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| The camera system is installed at road intersections in Can Tho city to record traffic violations__Photo: VNA |
Administrative violations in road activities subject to fines of up to VND 150 million
Under Decree 336/2025/ND-CP, effective from March 1, the maximum fine for administrative violations in road activities is VND 75 million for individuals and VND 150 million for organisations.
Specifically:
- Violations relating to the use and exploitation of land reserved for road infrastructure are subject to fines ranging from VND 500,000 to VND 20 million.
- Violations concerning the management, operation, exploitation and maintenance of technical infrastructure works used jointly with roads are subject to fines ranging from VND 6 million to VND 15 million.
- Violations relating to construction within the protection corridor of road infrastructure are subject to fines ranging from VND 1 million to VND 20 million.
- Violations concerning the management, exploitation, maintenance and protection of road infrastructure are subject to fines ranging from VND 100,000 to VND 5 million.
Managing real estate through electronic identification codes
Under Government Decree 357/2025/ND-CP on the development and management of the information system and database on housing and the real estate market, each real estate product will be assigned an electronic identification code.
Real estate products subject to such identification include residential houses and floor areas within construction works. In addition, electronic identification codes will also be granted to condominium management and operation entities, real estate brokerage practising certificates, and beneficiaries of housing support policies.
The electronic identification code for a residential real estate product comprises the following groups of information fields: the land parcel identification code; the project or construction work information code; the location identification code (if any); and a natural character string.
These codes will be automatically generated within the information system and database on housing and the real estate market. Provincial-level Departments of Construction are responsible for attaching the electronic identification code to residential real estate products in housing development projects within their respective localities at the time of issuing the notice confirming the eligibility for sale of houses to be formed in the future.
The Decree takes effect on March 1.
Charitable funds required to disclose annual income and expenditure before March 31
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| Children with hearing disability in a rehabilitation and education centre for children with disabilities in Quang Tri province__ Photo: VNA |
Also effective from March 1, Decree 03/2026/ND-CP requires social and charitable funds to publicly disclose contributions received, assets accepted and the results of their utilisation in the mass media before March 31 each year.
Funds operating in a particular sector are subject to the management of the competent state authority responsible for that sector and may provide sponsorship or support only within the scope of their chartered activities. An exception applies where they participate in relief efforts to address difficulties arising from natural disasters, epidemics, fires or other serious and emergency incidents.
Administrative fines of up to VND 30 million for using archival documents to defame or insult individuals
Under Decree 31/2026/ND-CP providing for administrative sanctions in the archival field, which takes effect from March 8, fines of between VND 20 million and VND 30 will be imposed on the following acts:
- Unauthorisedly accessing, copying or sharing archival documents or archival databases;
- Illegally providing, transferring or destroying archival documents, or trading in or misappropriating such documents;
- Falsifying the content of archival documents or impairing their integrity and master data;
- Causing damage to archival documents to the extent that restoration is impossible;
- Losing archival documents; or
- Using archival documents for fabrication, defamation or infringement of an individual’s dignity or honour.
Amendments to licensing procedures for establishing representative offices of foreign cooperation and research organisations in Vietnam
The Government has promulgated Decree 62/2026/ND-CP, which amends and supplements a number of articles of Decree 06/2005/ND-CP on the establishment and operation of representative offices of foreign cooperation and research organisations in Vietnam. The Decree takes effect on March 1.
Regarding the procedures for licensing the establishment of a representative office of a foreign cooperation and research organization in Vietnam, Decree 62 stipulates that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will forward the application dossier to the relevant Vietnamese line ministry, other concerned ministries and agencies, and the People’s Committee of the province or city where the representative office is proposed to be located.
Upon receipt of the dossier:
- The People’s Committee will provide its opinion on the foreign organisation’s operations within the locality;
- Relevant ministries and agencies will give their opinions on programmes or projects falling within their respective areas of supervision;
- The Vietnamese line ministry will comment on the proposal to establish the representative office; and
- The Ministry of Public Security will give its opinion on the person proposed to serve as head of the representative office in Vietnam.
Business household bank accounts must rear the registered name
From March 1, bank accounts used for the business activities of business households must bear exactly the name stated on the business household registration certificate.
Under Circular 25/2025/TT-NHNN of the State Bank of Vietnam, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 17/2024/TT-NHNN, the name of an individual payment account must correspond exactly to the full name stated on the customer’s identity documents; for organisational payment accounts, the account name must include the organisation’s name as stated in its establishment licence, establishment decision, enterprise registration certificate or other document evidencing its lawful establishment and operation.
Three cases in which mobile banking applications automatically suspend operation
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| A customer making payment at AEON supermarket in Hanoi__Photo: VNA |
Circular 77/2025/TT-NHNN of the State Bank of Vietnam, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 50/2024/TT-NHNN on security and safety in the provision of online services in the banking sector, takes effect on March 1.
To prevent malware attacks from external sources, the Circular requires mobile banking applications to automatically disconnect or immediately suspend operation if the device is detected to fall into one of the following cases:
- The device has been jailbroken (iOS), rooted (Android), or has had its secure boot mechanism unlocked (bootloader unlocking), typically to install unofficial applications or circumvent copyright protections.
- The device has been injected with malicious code for monitoring or recording user activities, or has been modified or repackaged.
- The device is connected to a debugger or runs the application in an emulated or virtual environment, including emulators or virtual machines.- (VLLF)
