Enhanced administrative center

Ha Long pilots settlement of administrative procedures at post offices. - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Quang Ninh (VNA) – Authorities of Ha Long city of the northern province of Ha Long on August 15 piloted the implementation of administrative procedure at post offices in the locality. Under the pilot project, post offices are to process a number of district-level administrative procedures in Ha Long. The project aims to further improve the quality of service to the people, making it easy for them in carrying out administrative procedures, helping reduce the time for travel and minimise bureaucracy and negativity among officials and civil servants. It is also expected to concretise guidelines and policies of the Party and State in digital transformation, building a digital government, economy and society; and promote the role of the public postal service in applying digitalisation in performing administrative services. In the first phase, the project will focus … [Read more...] about Quang Ninh: Ha Long pilots settlement of administrative procedures at post offices

The center will provide logistics and e-commerce services in the capital city and the northern region of Vietnam. A transportation and logistics center and a cross belt automatic sorting system were launched by Vietnam Post on August 15 in Me Linh District, on the outskirts of Hanoi. Vietnam Post's cross belt automatic sorting system. Photo: Vietnam Post The 28,000 m2 center is expected to facilitate goods circulation as well as international mail and postal shipment exchange for 21 northern provinces and cities. This is an important infrastructure in providing logistics and e-commerce services in the Northern region and Hanoi, meeting the needs of Vietnam Post, the Vietnamese postal service provider, and the diverse requirements of customers in the context of the growing e-commerce scene. The cross belt automatic sorting system at the center ha s a capacity of more than 24,000 packages per hour. With the application of artificial intelligence, the … [Read more...] about Hanoi has new transportation and logistics center

It also aims to achieve an 80 percent satisfaction level for healthcare and educational services by 2020. The targets are part of the city’s implementation of the National Assembly’s Resolution No 54 on piloting special policies for HCM City. To help the city develop rapidly and sustainably until 2020, the municipal authorities aim to improve administration in finance, land and human resources. The People’s Committee said that reform of administrative procedures has been conducted closely in all localities at all levels, with focus on simplifying administrative procedures in land management and construction. The city has set up a working group headed by the chairman of the People’s Committee to handle procedures regarding investment. Implementation of one-door and one-stop-shop policies, and registration and return of administrative records through postal services have been carried out. Attention has also been paid to improving the quality of cadres and officials to achieve … [Read more...] about HCM City strives to improve administrative services

At the meeting (Photo:VNA) The event took place in the context that Vietnam and the Republic of Korea are going to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries (December 22, 1922 –2022). According to statistics of the Vietnam Labor Administration in the Republic of Korea, 205,000 Vietnamese people are living, studying and working in South Korea, including 27,000 workers under the EPS program. Head of EPS Vietnam Office in the Republic of Korea Pham Minh Duc directly propagandized, guided new policies and laws related to EPS labor and answered questions concerning contracts, salaries, paying and receiving insurance of all kinds, procedures for contracts termination and receiving back the deposit in Vietnam for Vietnamese workers in Ansan City and neighboring provinces and cities. By Phuong Nam- Translated by Huyen Huong … [Read more...] about Vietnamese laborers in RoK receive legal consultations

Japan will give post-COVID-19 support to over 100 overseas Japanese-invested projects, including more than 40 in Vietnam, but the Southeast Asian country needs to overcome certain challenges facing them, a Japanese trade official said. Nobuyuki Matsumoto, chief representative of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)’s Ho Chi Minh City Office, released the information at a press briefing held recently at the twin launch of the upcoming METALEX Vietnam Exhibition and Supporting Industry Exhibition 2022 in October this year. Since 2021, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan has implemented an investment aid policy for Japanese firms abroad, aiming to diversify supply chains in the face of the heavy impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Matsumoto said. Among the 103 Japanese-invested projects selected by the Japanese government after five rounds of consideration for support, Vietnam took the lead with 41 projects, followed by Thailand with 25, and Malaysia and … [Read more...] about Vietnam emerges as focus of Japan’s post-pandemic supply chain diversification

