VietNamNet Bridge – State-owned enterprises continued to be the biggest tax contributors in this year's list of 1,000 largest corporate income tax payers in Viet Nam (V1000) at VND77 trillion (US$3.67 billion),

Some 2,900 enterprises out of 6,000 foreign-invested companies set up in accordance with the Foreign Investment Law had failed to renew their operations as regulated by the Enterprise Law 2005 as of May 31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprise owners are now required to hold a regular dialogue with their employees at least once every three months and organise an annual workers meeting to hear their opinions and discuss issues.

VietNamNet Bridge – Eight of 13 laws that took effect since the beginning of 2013 still have no decrees or circulars with instructions on how to implement them. This means that many promulgated laws will be implemented later than planned.

Tussles between local and foreign coffee exporters in the past three to four years will come to an end on June 7 when foreign entities are banned from directly purchasing coffee from farmers and establishing coffee buying networks,