On a hot sunny day recently, ethnic Hloi and Dor, and Jrai people visited a commune’s head office to follow procedures to get ID cards.

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 Departments of Public Security in 63 provinces and cities had collected dossiers of making chip-based ID cards of 33.9 million Vietnamese citizens as of April 27, equal to 67.8 percent of the goal of 50 million cards to be issued before July 1.

Colonel Nguyen Thi Thu Que, deputy director of the Legal Department of Administrative and Judicial Reform, the Ministry of Public Security, talks about the law on residence, which was recently discussed at the NA meeting this month.