Procedure to Change Birth Certificate in Vietnam

 How to Change Name on Birth Certificate in Vietnam?Changing family name, middle name, first name are considered changing civil status. Due to different reasons that an individual needs to change his/her name or his/her children’s name on the birth certificate. Such changes are civil status changes governed under the Law on Civil status.However, not every case of civil status change registration is accepted by the competent authority.Under the provisions Law on Civil Status, individuals can change of family name, middle name and first...

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Multimodal Transport Business Regulations in Vietnam

     On October 16th, 2018, Vietnam Government issued Decree No. 144/2018/ND-CP amending, supplementing the decrees on multimodal transport. Under the law of Vietnam, multimodal transport (“MT”) is the transportation of goods performed with at least two different modes of transport under the multimodal transport contract from an original place to a place designated for delivery, the carrier is liable for the entire carriage. MT business includes: International multimodal transport (“IMT”) and Domestic multimodal transport (“DMT”).The...

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Benefits of Representative Offices in Vietnam

     Following the trend of international economic integration, foreigners have been attracted by the benefits of doing business in Vietnam through setting up representative offices, setting up company, acquiring shares in Vietnam enterprise through M&A activity.At the initial stage, foreign entity would try to research market, undertake due diligence on its clients, buyers, clients, or other business partners therefore many will be interested in establishing a representative office in Vietnam.The foundation of representative...

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The Regulation on Science and Technology Enterprises in Vietnam

 The science and technology enterprises (S&T Enterprises) means an enterprise implementing production and business science and technology service to make a goods or product from results of science research and technology development. The S&T Enterprise’s operation is based on the successful application and exploitation of research process in itself or the results of scientific and technological research from the scientists, organizations or research results transferred from abroad that they have the lawful ownership use rights. The...

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Conditions for Establishing Representative Office in Vietnam

     Decree No. 07/2016 / ND-CP regulating the Commercial Law regarding representative offices and branches of foreign traders in Vietnam that have recently been issued by the Government.Accordingly, foreign traders can establish their representative offices and branches in Vietnam under Vietnam’s commitments in international treaties to which Vietnam is a member. A foreign trader cannot establish more than one representative office or branch with the same name within a province or city under central authority.Foreign traders are...

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Construction Operation License Instead of Contractor’s Permits for Foreign Contractor in Vietnam

 The foreign contractors are only permitted to carry out construction activities in Vietnam so long as being granted construction operation license by Ministry of Construction as per the Construction Law.EPC Contractors have increasingly been interested to learn the requirements of licenses and permits to operate in Vietnam. It is advised that the construction law firms in Vietnam with lawyers specializing in construction area to assist the foreign contractors to understand the legal frameworks, and requirements of foreign contractors...

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Legal Regulations in Purchasing Real Estate in for Foreigners in Vietnam

     Vietnam has become a better place for foreigners to visiting and staying. Many chose Vietnam as home and they come to Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi, Da Nang, Phu Quoc, Nha Trang… to buy real estates for living. Many foreigners consider seeking understanding and with the advisory of their real estate lawyers in Vietnam to purchase the property under their name for best interest protection. There are a number of foreigners seek to cooperate with local Vietnamese under investment agreement to invest in properties....

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Draft and Review Contracts - A Lawyer's View

 In Vietnam, certain type of contract has to follow forms requested by laws as such client is recommended to seek help from professional contract lawyers in Vietnam to help draft or review.Contract is an agreement enforced by law. In Vietnam, contract is a civil transaction which parties enter into voluntarily, each of whom intends to create, change, or terminate one or more rights or obligations between them according to Vietnam Civil Code. Contract plays an important roles in business transaction. Written contract provide individuals...

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Importants Matters to Consider in M&A Contract

   Before carrying out merger or acquisition (M&A), enterprises need to research carefully regulations of law to protect their rights and interests. Regulations on each aspect of M&A activities are referred to in various legal documents such as Law on Enterprises, Commercial Law, Competition law, Law on Investment, Civil Code … When carrying out M&A, enterprises should also pay attention to some basic terms in the contract. The M&A lawyers should be referred to for effective process and minimizing risks of the transaction.Definition,...

