The Government has issued Decree No.85/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing several articles of Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce involving foreign traders.

The Government has recently requested the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) to direct localities to flexibly relax regulations and conditions for grant, extension and certification of work permits for foreign workers in Vietnam in response to the new situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Prime Minister has issued Decision 1158/QD-TTg on restructuring national-level science and technology program for the 2021-2025 period and towards 2030.

Advertising service providers inside and outside the country engaging in cross-border advertising activities in Viet Nam must abide by regulations on advertisement, cybersecurity, as well as management, provision and use of Internet services and online information, and must pay tax in line with tax-related laws, according to a new Government decree.

The Government has recently issued Decree 69, specifying cases where apartment buildings will have to be rebuilt or transformed into other types of construction works.

The Ministry of Information and Communications on July 23 issued a document on intensifying the handling of fake news and untrue information about COVID-19 on the Internet.

The nation expects to reduce the annual rate of child accidents and injuries to 500 per 100,000 children by 2030, according to a program recently approved by the Prime Minister.

By 2030, Vietnam will be ranked among top 30 countries in the world in terms of the business environment, according to the Government Resolution 76/NQ-CP, promulgating the general program on state administrative reform for the 2021-30 period.

By 2030, domestic trade will account for 15-15.5 percent of the national GDP, according to the strategy for domestic trade development through 2030, with a vision toward 2045.

In a move to further implementing the UKVFTA, the Government has issued Decree 53/2021/ND-CP outlining Vietnam’s preferential export tariff and special preferential import tariff schedules to implement the UKVFTA in the 2021-2022 period.