November 3 in Hanoi.

The EU-ASEAN workshop aimed to maintain the sustainable national and regional RASFFs in the ASEAN region and deepen cooperation with the EU’s RASFF.

FHSD’s deputy director Nguyen Hung Long said Vietnam and other nations in the region are setting up a rapid alert system for food and feed which provides control authorities with effective tools for information exchange on food safety measures.

Source: VNA

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Seminar helps raise media’s role in HIV/AIDS prevention

Seminar helps raise media’s role in HIV/AIDS prevention

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

A seminar to collect suggestions for a set of principles for best press practices in HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on November 5.

At the seminar, co-organised by the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), journalists from several central and local newspapers and a number of television channels discussed and pooled their ideas for a common code of best practices when conducting information and education activities in HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, to stamp out discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.

The seminar also put forward recommendations for journalists writing news items on the issue.

Vietnam is now home to around 140,000 people with HIV, mainly from the ages of 20 to 39. The HIV infection rate amongst men is four times higher than that of women and the number of men with HIV accounts for over 82 percent of those infected.

Provinces and cities that reported the highest rates of HIV/AIDS at the end of 2008 include Dien Bien, Son La, Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Yen Bai, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Together with strong information campaigns and more education about HIV/AIDS prevention and control, Vietnam has carried out many programmes that have provided health care and treatment for HIV/AIDS victims.

At present, thousands of people are receiving treatment and have access to free consultations and testing services.

Source: VNA

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Urgent aids to Typhoon Mirinae victims

Urgent aids to Typhoon Mirinae victims

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

Vietnam will provide 225 billion VND (12.6 million USD) and 10,000 tonnes of rice to central and Central Highlands provinces to help them overcome the consequences of Typhoon Mirinae.

According to decision No. 1779/QD-TTg dated November 4, beneficiaries will be Binh Dinh province, which will receive 70 billion VND and 3,000 tonnes of rice; Phu Yen province, 100 billion VND and 4,000 tonnes of rice; Khanh Hoa province, 20 billion VND and 1,000 tonnes of rice; Ninh Thuan province, 5 billion VND; and Gia Lai province, 30 billion VND and 2,000 tonnes of rice.

The decision said that financial support is expected to help local people resume agricultural production, repair damaged infrastructure and prevent diseases.

On November 4, the Vietnam Red Cross gave a relief aid package worth 600 million VND in kind to storm-hit families in Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan provinces. It also provided two million VND to each victim’s family.

The Japan Tobacco International (JTI), on the same day, provided funding to the Vietnam Red Cross to build flood-resistant houses for households in flood-prone areas. The funding is part of JTI’s three-year plan to build 100 houses of this kind in Vietnam.

Statistics from the Central Steering Committee on Flood and Storm Prevention and Control showed that Typhoon Mirinae, the 11th storm to hit Vietnam so far this year, killed at least 116 people after it slammed into Vietnam’s central coastal provinces on November 2. Phu Yen province is the hardest-hit with 69 fatalities.

Source: VNA

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A/H1N1 flu death toll reaches 38

A/H1N1 flu death toll reaches 38

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

Vietnam has had a total of 38 fatalities in over 10,600 A/H1N1 flu cases in 61 provinces and cities nationwide, according to Director of the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine and Environment Nguyen Huy Nga.

Nga was speaking on Nov. 4 at the weekly meeting of the steering committee for A/H1N1 pandemic prevention.

The only two provinces that had not found A/H1N1 flu cases were Bac Kan and Dien Bien.

The latest fatality was a 32-year-old Hanoian who died in HCM City on Nov. 3. His illness began 10 days earlier, with a fever, cough and sore throat. He was hospitalised in Tay Ninh hospital for treatment on Oct. 23 and transferred to the Tropical Diseases Hospital two days later due to his serious condition. He died after 10 days of treatment with Tamiflu due to serious respiratory failure and lung injury.

Previously, the Health Ministry had reported a second A/H1N1 fatality in Hanoi , a 38-year-old man living in Yen Ha ward, Yen Vien district.

Director of the National Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases Nguyen Van Kinh reported that two patients were infected with both the A/H1N1 virus and dengue fever at the same time. The two patients recovered after being treated for the two diseases with Tamiflu and a drip feed.

Kinh also told people to come to the hospital early on if they had a fever or any other possible A/H1N1 flu symptoms.

“There are five high-risk groups, including pregnant woman, the elderly, children under two and people with chronic diseases or chronic flu,” added Kinh.

Regarding the A/H1N1 flu vaccination issue, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Nguyen Tran Hien said that the World Health Organisation had committed to provide A/H1N1 vaccine for 10 percent of the population, accounting for 10 million doses.

“About 1.2 million doses are expected to come to Vietnam by mid December. So about 1.2 million people will first be vaccinated against the A/H1N1 virus,” said Hien.

Source: VNA

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WB supports Vietnam’s higher education reform project

WB supports Vietnam’s higher education reform project

QĐND – Thursday, November 05, 2009, 21:13 (GMT+7)

The World Bank (WB) will provide a 40-year soft loan of 33.6 million SDR (50 million USD) for Vietnam to implement the first phase of the Higher Education Development Policy Programme (HEDPP).

The programme’s objective is to support the implementation of a government project to modernise the higher education sector to meet the demand for high-quality human resources serving the national industrialisation and modernisation as well as the international economic integration.

On November 3, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung proposed that the State President consider approving the Sponsorship Agreement for the HEDPP.

The Sponsorship Agreement and relevant legal documents of the programme were signed earlier by State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Giau and WB representatives.

Source: VNA

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