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Australia, New Zealand and Canada have emerged as the three countries that have been designated as the easiest English-speaking countries to get work visa.

Pacific labour mobility overall has had an impact of the sort that foreign aid could never hope to have, write Howes, Curtain and Sharman.

The number of Vietnamese guest workers working overseas under contracts exceeded 59,600 in the first five months of this year, or 54.2% of the annual plan and over 1.9 times higher than the same period last year, showing positive signals from overseas employment, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

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