Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to issue a list of fields and localities which should receive preferential investment.

Enterprises and individuals who provide digital content on the internet but violate copyright regulations will be strictly penalised as of August 6, according to a new joint circular issued [ … ]

The personal tax law amendment that has recently been approved by the government seems at first to be good news for tax payers, but their joy would immediately fade away when they notice the [ … ]

Strict new conditions for rice exporters that take effect on October 1 are set to result in 50 enterprises losing export licences, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Import an [ … ]

Vietnamese and foreign individuals may be banned from taking gold bullion out of the country when they leave. The ban may also extend to raw gold, such as nuggets and gold dust.

Listed companies must comply with new information disclosure regulations under Circular 52 from June 1, following which the required time for publishing financial reports will be shortened a [ … ]

 Individuals, along with co-operatives and other economic institutions which are not enterprises, would no longer be allowed to borrow from foreign sources under the provisions of a dra [ … ]

The Ministry of Transport has just issued a new circular on license issuance for foreign shipping companies running on local routes in a bid to keep them from illegally dominating the market [ … ]

 The Ha Noi People's Committee has issued Decision 05/2012/QD‑UBND outlining a new housing price schedule as a basis for calculating registration fees and personal income tax for housin [ … ]

The Ministry of Finance is drafting a new law on personal income tax collection, in which it recommends that the tax threshold be lifted to VND6 million (US$288) a month from the current VND [ … ]