Keyword: "e-payment"

E-payment has become an essential part of the daily lives of Malaysians, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on September 7 said that the government will introduce e-payments in the state sector as a key measure to combat corruption.

The central province of Thanh Hoa are applying measures to boost the development of e-commerce and speed up digital transformation to catch up with the current trend of the domestic and global economy.

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.

A ceremony has been held in Vientiane to mark two years of operation of U-Money e-wallet provided by Unitel, a joint venture between Viettel of Vietnam and a Lao company.

The shift towards electronic payment is now an established trend with half of Ho Chi Minh City’s public hospitals embracing it, health authorities have said.

Vietnam has recorded significant progress in applying cashless payment, especially in the public service field.

The daily average number of transactions reaches nearly 635,000 and the average transaction value reaches over 380,000 billion VND per day.

Venture capital funding pouring into Vietnamese fintech companies accounted for 36 percent of the total fintech investment in Southeast Asia.

Representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) have stressed the necessity to promote e-payment, and ensure safety in this method.

The Government has asked ministries, sectors and agencies to give advice to the Government and the Prime Minister on measures to deal with overlapping, incoherent and ambiguous legal regulations, mechanisms and policies.

The passing of the amended Law on Tax Management by the National Assembly is expected to improve the taxation on e-commerce activities.

The growth of the number of people making mobile payments in stores in Vietnam is at the fastest, according to the Global Consumer Insights Survey 2019 by PwC.

Delivery services providers in HCM City are working hard to meet the surge in demand in the run-up to Tet (Lunar New Year), the year’s biggest holiday.

Non-cash payments bring enormous benefits for individuals, banks and others, helping increase transparency while reducing social expenses relating to using cash.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Dam chaired a meeting on December 12 in Hanoi to review five years of implementing Resolution 19 regarding the enhancement of the business environment and national competitiveness, as well as measures to boost its efficiency in 2019.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a cabinet meeting on November 27 on the drafting of Resolution No.01 on major tasks and solutions to implement the socio-economic development and State budget estimate for 2019.

The capital city of Hanoi has implemented a wide range of measures to facilitate the sustainable development of e-commerce activities, which have grown rapidly recently.

The Government should create an ecosystem and suitable environment for new products and services as well as pioneer their use to promote the development of contactless payment methods. This could be a foundation for building e-government in Vietnam.

The VIetnam ICT Press Club recently announced the top 10 ICT events in 2017. This is the result voted for by more than 50 journalists in the information technology sector, from some 40 media agencies nationwide.