5:21:15 PM | 24/9/2009
Around 13,000 foreigners work in Ho Chi Minh City, the southern economic hub of Vietnam without permits, making up 76.5% of the city’s total number of foreign workers.
Most of unlicensed laborers belong to Chinese and Taiwanese firms, said the municipal Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
The department surveyed 2,000 local enterprises and fined some of them on charge of employing illegal foreign workers.
The city is expected to grant licenses to 1,000 foreign workers in the future.
Ho Chi Minh City now has more than 4.4 million people of working age. (Saigon Economic Times)
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