Institutional reform

In order to facillitate the implementation of the updated NDC, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is tasked to hold prime responsibility for coordinating with relevant ministries, agencies to develop the Support Programme to implement NDC for the period 2021-2030, and to update the national strategy on climate change for the period 2021-2025 which will include goals stated in the updated NDC and contents required in the Paris Agreement. … [Read more...] about Vietnam determined to reduce GHG emissions by 9 percent in 2030

People who had been provided with a visa to Japan earlier are allowed to enter Japan as of midnight of January 21 at the latest. However, they have to be tested negative for Covid-19 and the test certificate needs to be submitted to Japanese authorities no more than three days before their flight to Japan. Anyone who enters Japan will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine. People are not permitted to use public transport from airports to quarantine sites. People who violate Covid-19 prevention regulations will be strictly punished. The measures will be applied until further notice from the Japanese government. Japan was among six countries from June that offered looser visa policies. Dtinews/Tienphong … [Read more...] about Japan suspends visas for Vietnamese citizens

As the Chair of the General Assembly of WIPO, Vietnam pushed WIPO’s support many projects in Vietnam in this area, such as the project to assist Vietnam fulfilling WIPO's membership obligations, improving provision of statistics for compiling the national innovation report as well as building policies and measures to strengthen the nation's innovation work. In a quarter of a century associated with ASEAN, Vietnam has always been active, proactive in responsible participation and left many important marks. … [Read more...] about Human rights considerations: Dialogue and cooperation are the only effective way

Fourthly, study and build the Law on Personal information Protection, on the basis of inheriting some regulations on the protection of Personal information in the Law on Information Technology 2006, Law on Cyber Security 2015, Decree No. 52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce but with more comprehensively adjustment than the protection of Personal information (not only limited to the protection of Personal information in cyberspace), especially the more complete regulation of principles of protection of personal information (the principle ensuring that there are subjects with clear responsibility for the violations in the process of dealing with personal information; ensuring transparency and fairness in dealing with personal information...), provisions on the collection and handling of Personal information with regard to children, more clearly define the responsibilities of entities involved in the process of collecting, storing, processing, exploiting, transferring personal information, the … [Read more...] about Human rights viewed from illegal sales of personal information

On the principle of protecting human rights, the Party and State of Vietnam always define people as both the goal and the driving force of the cause of national construction; people are at the center of socio-economic policies; promoting and protecting human rights is an important factor for sustainable development, ensuring the success of the industrialization and modernization of the country. … [Read more...] about The government accepts economic damage to guarantee the right to health care for everyone