Legal Updates

Taking effect on November 15, 2015, the Decree No. 82/2015/ND-CP dated September 24, 2015 of the Government prescribing visa exemption for overseas Vietnamese and foreigners who are spouses or children of overseas Vietnamese or Vietnamese citizens, having a passport or an international travel document valid for at least 1...

This circular provides guidelines for determination of the unit labor cost in the management of the construction cost. The unit labor cost is calculated according to the following formula: GNC= LNCx HCBx 1/t Where: GNC: The unit labor cost paid to an employee who directly produces their output in a working day. LNC : The...

This is the important content prescribed at the Decree No. 47/2017/ND-CP dated April 04, 2017 of the Government prescribing the statutory pay rate for public officials, public employees and armed forces’ personnel. In particular, from July 01, 2017, public officials working in authorities at central echelon to district level ;...

On August 10, 2016, the Ministry of Health issued the Circular No. 31/2016/TT-BYT dated August 10, 2016 of the Ministry of Health guiding the Bidding Documents for procurement of herbal ingredients and traditional ingredients at heath facilities, including Bidding Documents for procurement of herbal ingredients applicable to open tender...

On November 16, 2018, the Government issues the Decree No. 157/2018/ND-CP providing for region-based minimum wages applied to employees working under labor contracts. Accordingly, from January 01, 2019, the region-based minimum wages are specified as follows: - VND 4,180,000/month, for enterprises operating in localities of region I; - VND 3,710,000/month, for enterprises...

Instead of having the Supreme People’s Court; Courts of provinces and centrally run cities; Courts of rural districts, urban districts, towns, provincial cities and the equivalent and Military courts as current regulations, from June, 2015, the people’s courts system add more Superior people’s courts. This is the new content...

From July 01, 2016, to supplement the hydro-meteorological forecast and warning to the conditional business investment sectors and trades is the important content prescribed at the Law No. 90/2015/QH13 on Hydro-meteorology, passed by the National Assembly on November 23, 2015. Also in accordance with this Law, hydro-meteorological forecast and warning...

On July 07, 2014, the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular No. 94/2014/TT-BTC prescribing customs procedures, inspection and supervision of a number of types of goods temporarily imported for re-export, transferred from border gate to border gate and consigned to bonded warehouses, and handling of cases of refusal to receive goods.[...]

According to Circular No. 105/2016/TT-BTC dated June 29, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance guiding offshore indirect investment activities of securities businesses, funds investing in securities, securities investment companies, insurance businesses, only securities businesses licensed to undertake securities dealing are allowed to invest or undertake offshore indirect investment with...

Question: We are a couple living in France and we wonder about surrogacy in Vietnam. I understand that 3 hospitals do this, I wonder about the price and how we can start applying? Answer: According to your enquiry about surrogacy in Vietnam, we consider that you should contact to medical examination and...