The Prime Minister has recently approved a scheme to intensify the public communication about policies that are likely to exert great impacts on the society in the law-building process in the 2022-27 period.

Vietnam will continue bringing into play its role and making more active and constructive contributions to the common work of the United Nations in all the three pillars – security-politics, development and human rights, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has delivered a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. during his ongoing working trip to US.

Quoc Trieu Hinh Luat (The National Criminal Code) of the Le dynasty (1428-1527) was the culmination of legislative work in feudal Vietnam. With 722 articles arranged in 13 chapters, it dealt with almost all basic social relations then, from criminal, marriage-family, inheritance, contractual, procedural, and land to administrative issues.

Over the past time, Vietnam’s legal system on intellectual property (IP) has been built and regularly revised, forming a fundamental legal foundation to regulate issues related to intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection and enforcement. Today, in the face of the requirements of an increasingly intensive, extensive and comprehensive international integration process, it needs further improvements to ensure effective implementation of international commitments and promote the application of scientific and technological research outcomes to production and business, contributing to the national socio-economic development.

Since early 2020, the complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the nation’s economy as well as many aspects of life and society. To address this, from April 2020 to July 2021, the Government rolled out several fiscal and monetary policies to help stabilize the national economy and ensure social security for the people.

It is not uncommon to see a branch participating in daily business activities independently. However, although the Civil Code[1] and the Law on Enterprises[2] contain regulations supporting such activities by a branch, inconsistency in terms of the general principles under the law gives rise to a basic question of how to logically and accurately identify the legal capacity of a branch in civil transactions.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Prof. Carl Thayer, University of New South Wales, Australia, in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency, gave some opinions about the significance of the Convention and the way forward.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry has suggested adding regulations related to digital transformation to the draft law on amending and supplementing a number of articles in the Law on Intellectual Property.

At present, the 2015 Penal Code (revised in 2017) (the Code), as the only source of Vietnam’s penal law, clearly expresses the State’s policies to protect women and translates into domestic laws international standards on the protection of women.