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Operating vehicles under the influence of alcohol will be officially banned from Wednesday as part of the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcoholic Beverages’ Harmful Effects.

A series of policies on administrative penalties for violations arising in the monetary and banking sector, sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of competition, driver training, driving tests and issuance of driving licenses for road motor vehicles shall come into effect since December 2019.

A series of new laws on anti-corruption, university education, public security, coast guard, amnesty, and competition shall come into effect since July, 2019.

As you may be aware, the draft amended Labor Code has been widely circulated to seek comments from relevant authorities and the business community. In this Alert, we would like to update you on the notable proposals in the latest draft amended Labor Code, which could have significant business and social impacts as follows:

The law regulates operational principles on architecture in accordance with development orientations, urban planning, rural planning, in response to socio-economic development demands, national defense, security, environmental protection, appropriate use of natural resources, climate change and natural disaster response, selective reception of world architecture elites, scientific and high-tech applications.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s key task is to evaluate the building and adjustment of policies to support the development of the digital economy, according to Deputy Minister Cao Quốc Hưng.

The Government has issued Decree 37/2019/ND-CP detailing implementation of some articles of the Law on Planning. The ruling also provides for the construction of a national information system and database on planning.

The city has 17 industrial and export processing zones, one high-tech park and 16 industrial clusters, with over 1,600 enterprises and nearly 380,000 labourers. Of the number, about 65 per cent of them are migrants.