[Korea] The 6th FDI Moot Asia-Pacific Regional Rounds

1st International ADR Conference at the Dusit Thani

In the conference, Mr. Phan Trong Dat (VIAC Vice General Secretary) presented about the enforcement of Mediated Settlement Agreement in Vietnam. Dat supposed that the enforceability of mediated settlement agreements is maybe the most important factor contributing to the success of mediation.

[Hanoi] ASEAN - China and Hong Kong Free Trade Area Conference: How to Benefit Enterprises?

Vietnam launches mediation centre for trade-related issues

According to Mr. Tran Huu Huynh, President of the VIAC, Vietnam is considered a country with high and stable economic growth in the region and in the world. The Vietnamese Government has made a number of strong commitments and actions to reform in a more facilitative fashion, aiming to build a favourable business climate for investors, including the finalisation of a legal framework for the methods of settling trade disputes.

[Australia] CIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration 2018

The Chartered Insitute of Arbitrators of Austratlia, East Asia, and Singapore is conducting the Asia Pacific Diploma Course in International Arbitration in Perth, Ausrtralia from 28 July 2018 to 5 August 2018. Following the success in Hong Kong 2017 and Singapore in 2016, this pre-eminent tertiary course offers a prestigious globally recognised qualification and is aimed at meeting the increasing demands for accredited arbitrators and arbitration practitioners to resolve cross-boder disputes in the Asia Pacific.

Pros of sandbox regulation for fintech

The activities of P2P lending and blockchain are currently not governed by any regulations in the Vietnamese legal system. In practice, fintech companies operating P2P lending or blockchain platforms are only obliged to obtain an enterprise registration certificate. 

Vietnam: Infrastructure Criteria For Sustainable Infrastructure Development And Rapid Growth – How The CPTPP And The EUVN Free Trade Agreement And Investment Protection Agreement Can Contribute

Most infrastructure investment has been through PPP agreements. PPP is the cornerstone for infrastructure development and has been utilized in the past in Vietnam with varying degrees of success. Those agreements were often legally cumbersome and were put together largely on faith that both the government and investor would live up to their end of the agreement. 

Many FDI firms choose commercial arbitration in resolving disputes

Mr. Phan Trong Dat, Deputy Secretary General of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) said at a recent seminar that the rate of disputes in Vietnam has increased in the last three years with over a half of commercial arbitration cases at VIAC being resolved in foreign languages (mainly English). ​

EU-Vietnam pact to deliver trade and investment bonanzas

The EVFTA was split into two separate agreements in June 2018, one on trade and one on investment. The deals, signed in Hanoi last Sunday after nine years of negotiations, are the first comprehensive and ambitious trade and investment agreement that the EU has ever concluded with a developing country. It is the second agreement in the ASEAN region after Singapore.