HANOI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam created some 613,800 jobs in the first five months of 2016, down 3.8 percent year-on-year, according to Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on Monday.
The five-month figure accounted for 38.3 percent of the whole year's estimate, Deputy Minister of MoLISA Dao Hong Lan was quoted by local Bao Dau Tu (Vietnam Investment Review) online newspaper on Monday.
Among the figure, as many as 573,000 labors work domestically, down 4 percent year-on-year while the rest of 40,800 labors work overseas, down 1.2 percent year-on-year.
In 2016, the MoLISA targeted to create 1.5-1.6 million jobs, among which, some 1.4-1.5 million jobs are domestically while around 100,000 Vietnamese people are supposed to work abroad.
In 2015, a total of over 1.62 million jobs were created in Vietnam, said a report by the Vietnamese government in late March.
