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...Data restrictions would “breach” Vietnam’s obligations under the CPTPP trade deal, the successor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to the Asia Internet Coalition....
...“In my conversations, the drafters (of the law) are quite receptive to hearing what other countries are doing,” said Manh-Hung Tran, head of the Vietnam tech practice at consultancy Baker McKenzie....
...The US-China tariff war was a more recent driver of businesses migrating south, but before that it was the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...Hanoi agreed to scrap the test in a trade deal with the European Union as well as in the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...The campaigns to report critics to Facebook allow the government to censor without official takedown orders, said Legal Initiatives for Vietnam co-director Vi Tran....
...“I share the concerns regarding the feasibility and sensibility of this requirement, especially when this rule applies to the cross-border platform,” Baker McKenzie partner Tran Manh Hung told Nikkei Asia...
...“Vietnam will actively and selectively attract foreign investments, taking high quality, efficiency, modern technology and environmental protection as the key benchmarks,” Tran Quoc Phuong, deputy minister...
...Mr Duc was referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a comprehensive, 12-nation trade pact that would have given Vietnamese exports easy access to a vast market....
...Chief executive Mai Kieu Lien said “technical barriers” such as product registration had hindered Vinamilk's regional investments....
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