Visa for foreigners living in Vietnam will be issued online via the National Public Service Portal in 2021.

Experts attending a workshop in Hanoi on March 12 suggested creating an equal competition environment and reforming the system of State resources allocation to spur the development of the private economic sector in Vietnam.

One of the highlights in the e-government building of Vietnam in the last two years is the inauguration of the National Public Service Portal on December 9, 2019, reported the Government Office at a meeting of the National Committee for E-Government on March 10.

National digital transformation will not only be conducted at State and Government agencies but go far beyond, especially at enterprises, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong told a Government press conference on January 4.

The number of services provided via the National Public Service Portal has reached 2,700 after four new ones made debut on December 30, expected to help save VND8 trillion (US$346.9 million) each year.

VOV.VN - US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Vietnam Mission Director Bradley Bessire and Vietnam’s Office of the Government (OOG) Chairman Mai Tien Dung participated in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony between USAID and OOG on October 13.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a public service workforce plan for 2021.

A national workshop on developing e-Government and an online public service portal towards digital government was jointly held by the Vietnam Digital Media Association and the International Data Group (IDG) in Vietnam on September 17 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The National Reporting Platform was launched at a ceremony in Hanoi on August 19.

The General Department of Taxation has reported that it has completed the integration of additional 27 administrative procedures into the national public service portal, lifting the total number of online public services provided through the portal to 120