The article was posted on Tia sáng Journal on 28/3/2013.

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- Introduction about the right to buy houses in Vietnam of Vietnamese residing overseas. Guidelines for procedures to apply for granting of the Certificate of House ownership to Vietnamese residing overseas under the Law on Housing No. 56/2005/QH11 of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam dated 29/11/2005.

- Regulations on the right to establish branches and representative offices of foreign organisations and individuals under the Law on Enterprises No.60/2005/QH11 of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam dated 29/11/2005, Decree No. 88/2006/ND-CP of the Government dated 29/08/2006 providing guidelines for implementation of the Law on Enterprises 2005 on business registration, and Decree No. 72/2006/ND-CP of the Government dated 25/7/2006 providing in detail the Law on Commerce on representative offices and branches of foreign merchants in Vietnam.

From 2008, NHQuang&Associates has cooperated with Que Huong Journal to perform the “Answer- Question” section of legal issues related to Vietnamese residing overseas. This section has received the attention of Vietnamese community abroad.

In the week from Feb 04 to Feb 11, NHQuang&Associates answered the question:

"At present, I am residing overseas but still holding Vietnamese passport. I would like to ask: In case Vietnamese residing overseas are allowed to buy houses in Vietnam, how much tax must be paid?"

Please click the following link for full answer and question: Tạp chí Quê hương online  

In 2012, NHQuang&Associates has coordinated to provide online answers on Vietnam News. All questions and answers are posted in “Opinion/You asked” section on the website of Vietnam News.

The question on 10 July 2012 was about foreigners owning condominiums in Vietnam, foreigners investing in Vietnam.

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Inconsistency in "foreign investment" concept and consequences 

The trend of investment through purchasing shares or contributing capital to Vietnamese enterprises suits either small, medium or big investment scale and all forms of enterprise organsiation. If the application of by-laws documents is still unclear in the policies regarding foreign investors, the investment capital flow from overseas countries or re-investment capital sources from foreign-invested enterprises into other Vietnamese enterprises will be limited.

The above is extracted from the speech of lawyers from NHQuang&Associates made at the Seminar on "Concept of foreign-invested enterprises and procedures of investment for business" held by Investment Review Journal on 30/8/2012. For the full speech, please click here.

Lawyer career in economic crisis

"I have never seen any lawyer who succeeds and have social prestige without a big heart. It is also the pride or the glory of the lawyer career. Thus, similarly to doctor or teacher, lawyer has been an occupation highly respected by the people".

In a recent interview, the editor of Hot Job Corner in Dantri online newspaper has discussed with Mr. Nguyen Tien Lap, senior partner of NHQuang&Associates about the lawyer career in adherence to the current economic context of Vietnam. The discussion shows a truthful film about the occupation from the viewpoint of an experienced lawyer who has trong love for it.

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Public-Private Partnership: for a fair playground.

From now to 2025, HCM City needs about VND 880,000 billion for building and developing the local transportation infrastructure. While the city’s budget for infrastructure investment and capital from ODA are gradually reduced, attracting investments from private investors is a positive solution. Nevertheless, this solution is revealing many shortcomings when private enterprises say that they are playing in an unfair playground with a lot of risks. This was reflected at the Seminar on “Implementing Public-Private Partnership Projects” held under the cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies and Saigon Media Joint Stock Company on 17 July in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr. Nguyen Hung Quang, NHQuang&Associates also attended this seminar. Information is posted in Saigon Tiep thi on 18 July 2012.

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Public-Private Partnership: Urgent demand for a complete law

Resolution No. 13-NQ/TW of the 4^th Conference of Communist Party Central Committee – Legislation XI sets out the guidelines for constructing synchronous transportation infrastructure structure system in order to basically put Vietnam into a modernization oriented industrialized country in 2020. However, the investment capital for the core issue is really a difficult problem. Whether Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Model is a “magic wand” to solve this problem? On 17 July 2012, in Ho Chi Minh city, Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies held a seminar on “Implementation of PPP Projects - Experience and Proposals” in order to raise and analyze some obstacles from the practical implementation of  PPP nature projects before and after Decision 71/2010/QD-TTg; as well as discuss and propose remedial solutions. The seminar also aimed to bring proper awareness of PPP projects, continuing improving legal institution to make the parties, especially private investors feel secure to participate.

Lawyer Nguyen Hung Quang said that currently, due to the inconsistency in the “concept”, inadequate legal corridor, legal policy has created the “application-approval” mechanism in projects and public-private partnership. Private investors cannot be equal to the State in contracts, supporting mechanisms or the form and preferential level based on law. Transportation Newspaper had an article on this seminar dated 18 July 2012.

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