Legislators questioned ministers about labor, invalids, and social affairs and ethnic minority issues on June 6 - the 13th working day of the ongoing 5th session of the 15th National Assembly.

The 15th National Assembly will continue its fifth plenum with a question-and-answer session on June 6, which will be broadcast live on the Vietnam Television, radio The Voice of Vietnam and the National Assembly TV.

The State Bank of Vietnam has released a draft circular amending Circular 40 of 2011, specifying conditions for enterprises to acquire or redeem capital contributions at joint-venture banks if fully meeting the law-prescribed conditions.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) continued its ongoing fifth session with plenums presided over by Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on June 1.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed the Government build a plan for salary reforms, in which the lowest wage in the public sector will be increased to the regional minimum wage of employees at enterprises.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is gathering public comments on a draft amended Law on Social Insurance which is scheduled to replace its 2014 version from 2025.

Economic cooperation should continue to be the focus of bilateral ties between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea, National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai said at his talks with Deputy Assembly Speaker of the RoK Chung Woo-taik in Seoul on March 20.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed to add a group to the list of people paying compulsory social insurance.The group includes individual business households, business managers, unpaid managers of cooperatives and part-time employees.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has recently unveiled a draft revised Law on Citizen Identification, which is scheduled to replace the 2014 Law on Citizen Identification, adding regulations on management and issuance of citizen’s identity cards (ID cards), inclusion of more information in ID cards, and development of electronic identification (e-ID).