- 2010/03/10
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Private share offer rules tightened
Nguyen Dang Viet
Article 87 of the Law on Enterprises, passed in November 2005, states that the Government would issue guidelines for private offers of shares in joint stock companies. [+]
download file(.pdf, 95.2kB)- 2010/01/15
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Vietnam New Regulations on BOT, BTO and BT Contracts
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Newly-promulgated Government's Decree 108/2009/ND-CP on investment in form of BOT (Built-Operation-Transfer), BTO (Built-Transfer-Operation) and BT (Built-Transfer) contracts ("Contract") will apply to all investment activities in Vietnam from 15 January 2010. The main provisions of the new regulation, which replaces the existing Government Decree 78/2007/ND-CP and provides transitional provisions to all signed contracts and projects with investors selected before 15 January 2010, are as follows:
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- 2009/07/21
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Report on IP in Indochina
Nguyen Anh Tuan
VIETNAM
New Adoption of Amended Intellectual Property Law
On 19 June 2009, Vietnam Parliament adopted the Law No. 36/2009/QH12 on amendment of some provisions of the existing 2005 Intellectual Property Law (the "Amended IP Law"), which shall become effective as of 1 January 2010.
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- 2008/05/31
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Vietnam IP Summary – an update 2008
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Intellectual Property Legislation
Vietnam became a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since January 2007 with considerable commitments not only on development of its legal system for the protection of intellectual property rights but also on opening of its markets to foreign investors.
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