On December 04th, 2019, in Hanoi, Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) in cooperation with Asia - Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood held the Asia - Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development 2019. The Conference with the theme "Working across sectors to promote nurturing and sustainable environments for young children". Attending the Conference were Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, Chairman of the National Committee for children; Minister of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung; Director of East Asia - Pacific UNICEF Karin Hulshof; Director of Asia - Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood Sheldon Shaeffer; Director of Asia - Pacific UNESCO Shigeru Aoyagi; and the Ministers, Head of the Delegations from the countries, territories in the Asia - Pacific region; 530 representatives from 35 countries and territories in the Region; 44 international organization, NGOs, experts, researchers.
On December 03rd, 2019, in Hanoi, Minister of Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi had a discussion on the priorities, initiatives and activities in socio-cultural channel ASEAN 2020 and the abilities of cooperation, support of ASEAN Secretariat for Vietnam in the ASEAN Chairmanship 2020.
On December 2nd, 2019, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) held a conference to popularise and prepare for the ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020. Attending the event were Mr. Lim Jock Hoi, ASEAN Secretary General; Mr. Kung Phoak, ASEAN Deputy Secretary General for ASEAN Socio-Cultrural Community; Leadership representatives from the Departments; the focal point officials of international cooperation and ASEAN of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Ministries, sectors of ASEAN Socio-Cultrural Community in Vietnam and officials from ASEAN Secretariat.
On November 27th, 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand, the Asia – Pacific Ministerial Conference on 25 years of implementation of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
Vietnamese future work belong to the selection decision, Vietnam has shown the decision through the improvement of skills for labour force, widening the coverage of social security, and modernization of the labour relationship institution - these are the message announced in the Vietnamese Labour Forum 2019 with the theme "Future of Work - the Choice of Vietnam" held on November 27th, 2019, in Hanoi. The event was jointly held by the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), partners and the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Country Office for Vietnam. Deputy Minister Le Van Thanh attended and had an opening speech.