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Philippine investment policy aims to attract, promote, and welcome productive foreign investments in activities that significantly contribute to national industrialisation and socio-economic development to...

Indonesian Intellectual Property (“IP”) laws require recordation of IP licensing agreement with the Directorate General of Intellectual Property. To implement this, other than the…

The Central Bank of Myanmar (“CBM”) has issued Directive No. (6/2018) (“the Directive”) on 8 November 2018, allowing foreign bank branches to provide financing...

On 21 September 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (“MLVT”) issued two new Prakas (Ministerial Proclamation): (i) Prakas No. 442, which establishes...

On 20 August 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (“MOIT”) issued Circular No. 21/2018/TT-BCT (“Circular 21”) to amend several articles in Circular No….

On 4 September 2018, the Bank of Thailand (“BOT”), which is the central bank of Thailand and the regulator of banks in Thailand under…

Under Vietnam’s Law on Social Insurance dated 20 November 2014, from 1 January 2018, foreign employees working in Vietnam with either (i) work permit,...

On 8 October 2018, the Government issued Decree No. 140/2018/ND-CP (“Decree No. 140”) to amend and supplement existing decrees on investment conditions and administrative...

The Department of Energy (“DOE”) has issued Department Circular No. DC2018-09-0027 (“the Circular”), which seeks to identify competitive renewable energy zones (“CREZ”), which in…

On 7 September 2018, the Minister of Trade (MOT) issued Regulation of the MOT No. 94 of 2018 (Reg. 94). Despite superseding three MOT…