M&A landscape needs greater clarity

M&A landscape needs greater clarity

At the moment, however, potential foreign investors can only wait in anticipation that the government opts to takes one step forward in the right direction without the two steps back.
Firms afraid of red tape handicaps

Firms afraid of red tape handicaps

The latest draft decree compiled by the Ministry of Planning and Investment to amend Decree 108, which guides the 2005 Law on Investment, has proposed more weighty procedural requirements for large projects.
Decree 102 implementing the Enterprise Law  Addressing investors’ heavyweight concerns

Decree 102 implementing the Enterprise Law Addressing investors’ heavyweight concerns

The regulatory framework for corporate capitalisation, mainly provided for in the Enterprise Law and its old implementing Decree 139, gave investors and shareholders flexibility in capitalisation matters.
An opaque view of retailing

An opaque view of retailing

"While the above timeframe for making the national and provincial planning is foreseeable, the draft decree fails to set out an alternative licencing mechanism during the transitional period"
State poised to take an axe to licencing steps

State poised to take an axe to licencing steps

Authorities are taking a hammer to the numerous hurdles delaying construction projects. The Ministry of Construction (MoC) wants to cut the licencing process for construction projects from three to just one year.