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Law on Anti-bribery & Anti-corruption
- 28 January 2022
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- by Hannah Huynh
Bribery What is bribery? Bribery usually refers to a situation where a person or organization gives benefits to a person holding State power to influence that person (e.g. making that person abuse the State power to bring benefits for the bribe giver). Under the law, both the act of giving bribe and receiving bribe are prohibited. Bribery, sometimes, can be very straightforward, e.g. Company A gives money to State officer B so that officer B can...
Fraudulent Appropriation of Property
- 27 January 2022
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- by Stephen Le
The remarkable development of information technology has significantly brought material and spiritual benefits for people. On the other hand, however, it becomes a means abused to appropriate property in a more and more complex and subtle way. What is fraudulent appropriation of property? Fraudulent appropriation of property means using deception to appropriate another person’s property. The typical feature of this crime is deception/fraud made by offenders. Elements constituting a crime of fraudulent appropriation of property Fraudulent...
Defamation and Bad-Mouthing: A Practical Guide to the Laws of Vietnam
- 29 November 2021
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- by Stephen Le
Both in modern world and in days past, people have highly valued their honor and dignity. In fact, social standing has always been considered one of the foremost factors in determining whether a person is successful in society. As such, it is not surprising that some individuals, who want to advance their goals, have inevitably used various means to insult the honor and dignity of others to benefit themselves. To protect the honor and dignity of...
Cybersecurity Law and the Practice of Preventing Cyber Fraud in Vietnam
- 17 November 2021
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- by Stephen Le
Concurrently with the rest of the World, online transactions over the internet have become commonplace in Vietnam and continue to expand its reach to all aspects of business. The banking and retail sectors are just two of the major industries that currently rely, at least in part, on remote transactions. This evolution also has a dark side with the development of cybercrime where a victim is fraudulently induced to provide personal or private information that the...
Vietnam Copyright Violation & Remove Negative Content from the Internet
- 20 September 2021
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- by Stephen Le
Cross-border Copyright Protection Vietnam is in the age of digitalization. Social media is strongly growing in the country. However, the media and information regulations’ enforcement has yet been active enough for such growth. This leads to an uncontrollable internet environment in which copyright infringement, bad-mouthing information, or defamation become popular and used as unethical tactics to attract an audience and earn credit for the authors, even to damage the reputation of innocent people. The intellectual property...
Evidence indicating Asanzo’s four violations of Vietnamese Law
- 15 November 2019
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- by Public Media
Electronics company Asanzo is alleged to have committed violations related to the deception of consumers, origin of exported goods, counterfeiting of trademarks and evading taxes. On October 28, the General Director of Vietnam Customs, Mr. Nguyen Van Can (Member of National Steering Committee 389) chaired a conference with the participation of relevant ministries and agencies to present evidence of the violations by Asanzo Group Joint Stock Company. The Deputy General Director of Vietnam Customs – Mr....
Vietnam Fiduciary Duty: Negligence Liability in Enterprise
- 18 September 2019
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- by Stephen Le
Characterised as an ‘unintentional crime,’ Negligence in Enterprise Management has incidentally become a prevalent legal issue amongst corporations, state agencies, as well as their associated personnel. With the rise in cases pertaining to negligence in recent years, the need to understand its legal conditions is more imperative than ever: whilst there are two criminal offences under the stipulation of ‘Negligence,’ each offence harbours a distinctive set of provisions for criminal and damage subjects. Moreover, the sentences...
Criminal Law on Anti-Corruption to Non-State Enterprises
- 28 August 2019
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- by Stephen Le
Corruption is a problem that occurs in many countries throughout the world, regardless of whether it is a developed or developing country. As it is a global issue that has recently received a lot of attention, many countries are concentrating on developing solutions to prevent it. This is reflected in the issuance of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (“UNCAC “). Vietnam is a member of this Convention. At the request of UNCAC, Vietnam has gradually...
