(VOVworld) - 115,000 workers are expected to go overseas for work this year, an 8.5% year on year increase.

Key labor export markets for Vietnam include Chinese Taiwan and Japan while new market for medicals workers in Germany and Japan has been expanded. There are half a million Vietnamese working in 40 countries and territories. Tong Hai Nam is in charge of labor export in the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs: “We have opened new markets and new occupational areas. We will open new markets in Chinese Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and the Middle East.”