I've recently taken on some responsibilities that consumed much of my time this last week, so rather than write a brand new blog post from whole cloth I'm going to cover a couple of our publications that hit the presses in the last couple of weeks. I'll be back next week. Incorporating LLCs in Vietnam [...]
The following article is vital to understanding the future of Covid-19 vaccines in Vietnam and was published in the Vietnam Investment Review on 17 June 2021. By Nguyen Thi Hong Anh and Ly Nghia Dzung Indochine Counsel Amid growing coronavirus cases from the latest outbreak in the country, the Vietnamese government is taking measures to [...]
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate While I have written largely about Fintech issues in this blog, the scope of my responsibilities extends to other areas involving technology and media. This week, therefore, I am going to write on a subject that has caused a bit of a stir in Vietnam regarding the regulations that just [...]
In several of my posts lately, I've mentioned the possibility of certain services coming under the laws governing the deployment and operation of social networks in Vietnam (see P2P Lending in Vietnam and B2B Lending in Vietnam). But in mentioning it, I have yet to go into any details about what those laws contain and [...]
By Le Nguyen Huy Thuy and Le Thi Khanh Hoan Key employment trends in major Asian markets The COVID-19 pandemic deleteriously affected the labor market and is predicted to continue negatively influencing employment trends across Asia in the upcoming year. At the beginning of 2020, it was predicted that the unemployment rate in Asia-Pacific would [...]
Last Friday Indochine Counsel issued a Special Alert concerning the recent issuance of a decree guiding enforcement efforts to limit "fake news" in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. With some slight formatting differences, the below reproduces that alert for your reference. On 3 February 2020, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP on [...]
Indochine Counsel has recently updated its chapter in the Kluwar Online Enforcement of Foreign Judgments for 2020. You can access last year’s edition here: http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?pubcode=efj As I had the opportunity to work on this, I thought I would list a few highlights of the procedure using that source as a reference. Below is a discussion [...]
Ten years ago tomorrow I started my first day working for Indochine Counsel. I was a year out of law school, having spent six months finishing the qualifying requirements for the California Bar Association and then six months trying to find work in the middle of the Great Recession. The future seemed bleak but then [...]
Indochine Counsel is proud to announce its contribution to A Guide to Practical E-Discovery in Asia, a multi-jurisdictional guide to E-discovery in the Asian region. Authored by Bryan Tan, Michael Lew, and Benjamin Ang the Guide covers nine jurisdictions in the region from Korea and Japan to Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia. The Vietnam chapter is [...]
Indochine Counsel is proud to announce the publication of A Practical Guide to E-Discovery in Asia, published by Lexis-Nexis. Continuing on the theme of important and cutting edge issues facing legal personnel, corporations, and investors in the region, Dang The Duc (Managing Partner) and Le Hong Bao Chuong (Associate) contributed the Vietnam chapter to the [...]