The move aims to facilitate Vietnamese citizens in Germany to obtain residence permits and conduct other administrative procedures. Germany has recognized the validity of the newly introduced Vietnamese passport after the Vietnamese authorities agreed to add information about the holder's place of birth, according to the German Embassy in Hanoi. Accordingly, Germany will begin issuing visas for Vietnamese holders of the new passport as long as it is added information about the place of birth on the observations page. In its announcement, the German Federal Foreign Office said it appreciated Vietnam's timely solution to this issue. The embassy said the move would facilitate Vietnamese citizens in Germany in processing residence permit applications and conducting other administrative formalities. The newly introduced passport of Vietnam. Photo: Xuan Ha Earlier, the German Embassy in Vietnam on July 27 informed that Vietnam’s new passports, whose issuance … [Read more...] about Germany accepts Vietnamese redesigned passport

The city is keen to avoid any Covid-19 impacts that could derail its plan for socio-economic recovery for this year. The Hanoi People's Committee has urged local agencies to remain vigilant against the Covid-19 pandemic and accelerate the disbursement of public funds, seen as a key task for socio-economic recovery for the rest of the year. Electronics production at Rhythm Precision Vietnam, Soc Son District, Hanoi. Photo: Pham Hung Among the key tasks, the city would focus on the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out by providing boosters for eligible people, including the completion of vaccination for children aged 5-12 before September 2022, noted the municipal People’s Committee in a directive. The city’s authorities reiterated public investment is a key task for economic development and considered pubic fund disbursement a key criterion to evaluate the performance of each agency, department, and unit by year-end, especially leaders and senior officials. “Efforts … [Read more...] about Hanoi boosts socio-economic growth, but remains vigilant against Covid-19

With the expansion of the Covid-19 pandemic, foreign embassies in Hanoi recommended expats avoid leaving Vietnam. As the Covid-19 pandemic is expanding, foreign diplomatic representations in Vietnam have updated the situation either in their websites or Facebook pages, helped their citizens carry out administrative formalities to return home and warned them not to leave the Vietnam. The Biristh embassy in Vietnam told Hanoitimes via email that the embassy highly appreciated the Vietnamese government's response to Covid-19. “The system has been quick to identify and isolate cases. The WHO has commended the response,” the embassy wrote. The embassy has advised all British citizens in Vietnam to follow and update information about Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice. “We are providing consular assistance to the British people affected. We advise all British nationals in Vietnam to follow our travel advice, which is kept under constant review,” the embassy wrote. … [Read more...] about Foreign embassies in Vietnam issue travel advisory on Covid-19 complications

Nowadays online shopping becomes more popular than in-store shopping The new Law on Tax Administration which took effect in mid-2020 has added regulations on the responsibilities of relevant ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Bank of Vietnam in tax administration for e-commerce business activities. Plus, the Decree No. 126/2020 also details e-commerce business for individuals. Accordingly, if an organization does business with an individual, the individual does not directly declare tax, but the organization is responsible for declaring VAT on the entire revenue of business cooperation activities, regardless of the form of business cooperation results. At the same time, the organization declares and pays personal income tax on behalf of the individual. Accordingly, with this provision, local businesses which cooperate with a foreign party shall pay tax on behalf of the … [Read more...] about Vietnam to tighten management, increase supervision to prevent tax loss

In the next two days, the trough, which lies off the south-central coast, will cause heavy rains in the afternoon and evening across the southern region, said Le Dinh Quyet, deputy head of the forecasting department at the Southern Region Hydro-Meteorological Center. Heavy rains in collaboration with seasonal tides will cause urban flooding in HCMC, according to the center. HCMC received the heaviest rainfall of the year on Monday. Lasting for four hours, the rainfall was measured at 113 millimeters at a station on Ly Thuong Kiet Street of District 10. A total 47 streets across the city were flooded, including those in the downtown area of districts 1 and 3, turning traffic into chaos. According to HCMC Infrastructure Management Center, the high rain volume exceeded the designed capacity of the city’s drainage system, further affected by a multitude of construction sites. Quyet said the rainy season has arrived earlier this year with higher rain volume due to impacts of the … [Read more...] about Heavy rain to lash HCMC until weekend