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Administrative procedures conducted online have the same legal validity as other forms, according to the Prime Minister’s Decree No 45/2020/ND-CP.

The HCM City People’s Committee has directed government departments and the administrations of all 24 districts to increase the public services available online to limit the number of people who have to visit government offices amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered ministries, sectors and localities to boost the disbursement of public investment capital and consider this as the most important measure to make up for the losses the COVID-19 epidemic causes to economic growth.

The HCM City Real Estate Association (HoREA) has called on the Government to resolve problems related to legal and administrative procedures and access to funding and cut lending interest rates to revive the property market.

The Government’s new decree on automobile transportation is expected to help get the transportation market back on track, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Vietnam plans to hasten the reform of customs checks to save time and costs for businesses and facilitate trade.

The capital city of Hanoi granted investment licences to 68 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth 30.2 million USD in January, according to the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh granted approval decisions and investment licences to four projects with accumulative registered capital exceeding 111 billion VND (4.7 million USD) in January.

The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau aims to have all of its administrative procedures handled through its electronic one-stop information system this year.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to improve the levels of public satisfaction in administrative services if it wants to develop sustainably, Tran Luu Quang, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee, said.

The Prime Minister has approved a project on accelerating the supply of level-four online services in the field of insurance and other public services based on data sharing between the Vietnam Social Security and related sectors.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang is working hard to improve its investment environment with the aim of attracting at least eight projects with total capital expected to stand at 80 million USD in 2020.

Over 4,100 papers have been submitted online to the national public service portal since its launch on December 9, accounting for 19 percent of the total.

The Vietnamese Government, for years, has been focusing on enhancing administrative reforms to improve the business environment, said Mai Tien Dung, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on November 13 launched its public services portal, offering better public access to online administrative procedures.

Companies will be able to apply for import licences online from November 1 this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Foreign Trade Agency.

The northern province of Hai Duong recently launched its Local Government Service Platform (LGSP) and public services portal.

Ho Chi Minh City greeted more than 6.2 million foreign visitors in the first nine months of 2019, representing a year-on-year increase of 14.3 percent, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

The People’s Committee of central Quang Tri province has approved in principle three wind power projects with a combined investment capital of nearly 5 trillion VND (215.6 million USD), online newspaper baodautu.vn reported.

The Government Office, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the USAID Linkages for Small and Medium Enterprises (LinkSME) in Hanoi on September 24.