Legal news

On 21st August, Vietnam Prime Minister has signed the Plan to fully legalize digital assets and cryptocurrencies. According to the Plan, the Ministry of Justice and the State Bank of Vietnam are in charge of reviewing the current legal status of digital assets and cryptocurrencies; considering the US, EU and...

Ministry of Public Security issued Circular No. 28/2016/TT-BCA on July 05, 2016 on implementation of regulation on issuance and management of APEC business travel cards. According to this Circular, APEC business travel cards may function as an entry visa into countries and territories as members of APEC business travel cards....

The Ministry of Transport issues Circular No. 54/2018/TT-BGTVT on the charge bracket for pilotage, wharf, dock and mooring buoy utilization, container handling and towage services at Vietnamese seaports. According to this Circular, the charge bracket for container handling and towage services Region I is: - Charge bracket for domestic container handling...

Compensation to persons as victims of occupational accidents and diseases is at least 30 months of salary for employees losing work capability from 81% and over, or becoming fatal due to occupational accidents and diseases and at least 1.5 times the salary for employees losing work capability from 5-10%...

Credit institutions coordinates with shareholders, groups of shareholder related to share ownership to set up remedial plans for owning excessive shares , to make sure that no later than December 31, 2015 the share ownership rate of shareholders, group of related shareholders in credit institutions shall comply with the...

On June 13, 2016, the Decree No. 52/2016/ND-CP issued by the Government providing for salary, remuneration and bonus payment to managers of single-member limited liability companies of which charter capital is wholly owned by the State. Accordingly, for economic corporation, the pay factors of full-time President of  the  Board of...

On December 30, 2016, the Ministry of Construction issued the Circular No. 30/2016/TT-BXD on guiding the engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPC contract). In accordance with the regulations in this Circular, an EPC contract applies solely to construction projects and contract packages of which execution time is required to be...

Question: I would like to know about surrogacy arrangement which is carrying of a pregnancy for intended parents. A couple (Non-Resident of Vietnam) who attempted IVF with no success and they have embryos stored in Thailand.We select a surrogate mother who is our relative and would like to go through...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade issued the Circular No.35/2014/TT-BCT dated October 15, 2014 prescribing the application of the automatic import licensing regime to a number of fertilizer products, including urea, whether or not in aqueous solution; mineral or chemical fertilizers containing the three fertilizing elements, namely nitrogen, phosphorus and...

Facing with many negative reactions from enterprises of construction and agriculture machines and equipments, on August 29, 2014, the Minister of Science and Technology signed the Decision No. 2279/QD-BKHCN invalidating Circular No.20/2014/TT-BKHCN on importation of used machinery, equipment and technological line.[...]