Coming into force from March 1, the Anti-Money Laundering Law is available on Official Gazette Nos 139-141 of 2022, with 66 articles arranged in four chapters, and contains several significant changes compared to its 2012 version.

The National Assembly Standing Committee offered opinions on the draft revised Law on Water Resources during their 21st meeting in Hanoi on March 15.

The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed some contentious issues on the revised draft Law on Bidding on March 15 as part of its ongoing 21^st session in Hanoi.

Under the 2020 Investment Law, investors are defined as organizations or individuals carrying out business investment activities, including domestic investors, foreign investors and foreign-invested economic organizations. Foreign investors are subsequently defined as foreign nationals or organizations established under foreign laws that carry out business investment activities in Vietnam; and domestic investors as Vietnamese nationals or economic organizations without any members or shareholders being foreign investors.

Vietnam is expected to soon have a complete legal framework to better guarantee civil rights and human rights of transgender people.

The Government has recently allowed the processing of personal data of people without their consent under Resolution 13/NQ-CP dated February 7, approving the dossier for formulation of the Decree on personal data protection.

The National Assembly Standing Committee wrapped up the 20th session on February 15.

From January 3 through March 15, the draft amended Land Law will be made public to gather opinions of the people from all walks of life, according to the National Assembly Standing Committee’s Resolution 671 issued in December 23, 2022.

Public and corporate satisfaction should be used to measure the efficiency of administrative reforms, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a year-end conference held by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Hanoi on December 29.

The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed two groups of issues during its 18th session, which opened on December 13.