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Guidance on Unilateral Divorce Procedure

  Divorce is the termination of husband and wife relationship according to the court’s legally effective judgment or decision. Divorce procedures are prescribed in the Civil Procedure Code, Law on Marriage and Family, Law on Mediation at grassroots… There are two forms of divorce in Vietnam: divorce at the request of one party (unilateral divorce) and divorce by mutual consent.For divorce at the request of one party, the Court shall handle divorce at the request of spouse if it has grounds to believe that a spouse commits domestic violence...

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What Conditions to File Divorce Petition?

  Divorce means termination of the husband and wife relation under a court’s legally effective judgment or decision.What is the condition of divorce?Firstly, we need to know about subjects being entitled to request divorce settlement. That is husband or wife or both having the right to request divorce settlement from a Court; a parent or other relatives has the right to request divorce settlement from a Court when the spouse is unable to perceive and control his/her acts due to a mental disease or another disease and is concurrently a...

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How Law Regulates Employing People with Disabilities in Vietnam?

     Disabled people are those who have one or more body parts or functional impairments which are manifested in the form of disability, which makes it difficult for labor, living and learning. The State sponsors the right to labor and creates jobs for disabled workers, has policies to encourage and give incentives to employers to create jobs and to accept workers with disabilities to work in Vietnam.The disabled people are inherently disadvantaged compared to other ordinary people, so to compensate for the unfortunate...

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Temporarily Stop Granting Work Permits to Foreigners Originating from Infected Area Because of Covid-19

     An outbreak of acute respiratory infections caused by a new strain of Corona virus (nCoV) was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. Up to now, the disease has spread to many cities in China and more than 20 countries in the world including Vietnam. Facing new complicated movements of the acute respiratory disease epidemic caused by a new strain of Corona virus (Covid-19), on February 2nd, 2020, the Vietnam Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs issued Official Dispatch No. 01/CD-LDTBXH...

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Restructure the Debt Payment due to Covid-19

 On March 13, 2020, the State Bank issued Circular No. 01/2020/TT-NHNN providing guidance for the credit institutions, foreign bank branches to restructure the debt payment, exemption and reduction periods, charge, keep the debt group in support of customers affected by Covid-19 epidemic, which is an important legal grounds to support the economy.Accordingly, the debt group restructuring is carried out as follows:Debts which are restructured repayment term are the principal amount and/or interest (including the debt balance of debts within...

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Complete 1st Stage of the Information Technology Zone in Danang

     On January 6th 2020, the Prime Minister issued Decision no.27/QD-TTg on establishing the information technology zone in Danang – Stage 1, effective from January 6th 2020. Specifically, the Danang information technology (IT) zone – Stage 1 has an area of 131 hectares, located in Hoa Lien commune, Hoa Vang district, Danang city.The Ministry of Information and Communications shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the ministries, branches, Danang People’s Committee and concerned units in guiding the implementation...

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Highlights in the Law on Entry, Exit, Transit, and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam 2020

    Foreigners investing in Vietnam need to travel to Vietnam on investment purpose with the right visa supporting their purpose to comply with the Law on Entry, Exit, Transit, and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam.On November 25, 2019, the XIV National Assembly officially passed the Law on Entry, exit, transit, and residence of foreigners in Vietnam amended in 2019. This amendment provides many new highlights about the immigration of foreigners.What are visas suitable for the investors?Investor visa is divided into 04 categories:...

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Danang’s Target in 2020 is “The Year of Promoting Investment Attraction”

     On December 04th, 2019 Da Nang city held the conference on the result of the socio-economic development in 2019 and the target of the city in 2020. The conference affirmed the situation of implementing the city’s political duties, ensuring some criteria for socio-economic development of the city. In 2019, the city has achieved some outstanding results such as: budget revenue exceeded the assigned estimate (estimated at VND 28.170 billion, reached 102,9% of the estimate, up 3,5%; attracted more than 3.696 billion dong of domestic...

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