MACAU-HCMC CHARTERED FLIGHTS SET TO START NEXT MONTH
[10-08-2015] Two local travel companies will join hands with their Macau partner to arrange three weekly chartered flights starting next month to transport tourists between Macau and HCM City. The flights, with 180 seats each, will be jointly conducted by Macau’s Sun Star Travel Agency, Viking Travel Company in HCMC and Indochina Service in Hanoi. The first flight is scheduled on September 22.
UPDATES ON VISA EXEMPTION
[05-08-2015] The Vietnamese Government has unilaterally decided that holders of passports from the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and France will be waived off Vietnamese visas from the 1st July, 2015 to 30th June, 2016. Earlier, the Southeast Asian country inked 80 visa exemption agreements.
DN LEGAL: LEGAL UPDATE ON GUIDELINES TO THE LICENSING AUTHORITIES
[07-08-2015] Did you know that the Ministry of Planning & Investment recently issued some guidelines to the licensing authorities in the cities and provinces regarding the implementation of the new 2014 Investment Law? The content of this guideline is a bit complicated and below is a 'simplified' explanation.
NEARLY $1.7B OF FDI POURS INTO REAL ESTATE MARKET
[03-08-2015] The country's property market attracted US$1.69 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) for 15 projects in the first seven months of 2015, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. This figure accounted for 19.3 per cent of the total FDI capital of $6.92 billion.
EMPLOYMENT DEMAND RISES AS ECONOMY RECOVERS
[30-07-2015] The demand for workers from Vietnamese enterprises was reported 34 percent higher in the first half of the year in comparison with the same period last year. The reports by the HCM City Labor Force Forecasting and Marketing Information Center showed an increase in employment demand thanks to economic recovery.
HOUSING MARKET HAS GREAT APPEAL FOR FOREIGNERS AFTER LAW CHANGES
[30-07-2015] The real estate market, especially the high-end segment, has seen a revival and is likely to develop strongly from here thanks to the amendments to the Housing Law that permits foreigners and overseas Vietnamese to buy housing since July 1st, experts have said.
ASEAN INTERNSHIP FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF HONG KONG SCHEME- INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
[04-08-2015] The ASEAN Internship for University Students of Hong Kong Scheme (the internship scheme), which is initiated by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to provide opportunities for Hong Kong university students to undertake internships in ASEAN with a view to enhancing the bilateral relations between Hong Kong and ASEAN. The internship scheme was officially launched by Mr John C Tsang, Financial Secretary of HKSAR on 31 July 2014 in Singapore.
FRASERS: LEGAL UPDATE - DECREE 60
[30-07-2015] On 26 June 2015, the Government of Vietnam officially issued Decree No. 60/2015/ND-CP (Decree 60), amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 58/2012/ND- CP of the Government, dated 20 July 2012 (Decree 58), with respect to detailed guidelines for the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Securities.
