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 8 trillion VND (346.9 million USD) each year.
The novel coronavirus outbreak has changed the payment habit in Vietnam, with non-cash transactions particularly surging in the public service, Director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s Payment Department Pham Tien Dung said on December 4.
Bac Giang province will continue carrying out the e-government building programme in a comprehensive, timely and effective manner with a view to set up a digital government in the near future, according to Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications Tran Minh Chieu.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 16 attended the launch ceremony of the “VssID - Digital Social Insurance” – the mobile application of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS).
The youth in Vietnam is changing fast to adapt to the life in the Fourth Industrial Revolution amid the thriving digital transformation in the country.
Visa and NextTech Group on November 4 signed a three-year partnership to promote the adoption of digital payments among small business owners in Vietnam’s rapidly growing social commerce sector.
The HCM City Power Corporation (EVNHCMC) plans to complete the installation of electronic meters connected to a remote data collection system for all customers in the city next year.
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 Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) officially launched an application to buy train tickets and pay online on smartphones from July 15 to improve customer services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to forming online shopping and online payment habits, a trend that is likely to continue after the pandemic, held experts.
Non-cash payment methods have been implemented at hospitals around the country over recent years, and despite initial bewilderment among patients the new and convenient way of paying has now found favour and been beneficial to patients.
Banks cut interest rates for loans worth more than 1.12 quadrillion VND (49 billion USD) of nearly 322,190 borrowers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as of May 11, a State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) report showed.
Though the volume of issued credit cards and payments via credit cards have decreased sharply in Vietnam, VISA and MasterCard have been collecting different fees from a transaction.
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