FLAT Legal Journal
The first question every FDI restaurant chain asks when opening its second Vietnamese outlet is whether the first restaurant’s food safety eligibility certificate can be shared. The answer…
Read article ↗Logistics is one of the few sectors where business conditions for foreign investors are specified sub-sector by sub-sector: the same ‘logistics company’ faces different foreign-equity ceilings across forwarding,…
Read article ↗Investors often ask about an ‘amended Tourism Law’ as if it were about to take effect. At the time of writing, the position must be stated plainly: Tourism…
Read article ↗Law 51/2024/QH15 amending the Health Insurance Law, effective 01/7/2025, together with guiding Decree 188/2025/ND-CP, is the biggest health-insurance change in years: wider compulsory coverage, eased cross-level treatment access…
Read article ↗Law 44/2024/QH15 amending Pharmacy Law 105/2016/QH13, effective 01/7/2025, is the largest framework change for the pharmaceutical sector in almost a decade. For FDI drug companies, three areas are…
Read article ↗The 2026-2030 period is Vietnam’s densest cycle of framework replacement in years: a new Investment Law takes effect on 01/3/2026, the amended Pharmacy Law and amended Health Insurance…
Read article ↗Moving from informal border trade to official-quota exports is no longer optional for Vietnamese farm exporters: major markets keep tightening quarantine, traceability and growing-area code requirements, while goods…
Read article ↗Socialising airport investment has been a consistent policy in Vietnam: the State retains management and funds core airside assets such as runways, while passenger terminals, cargo terminals and…
Read article ↗Investors in international schools in Vietnam face a significant framework change: the Ministry of Education and Training has published a draft decree on cooperation and investment with foreign…
Read article ↗‘Photos one way, the tour another’ is the classic Vietnamese tourism complaint — and it is advertising conduct the law sanctions directly, not merely a business-ethics issue. From…
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