Soon after the National Assembly passed the Law on Foreign Investment in Vietnam in 1987, the country started witnessing Foreign Direct Investment inflows which have made considerable contributions to the national economy. To mark the 30th year of Vietnam’s FDI attraction, Vietnam News Agency talked to Sebastian Eckardt, lead economist at the World Bank Vietnam.

The fourth Industrial Revolution increases the demand for skilled workers, resulting in a shortage in the labor market. As the national education system is unable to satisfy the local demand, many countries around the world have adopted policies to attract foreign workers to offset the deficiency. This article analyzes Vietnam’s policies on attraction of foreign workers and proposes policy solutions to lure foreign scientists and technologists to work in the country.

Throughout 70 years of its history, the National Assembly has passed five constitutions, each of which has marked the road of building and growth of the Vietnamese revolutionary state, institutionalizing the line of the Communist Party of Vietnam in each period of national development, serving as the foundation for completing the legal system and building a law-ruled socialist state of Vietnam of the people, by the people and for the people.

Business Cooperation Contract, also known as “BCC”, is considered one of the direct investment forms that have been first introduced in the Law on Foreign Investment of Vietnam in 1988 and respectively regulated in numerous amendments to this law until the Law on Investment was enacted in 2005.

Through over 60 years of his revolutionary activities in different fields and different leading positions, Le Quang Dao made tireless efforts for national independence and freedom as well as for the communist ideal.

(Excerpts of a writing under this title by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Phu Trong, Political Bureau Member and National Assembly Chairman, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the general election to elect deputies to the first National Assembly of Vietnam)

A draft decree on cooperation and investment with foreign countries in the educational sector has been newly unveiled for public opinion.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established on January 1, 1995, after the end of the Uruguay Round negotiations with a view to developing a multilateral trading system governing trade in goods and services, trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and settlement of disputes among members

The second draft of a decree guiding the establishment, organization, management, operation, reorganization and dissolution of enterprises has been recently unveiled by the Ministry of Planning and Investment for comment.

Recently, the Government issued the eagerly anticipated Decree No. 101/2006/ND-CP on re-registration and conversion of foreign-invested enterprises and business co-operation contracts pursuant to the Law on Enterprises and the Law on Investment (“Decree No. 101”).