Legal Updates

On January 16, 2017, the Government issued Decision No. 03/2017/ND-CP on casino business, pilot permit for Vietnamese citizens to play in casinos included entertainment complexes at places satisfying requirements and approved by the competent authorities. The duration of pilot permission shall be 03 years from the day on which the...

This new content is formally regulated in the Insurance Law No. 58/2014/QH13 passed by the National Assembly on November 20, 2014. Accordingly, from 2016, male employees currently paying social insurance premiums whose wives give birth to children are entitled to a maternity leave of 5 working days; 7 working...

In accordance with the Circular No. 85/2015/TT-BTC dated June 03, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance providing for rates, collection, payment, management and use of charges and fees in chemical business any organization/individual applying for a license or a certificate relating to chemical business; any organization/individual applying for approval...

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...

The Circular No. 58/2015/TT-BLDTBXH issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs on December 29, 2015 guiding the adjustment rate of salaries and monthly incomes for which the social insurance premiums have been paid. In accordance with this Circular, the monthly salaries for which social insurance premiums...

On December 05, 2014, the Ministry of Health issued the Circular No. 46/2014/TT-BYT guiding the health quarantine process, of which it stipulates health quarantine process for persons on entry or exit or in transit at road and railway border gates, at international airports and at waterway border gates. Under this...

In accordance with the Circular No. 203/2014/TT-BTC dated December 22, 2014 of the Ministry of Finance guiding the handling of backlogged goods within areas of customs operation. handling backlogged goods not For goods to be destroyed or For assets to be transferred to specialized management agencies for management and...

This is one of the important contents prescribed at the Law No. 84/2015/QH13 on occupational safety and health passed by the National Assembly on June 25, 2015 and takes effect on July 01, 2016. In particular, the Law prescribed that the employers shall be responsible for assigning with new works...

On December 27, 2013, the Ministry of Finance promulgated Circular No. 209/2013/TT-BTC on guiding the financial regulations applicable to Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) for credit institutions, which shall comply with legislations applicable to the one-member limited liability companies of which 100% of charter capital is owned by State, the Government’s Decree No. 53/2013/ND-CP dated May 18, 2013 and related legal documents[...]

Procurement bidding dossiers not allowed to list the brand name, specific origin of goods which can cause unfair competition is the important content prescribed at the Circular No. 05/2015/TT-BKHDT dated June 16, 2015 of the Ministry of Planning and Investment detailing the making of goods procurement bidding dossiers. On taxes,...