Police seize 200 tanks containing N2O, gas inside funky balloon

The northern province of Quảng Ninh’s Drug Criminal Investigation Police Department in co-ordination with Hạ Long City police this week seized 221 tanks of nitric oxide (N2O), a gas often inhaled through a balloon.

No discrimination in debt trading

There must be no discrimination in regulations with regard to debt trading between domestic and foreign participants, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has said.

Maritime violation fines to be revamped by MoT The Ministry of Transport has been drawing out a decree on fines for administrative violations in the maritime sector. The new decree will replace decree No. 93 which was issued in 2003.

Joint tax, customs to make reforms easier Joint supervision in tax and customs between relevant ministries and bodies have paved the way for reforms in the Government's economic management, said Nguyen Thien Nhan in Ha Noi on Saturday.

Inspectors uncover banking violations The inspectorate body of the State Bank of Viet Nam has conducted 6,555 inspections on credit institutions in the past five years and uncovered many violations in the banking sector.

Challenges to VN domain name dispute resolution In Viet Nam, the first ."vn" domain name was registered in 1997 and the quantity of ."vn" domain names has rapidly increased. There were 286,561 registered items by September, 2014 (source: APTLD Member Statistics and Growth Report).

Newspapers fined for violating dietary supplement advertising code Inspectors from the Ministry of Information and Communications have fined the Doi Song va Phap Luat (Health and Law) and Suc khoe cong dong (Public Health) newspapers for violating an advertising code.

New admin offence ruling Decree No 108/2013/ND-CP ("Decree 108") has just been issued on September 23 and replaces Decree 85/2010/ND-CP on penalties for administrative offences in securities and securities market sector ("Decree 85"). In comparison with Decree 85, Decree 108 includes some major changes as follows:

New laws to support low income earners Nine laws will come into force today after being passed by the National Assembly.

Deputies back higher fines for misleading advertising A majority of National Assembly deputies consented to the changes in the draft law on advertising at the third session of the 13th National Assembly yesterday. Deputies said changes in the draft law fitted with the realities and interests of consumers.