Non-Vietnamese nationals living in Vietnam will likely be granted an electronic identification account to perform public administrative procedures.

The Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order (C06 – under the Public Security Ministry) has recently announced that the chip and QR code attached onto the new version of citizen ID card contains 

Major General Pham Cong Nguyen, Director of the Police Agency or Administrative Management of Social Order (C06), Ministry of Public Security explains why the delivery of the chip-based ID cards is behind schedule.

The personal data could be used by criminals to fraudulently appropriate property, forge documents to impersonate, and open a bank account.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, 

 Four cities in Viet Nam have begun registering birth certificates and issuing citizen identification numbers to infants, in which every infant receives a 12-digit number that is valid for life.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will start issuing new identity cards to all local citizens from today.

 The Dutch Sim card maker at the centre of NSA-GCHQ hacking claims has said it believes that the US and UK cyberspy agencies did indeed launch attacks on its computer systems.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday agreed that although the draft Law on Household Registration and draft Law on Citizen Identity Card were related, they were for different purposes and implemented differently.

Within the agenda of the National Assembly (NA)'s 7th session, the NA deputies yesterday commented on a report about the National Assembly supervisory programme for 2015.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly Standing Committee members yesterday, March 12, discussed the revised Law on Notary, in which many agreed that notary officers must be responsible for the content of translated documents.  

VietNamNet Bridge – A series of new legal documents came into effect in November, 2013, including new ID cards, conditions on overseas work permit, regulations on illegal marriage, sanctions for fishery violations

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson on July 18 criticised China’s decision to grant residence permits and ID cards to its citizens in the so-called Sansha city that covers Vietnam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos, describing it null and void.

After more than a week enjoying the lunar New Year, thousands of people in Soc Trang province went to the local police bureau to get identity cards before getting back to work in HCM City.

 VietNamNet – On December 24, the National Assembly Law Committee held an explanation session on promulgating detailed text and instructing the enforcement of laws and ordinances issued from January 1, 2009.