In brief On 27 June 2025, the National Assembly officially passed Resolution No. 222/2025/QH15 (“the Resolution”) establishing an international financial center (IFC) in Vietnam.…
In brief On 14 June 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law on Digital Technology Industry (“DTI Law”) in its ninth session. The DTI…
28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention…
Vietnam is releasing a brand-new draft decree superseding Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP (as amended) (“Decree 72”) on the management, provisions, and use of Internet services and online information (“Draft Decree”).
On 19 June 2023, the Vietnam Authority of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Information Communication held a workshop to collect relevant stakeholders’ comments on the management policies towards data center services, cloud computing services, and OTT services in the Draft Law on Telecommunications.
In order to enforce (i) Decree 53 guiding the Cybersecurity Law and (ii) the Personal Data Protection Decree (i.e., Decree 13), the Ministry of…
The long-awaited Decree on Personal Data Protection has finally been issued as Decree No. 13/2023/ND-CP last night.
The Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just issued Official Letter No. 923/QD-BVHTTDL for the inception of a working group regulating film dissemination in cyberspace given the rampant dissemination of toxic videos and illegal films on digital platforms.
The Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications recently held a meeting on payment methods in online gaming to discuss the current legal landscape and compliance situation in Vietnam.
When first introduced in 2021, the draft Personal Data Protection Decree was heralded as a Vietnamese counterpart to the GDPR and a new standard for data privacy in Vietnam.