Viet Nam needed to build a legal framework to promote the development of over-the-top (OTT) media services as the Government strives to build a digital economy and accelerate digital transformation, experts have said.

The Government on March 29 issued Circular 05/2019/TT-BKHDT ("Circular 05") regulating support for human resources development in favor of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

In the first four months of this year, the merger and acquisition scene has been active with the participation of both ­domestic and international ­investors.

The draft law on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is being composed by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), and will be submitted to the government in July. 

The draft law on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is being composed by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), and will be submitted to the government in July.  

A series of policies on false denunciations, new emission standards for second-hand vehicle imports, Labor Code on licensing outsourcing services shall take effect from May 2019.

The Prime Minister has released a directive to fight loan sharks who are targeting vulnerable people.

The State Bank of Viet Nam recently issued Circular No. 03/2019/TT-NHNN on amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular No. 32/2013/TT-NHNN guiding the implementation of regulations on restricting the use of foreign currencies across the Vietnamese territory.

New regulations on tontine interest rates, registration fee prices of houses and land, and internal auditing shall take force from April, 2019.

The amendments to the Law on Enterprise and Law on Investment must include stronger solutions to thoroughly and comprehensively reform State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and enhance their efficiency, according to the Viet Nam Association of Financial Investors (VAFI).

The Government will soon issue a decision to allow a pilot implementation of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the country before officially developing laws for the new form of business, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade recently debuted a new website available at http://cptpp.moit.gov.vn/ where citizen and enterprises can learn more about the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Viet Nam’s foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction is expected to make a leap, especially in quality, in 2019 as more foreign investors, including big names, in the world’s high-tech manufacturing and services industries are choosing the country as their destination.

The Vietnamese Government should outline policies to promote breakthrough technologies and bolster digital economic development amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Bank Country Director for Viet Nam, Osmane Dione said yesterday.

Viet Nam is in the early stages of developing renewable energy sources and needs to introduce more incentive policies to attract more investment, experts have said.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution could increase Viet Nam’s GDP by between US$28.5 billion and $62.1 billion – equivalent to a rise of 7 to 16 per cent – by 2030, Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Nguyen Dinh Cung said at a seminar in Ha Noi on Friday.

The new policies include conditions for establishment of foreign-invested vocational training institutions in Viet Nam.

Vietnam then (before 1994) and North Korea today are very different, but there’s one similarity: the relative absence of international business.

With peer-to-peer lending becoming increasingly popular in Viet Nam, experts said a legal framework is needed to regulate the activity to prevent loan-sharking.