Concerns abound over special zone’s autonomy: National Assembly

The latest revision of the draft law for special administrative and economic zones absorbed feedback and made changes to several items including planning and organisation of the special zone’s government, according to lawmakers. Most National Assembly deputies agreed the revision was a positive step during yesterday’s meeting to…

Vietnam commended on fight against corruption

Vietnam’s intensified crackdown on corruption has yielded applause twice from the international community in just the past month. The main hall of Daewoo Hotel in Hanoi today was packed with over a thousand government officials, representatives from international organisations, experts, and local and foreign journalists. They came just…

Corruption better controlled: report

The fight against corruption was a rare highlight of the Government’s efforts to improve public administration, as citizens in more than half of the country believed corruption was better controlled in 2017, a report found on Wednesday. According to the 2017 Việt Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration…

Cyber law balances security, information freedom

Dr Mai Liêm Trực, former deputy minister of Post and Communications, talks to the newspaper Nông thôn ngày nay (Countryside Today) about the need to finalise the draft Law on Cyber Security The draft Law on Cyber Security has been revised 14 times, but there are still outstanding…

Limitation in open budget index

Việt Nam is ranked under the global average in the open budget index, especially in terms of public participation. That’s according to the report of Open Budget Survey composed and published by International Budget Partnership (IBP) on Thursday. Việt Nam’s budget transparency (Open Budget Index – OBI) scored…

State audit to inspect BOT traffic projects

Several BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) traffic projects will be on 2018’s audit list, the State Audit Office of Việt Nam (SAV) announced yesterday. Examining a series of BOT traffic projects was among the State Auditor General Hồ Đức Phớc’s audit plan for next year that SAV issued recently. Specifically, the…

National Assembly Standing Committee discusses thrift practice and anti-waste

The National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee mulled over a Government report on thrift practice and combating wastefulness at work during its 23rd session on April 12. The report focused on the work outcomes in 2017 related to, among other things, passing new laws, the management of the State budget, the…

Regulations and Policy on Access to Information in Vietnam

Vietnam’s legal system to guarantee people’s access to information (ATI) and the responsibility to provide information of public authorities has only been started since 1998 with Government’s Decree No. 29 on exercise of democracy in communes, wards and townships. Since then, a number of laws issued by the…

Vietnam in Open Government Partnership Landscape

OGP has yet to be on the policy agenda of Vietnam. The knowledge of government agencies and local CSOs on OGP remains very limited. There are development partners who support Vietnam to build good governance grounded in transparency, accountability and people’s participation – all key elements of OGP…

Significance of OGP participation for Vietnam

Being a renowned international initiative of strengthening effective governance, OGP has practical significance to all of its members. All experts interviewed for the study “Prospect of Vietnam’s Participation in the Open Government Partnership Initiative (OGP)” have affirmed that the participation in OGP would bring Vietnam considerable benefits. The…