Raj Lakhotia, Founder, Dilsewill,, answers estate planning queries in this week’s edition from our readers. If a father has willed a self-acquired property to someone with the signatures of sons, but not the daughters, before or after 2005, can it be contested? — C.K. Singh One can bequeath a self-acquired property to anyone as per his wish. However, the legal heirs who have the right and interest in the property can always challenge the bequest. The court then examines the validity of bequest, the reason behind not allocating anything to legal heirs, and finally pronounces the judgement. In this case,…
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Vietnam – A safe destination for development of foreign direct investment. Foreign investors maintained their trust in Vietnam despite countless difficulties last year and the country is viewed as a safe destination for development, a recent forum in Hanoi heard. he Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnam Economic Times co-held the Connections for Development Forum 2021 held late last month, with the theme “Seizing New Opportunities for Localities and Businesses”. Addressing the forum, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said that Vietnam is emerging as an attractive investment destination in Asia and its nation brand value is growing at the…
As of Sunday morning, infection tally in Vietnam’s new Covid wave crosses 1,000, VNExpress reported. Yesterday, the country saw 165 community transmissions confirmed in the country, marking the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories. The Health Ministry confirmed 127 domestic infections Sunday morning, raising the infection tally in Vietnam’s fourth coronavirus wave to 1,080. The new patients were recorded in four northern provinces of Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Dien Bien and Hoa Binh, all related to previously confirmed patients and outbreaks in areas that have been already isolated. Bac Giang…
The tech startup VINADES only spends half the time on R&D and half the time with repeatedly applying for a license . The MPI requested DauThau.info to stop scanning the data of the National Procurement Network on April 22, 2021 saying that VINADES’s access and scanning of bidding data on the system for private use in the past time is contrary to Decree 47/2020/ND-CP of the Government. After that, 104 bidders submitted petitions to the MPI to seek for the ministry’s permission for the technology to access and read information automatically on the National Procurement Network, including DauThau.info software. The…
Though land fever has eased, prices are still high. The apartments in projects in advantageous positions are being offered at sky-high prices of VND300-400 million per square meter. The Ministry of Construction’s (MOC) Q1 report on the real estate market showed that there were nearly 25,400 successful transactions in the quarter, a sharp decrease of 86 percent compared with Q4 2020. The figure included 5,571 successful transactions in Hanoi and 3,450 in HCM City. There were over 11,000 transactions in the north and 6,000 in the south. These transactions were mostly seen in affordable market segment, while the transactions of…
Forty-six Covid-19 patients in Vietnam are experiencing worsening medical conditions, including 13 suffering very serious symptoms. They are among a total of around 1,120 Covid-19 patients being treated at 53 medical facilities across Vietnam at present. Two of the patients, one at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi and the other at the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, are using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) treatment. The National Hospital of Tropical Diseases is now offering treatment for 330 patients, including 13 in critical condition. Particularly, Patient 3019, 54, from the northern province of Thai Binh is in critical…
Vietnamese electronics giant Mobile World has launched a collaboration program with small retailers towards increasing its market share. Mobile World CEO Doan Van Hieu Em said small electronics retailers can collaborate with Mobile World and sell every product available on the websites of Mobile World and Dien May Xanh, its two electronics retail chains which sell smartphones, computers and household products. They will receive a commission of 5-20 percent of the product’s price for each product they sell. After the collaborators inform Mobile World and Dien May Xanh of their order, the two chains will handle all follow up tasks…
A 89-year-old woman with Covid-19 died Saturday, becoming the country’s 36th coronavirus death and the first in eight months. “Patient 3839” died with “underlying conditions,” according to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control. She was diagnosed with severe pneumonia due to Covid-19, advanced respiratory failure, diabetes and hypertension, among others. The patient lived in Thuan Thanh District in the northern province of Bac Ninh. She had made contact with a coronavirus case and tested positive on Thursday. She had been supported with ventilators and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), among other measures to stave off infections. Vietnam’s previously…
18 more Covid-19 infection cases were reported in Vietnam at noon on Saturday, raising the total number of patients in the country to 3,854, the Ministry of Health has reported. According to the ministry’s report, 16 out of the 18 newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases who were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown, including nine in Bac Giang Province, two in Dien Bien Province, two in Hanoi, and one each in Bac Ninh, Ha Nam, and Hung Yen provinces. As of Saturday noon, 823 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on…
Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE in 2021, the country’s health ministry said on its website. The health ministry also registered to buy about 10 million additional doses through Covax, a program backed by WHO and other global health groups, the ministry said. In all, the government so far has wrapped up deals to acquire about 110 million vaccine doses. The ministry did not specify how Vietnam will acquire the Pfizer doses. Vietnam has a deal with AstraZeneca Plc. to supply 30 million doses. The country also expects 38.9 million AstraZeneca doses…