VOV.VN - Despite progress made, there is a pressing need to accelerate administrative reforms, enhance the quality of public services, and reduce disparities in public satisfaction across different social and demographic groups in Vietnam, according to the 2024 PAPI report released on April 15.

Scams involving fake public service software registration and quick investment profits are well-known and continuously warned against by authorities, yet people continue to lose their assets to these schemes.

VOV.VN - The San Francisco City Board of Supervisors (USA) on June 11 voted unanimously to declare Vietnamese as an official language in the city, requiring translation services for government announcements, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

VOV.VN - Despite facing global headwinds, Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest economic-financial centre that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021-2022, secured high growth in 2023, creating an essential prerequisite for the city to move ahead in 2024 and beyond.

France will step up cooperation with Vietnam in ensuring public service transparency and anti-corruption works, affirmed visiting French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Stanislas Guérini at his meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai in Hanoi on December 1.

Representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs and the French Ministry of Public Transformation and Service exchanged experience in modernising public services, reforming administrative procedures, and raising digital transformation capacity, at a symposium in Hanoi on November 30.

Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra held talks with French Minister of Public Transformation and Service Stanislas Guérini in Hanoi on November 30.

The entire process for granting e-visas, from applying for, processing requests to issuing visas and paying fees, is now carried out online, said the Vietnam Immigration Department of the Ministry of Public Security.

Over 644,000 payment transactions with a total value of more than VND279 billion (over US$11.8 million) were processed through the National Public Service Portal in January, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

VOV.VN - The 13th National Party Congress has identified national digital transformation as a hugely important task, associated with three main pillars, including digital government, digital economy, and digital society as digital transformation greatly affects the whole population.