In 2023, the Finnish government launched Talent Boost, a five-year program for the active recruitment and hiring of workers from EU/EEA states and four target countries: India, Brazil, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
The UK has deported 46 "foreign criminals and immigration offenders" to Vietnam and East Timor on a charter flight. They made use of flights planned by the previous government to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The number of Vietnamese migrants crossing the Channel to the United Kingdom has surged this year. Following the tragic deaths of 39 Vietnamese who were trying to get to Britain in a lorry nearly five years ago, more are attempting the journey by boat.
The British government has launched a social media campaign in Vietnam to warn potential migrants of the "consequences of entering the UK illegally." This follows a reported increase in Vietnamese migrants attempting to cross the English Channel.
Germany needs skilled workers from abroad, and its labor minister has just signed a relevant deal in Vietnam. But potential immigrants fear that racism in Germany is on the rise. Rosalia Romaniec reports from Vietnam.
Across Southeast Asia, interest in German is on the rise as the German government taps increasing numbers of the region's skilled workers to tackle the country's severe labor shortages.
Prosecutors in France are seeking a 10-year jail term for four men accused in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who suffocated to death in a lorry container in 2019. The Paris court described a vast network of irregular immigration and also wants to permanently ban the four Vietnamese men from France.
Marius Mihai Draghici was reportedly part of an international human smuggling ring that profited from trafficking people across Europe's borders. Draghici is the fifth man to be sentenced in a case that sparked widespread outrage.
A Vietnamese family faces imminent deportation after a last-ditch attempt to be granted residence failed. Pham Phi Son has lived in Germany for 35 years -- his daughter is due to start school this summer.
Vietnamese human trafficking syndicates have been targeted this year by pan-European police busts. However, the root causes of undocumented immigration remain.
Police in the UK have arrested a 32-year-old man suspected of having played a key role in the fatal Channel crossing incident one year ago. The man was detained in southwestern in the UK town of Cheltenham following a joint investigation by UK and French authorities.
The Lichtenhagen district in Rostock became infamous in 1992 as the scene of a racist riot against the Vietnamese and Roma communities. Some Vietnamese survivors feel even more bitter now about the lack of consequences.