The dispute surrounding the ST25 rice brand – a specialty of Soc Trang province, Vietnam has continued to raise awareness over the weaknesses in the competitiveness of the majority of Vietnamese enterprises nowadays. The dispute happened because the enterprise responsible for producing the rice doesn’t pay attention to the protection of their brand. They didn’t…
April 20, 2021, The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiated an anti-dumping investigation against cement products originated from Vietnam. – The plaintiff: Cemex Philippines Corp., Holcim Philippines Inc., and Republic Cement Builders and Building Materials Inc. – Investigated products: Cement classified under the AHTN (Asean harmonized tariff nomenclature) codes 2523.2990 and 2523.9000. – Content: The period of…
Recently, A Vietnam Labor Law Conference 2021 just took place in Ho Chi Minh City. The conference has attracted the attention of many renowned individuals such as HR directors, internal lawyers, and lawyers of a law consulting firm specializing in Labor Law. Following the topic of the event “Labor law in the industrial era 4.0”,…
Before officially establishing an employment relationship through an employment contract, the employer and the employee will usually agree on a trial job. But the question is that is the probationary agreement required to be made into a written contract? Is probation required a signed contract? Clause 1, Article 24 of the Labor Code 2019 regarding…
According to businesses, the current 2013 Land Law reveals many overlapping and inconsistent contents with the laws that make it difficult for them to develop real estate projects. The Government Office has just announced the conclusion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a recent conference on the performance of assigned tasks of the Ministry…
From the effective date of Circular No. 01/2021/TT-BKHDT (May 1, 2021), the forms in the enterprise registration application specified in the appendix issued together with Circular No. 01/2021/TT-BKHDT is hereby applied nationwide. According to Mr. Huynh Van Toan (HCMC), Decree No. 122/2020/ND-CP dated October 15, 2020, of the Government, stipulates the coordination of the procedures…
Enterprises are proposing that instead of requiring an electricity operating license to receive a tax refund, energy projects will be refunded VAT as soon as they have signed electricity sale contracts. The Energy Association has just sent a document calling for help to the Prime Minister about the fact that many businesses investing in the…
If enterprises do not follow the principle of late payment penalty, the enterprises will abuse the value-added tax refund (VAT) until being forced to re-pay. Recently, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reflected that enterprises exporting seafood products are entitled to VAT refund. However, after a while, because for some reason, the…
The seminar “Law and practice of merger and acquisition transaction in Vietnam” was organized by the Center for Commercial Arbitration of Vietnam Lawyers in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Commercial Arbitration Association and the International Women’s Leadership Network with the participation of lawyers, law researchers in Ho Chi Minh City and other Businessman…
Mark Getty – founder of Getty Images once said: “Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century”. If only in terms of literal terms, intellectual property can be understood in many ways, intellectual property can cover many fields. Regardless of the ownership of a series, a picture, or logo, symbols that make up your…