FLAT Legal Journal
A battery-supply-chain investor compares Indonesia (world’s largest nickel reserves) with Vietnam. Indonesia has an industrial-land driver no regional peer matches: the downstream nickel boom — smelting and nickel-processing…
Read article ↗An EV-components maker compares Thailand and Vietnam. Thailand holds a card Vietnam lacks: the EEC (Eastern Economic Corridor) — a mega infrastructure-and-industry program across three eastern provinces, making…
Read article ↗A logistics firm needs warehousing near ports: Singapore is the premier transshipment hub; Vietnam far cheaper. But Singapore holds a paradox: industrial land is so scarce that JTC…
Read article ↗An electronics-components maker wants Korean supply-chain proximity but balks at land prices around Seoul. The reality: the Seoul capital region (Gyeonggi, Incheon) is saturated — high prices, virtually…
Read article ↗A semiconductor-equipment maker compares industrial land banks in Japan and Vietnam. In Vietnam, new parks keep rising in satellite provinces; in Japan the story reverses: industrial land grows…
Read article ↗A tech firm weighs Hong Kong against Vietnam for a pilot production site. Environmentally, Hong Kong surprises: the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO) applies only to “designated projects”…
Read article ↗A semiconductor supplier wants into Taiwan’s science parks — where environmental infrastructure is built for chips — while weighing Vietnam’s high-tech parks. Taiwan’s distinctive feature: two-phase environmental impact…
Read article ↗A garment maker with a Vietnamese plant (familiar GPMT process) explores the Philippines — and meets a new term: ECC (Environmental Compliance Certificate) — issued by DENR-EMB, the…
Read article ↗An electronics-components maker compares Malaysia (Penang) with Vietnam. Environmentally, Malaysia differs subtly: not every project needs an EIA — only “prescribed activities” under the Environmental Quality Act 1974…
Read article ↗A pharmaceutical maker used to Vietnam’s “one permit” (GPMT) enters India — and finds two separate permits: CTE (Consent to Establish) before groundbreaking, and CTO (Consent to Operate)…
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