FLAT Legal Journal
Scenario: a factory finishes its structural works and only then starts on power — discovering that the slowest part is not the utility but its own substation, which…
Read article ↗Scenario: eight months after handover, an FDI factory’s concrete floor cracks and the roof drainage leaks. The investor calls the contractor back for warranty repairs — and learns…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI factory is nearing completion and its engineering team holds four different environmental documents — an approved environmental impact assessment, a wastewater discharge license, a hazardous-waste…
Read article ↗Scenario: an investor about to build a two-storey factory in an industrial park asks: “Are factory buildings under 7 storeys exempt from construction permits, like houses?” The short…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI factory has just been completed. The admin team mounts a large logo sign across the workshop facade and a billboard along the national highway in…
Read article ↗Scenario: an FDI electronics plant wants to set aside 800 m² of its site for a warehouse storing solvents and production chemicals. The industrial park authority accepts the…
Read article ↗The same US–Vietnamese group: in the US dismissing an employee can take an afternoon (at-will employment); in Viet Nam a procedurally wrong dismissal can force the company to…
Read article ↗The same engineering position costs multiples more in Germany than in Viet Nam — but few calculate where the multiples come from. The labour-cost equation comprises mandatory minimum…
Read article ↗An EU investor’s factory in Viet Nam: fire wipes out the production line, a storm collapses the warehouse, the EPC contractor runs six months late — who pays?…
Read article ↗Vietnamese shrimp, pangasius and coffee exported to the UK: the UKVFTA (in force 01/05/2021) opens the tariff door, but the real barrier is the UK’s own food-safety and…
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