Following the issuance of the new Law on Enterprise 2020 by the Government, which took effective on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Planning and Investment released Decree 1/2021/ND-CP covering enterprises registration on 4 January 2021 (“Decree 1”). The

Even though 2020 was a challenging year for all, the business environment in Vietnam managed to overcome difficulties achieving a growth rate of 2.91% in 2020, and remained one of only a few economies to achieve positive growth.

Decree 152/2020/ND-CP (“Decree 152”) was recently released by the Vietnamese Government, coming into effect from 15 February 2021, and covers foreign individuals working in Vietnam, along with Vietnamese employed by certain foreign employers. This Decree