Provincial and local governments

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has recently signed Decision No.1911/QD-TTg dated November 15, 2001 on the connection and sharing between the national database on population with national and specialised databases.The connection and sharing of citizens’ information among databases must ensure confidentiality, cyber security and ...

The national population database center and the system for making, granting, and managing citizen identity cards made debut on June 22, and they will officially come into operation on July 1.It is an important event helping affirm the efforts to promote digital transformation in the ...

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education launched its electronic information and education system VCNET at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 11. The system is a joint project between the commission and the Military Industry Telecoms Group Viettel. All citizens can ...

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has issued a plan to implement a project on simplifying administrative procedures, citizen papers and databases related to population management in 2019.The collection of citizen information has reached about 86 percent, of which 16 localities have completed collecting population ...

The National Assembly Standing Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday, creating legal foundations for reduction of administrative units at district and communal levels. At present, Viet Nam’s administration is devided into central, provincial, district and communal levels. Keep reading    ...

There are 145 administrative procedures by relevant ministries and agencies which have been connected to the National Single Window (NSW), according to the latest data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.Notably, the number of such procedures in 2018 was up to 98, while from ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to reduce the number of civil servants by 2 percent to 259,590. This number would include all civil servants working in state agencies and administrative organizations, as also those working for Vietnam’s diplomatic missions overseas, special associations ...

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan has pointed out problems in the status of district- and commune-level administrative units, noting that over 80 percent of these units do not meet criteria in terms of area and population. Keep reading ...

The Government has recently issued Resolution No. 112/NQ-CP on simplifying administrative procedures and civil papers related to population management within the scope of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS)’s State management functions. Accordingly, the government approves the plan on replacing population management via household registration ...

The removal of 675 business and investment conditions by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is considered as a demonstration of the strong determination of the industry and trade sector to create the maximum favourable conditions for enterprises, contributing to building a government of ...