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[22-05-2014] Recently, many companies invested by Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong businesses in Ha Tinh, Binh Duong, and Ho Chi Minh City were experienced big impacts from workers’ uncontrolled protests. To support the affected companies in dealing with potential challenge and impact from the tax authorities in the future, Deloitte would like to give you some suggestions. And they hope that this will be useful to you.

[12-05-2014] Part I of this Legal Newsletter introduces a legal article titled “State-owned enterprises in TPP negotiation: WTO – plus commitment?” written by Dr. Le Thi Anh Nguyet, issued in the Saigon Times on February 27th 2014. The article aims to establish the relationship between SOEs and state trading enterprises in the TPP Agreement, WTO and analyze some of the difficulties that SOEs of Vietnam have to be challenged.

[24-04-2014] The information in this booklet is based on current taxation regulations and practice including certain legislative proposals as at 4 March 2014. A circular guiding the implementation of the amended corporate income tax decree and a new foreign contractor tax circular are expected later in 2014. This booklet is intended as a general guide. Where specific transactions are being contemplated, definitive advice should be sought.

[11-04-2014] Part I of this Legal Newsletter introduces a legal article titled "When an enterprise is libelled on the Internet" written by Lawyers:  Lawyer Nguyen Thi Phuong Chung and Lawyer Trinh Thu Hao. In this article, P&P analyze and discuss on the problem that enterprises and their leaders are slandered by their own employees on social networks, sanction regulations, damage determining methods and solutions to this problem.

[02-04-2014]  A string of new policies on electric grid safety, industrial promotion funding, import of automobiles and motorcycles and management of overseas students in Viet Nam will take effect in April 2014.

As you are aware, the new Labour Code of Vietnam was effective from 1 May 2013 and from that point of time until now, many decrees from the Government and circulars from the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs have been issued to provided guidelines on the implementation of the new Labour Code.

[31-03-2014] In this issue, you will find reports on a number of important legal and economic developments in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam from January to March 2014. Across the legal, political and economic landscapes of the region, there have been significant changes to the rules on investment, import and export, and labor, providing both opportunities and challenges for businesses in the region.

[12-03-2014] Part I of this Legal Newsletter introduces a legal article titled "Do businesses need criminal records?" written by Mr. Tran Thanh Tung and Mr. Ngo Nhat Minh - Paralegal, issued in The Saigon Times on December 19th 2013. In this article, P&P analyze and discuss a number of issues related to the requirement that foreign individual investors must submit a copy of their criminal record when involve in capital contribution and share purchases of a Vietnamese owned company.