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    • Audit and Assurance Audit and Assurance
      • Anti-Fraud Playbook: The best defence is a good offense
      • Setting up an Internal Audit function in private sector
      • Accounting Alert - Circular No.133/2016/TT-BTC
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      • New motivation for bilateral investment through UKVFTA
      • Discussion between the Prime Minister Dialogue with FDI enterprises
      • Why integrate ESG plans into business?
      • Benefits are clear for Britain’s entry into Trans-Pacific deal
      • Grant Thornton Vietnam: FDI to benefit from improved global outlook
      • Sustainable development: responsibility for us
      • Insights from Kenneth Atkinson OBE Enter the Dragon
      • Insights into the 2024 annual Vietnam Business Forum
      • Where is environmental governance in FDI attraction?
      • A Framework For The Future
      • Improving Institutions and the Business Environment
      • Sustaining Vietnams Economic Growth in the face of building head winds
      • Vietnam’s economic outlook
      • Notes from Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s speech at the event organized by Standard Chartered Bank on the first day of COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland
      • Making vaccine visa trial worthwhile for Vietnam
      • Free trade deal increasing Vietnam’s allure to Brits
      • Domestic tourism rebounds, but safety remains overriding theme
      • Potential in reach to become decade’s stand-out performer
      • Vietnam’s High Income ambitions by 2045
      • Will Vietnam gain from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?
      • Meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
      • Vietnam’s First Quarter Growth and Currency Forecast
      • Vietnam’s under invested Agricultural Sector.
      • Economic performance 2020 and forecast for 2021
      • Welcoming further FDI
      • Winners set apart by sturdy survival plans
      • Vietnam's Economy and FDI
      • Domestic Tourism and the Tourism Sector
      • Time for a tweak or change to the Economic model
      • What the West can learn from Vietnam
      • Vietnam second home market
      • Support for business amid the Covid-19 outbreak
      • The Benefits and Challenges of the EU Vietnam FTA
      • Tourism Advisory Board Recommendations to the Government
      • Labour Productivity
      • Role and support of FDI in rapid & sustainable development
      • Vietnam – Past, Present, and Future
      • Condotels
      • Economic Performance & the likely impact of CPTPP and EVFTA
      • The impact of Technology on Asian Labour Markets
      • Developments in the logistics sector
      • Vietnam’s Aviation Sector.
      • Vietnam sets a fair course with mounting headwinds
      • Labour Productivity- is a breakthrough imminent?
      • New Opportunities for UK business
      • The push and pull for Public Private Partnerships.
      • Vietnam Private Sector Economic Forum 2019
      • Vietnam’s changing energy trends.
      • Helping the Private Sector and SME’s create future growth
      • Shaping the Future
      • The need for Innovation and Human Resource Development
      • The reality of CPTPP starts to bite…
      • Insights
      • Vietnam’s prospects for 2019
      • 2018 another year of record achievements for Vietnam
      • Sharing opportunities in the world of changing trade
      • Vietnam’s growth projections
      • Benefits and Challenges of CPTPP
      • Chairman's Insights
      • Chairman’s Insights – October 8th 2018 Vietnam’s 30 years of Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”)
      • Tourism boom fuels upscale hotel supply
      • Vietnam among the economic outperformers
      • Condotels friend or foe for the tourism industry?
      • Wage Growth and Productivity
      • Good news for Solar Power Investors
      • Vietnam’s new Cyber Security Law
      • Will Vietnam legalise sports gambling
      • Vietnam’s labour force
      • Will PPP finally get off the ground?
      • 180514 Vietnam's productivity problem
      • Danang a city of the future?
      • Military relations with USA
      • Reflections on Vietnam’s amazing Progress
      • Vietnam’s Oil and Gas Sector
      • The Improving Business Climate
      • Vietnam - Outlook for 2018
      • 2017 – A year of achievements
      • Vietnam Business Forum (“VBF”) – Hanoi Plenary Meeting
      • Asia Pacific: trading and thriving
      • Equitisation now providing opportunities to private investors
      • Unleashing the potential of Ho Chi Minh City
      • New Regulations for Casino Operations
      • The importance of APEC to Vietnam
      • Vietnams export performance
      • Is Vietnam making progress in the global software outsourcing market?
      • Power Purchase Agreements for Solar Power
      • Casino Operations in Vietnam – Chasing Rainbows?
      • Red Tape and Bureaucracy
      • The tax man cometh !
      • Electronic Invoices
      • M and A in Vietnam
      • Hi Tech Agriculture
      • The Vietnam Private Sector Forum
      • Resolution of Non-performing loans.
      • The emerging derivatives market
      • Vietnam Hotel Industry
      • Strengthening the links between the foreign invested sector and Local enterprises
      • 7-Eleven to join the growing number of convenience stores.
      • Are we about to enter a new era on Transparency?
      • Startups and encouraging private enterprises
      • Infrastructure Development
      • Can Vietnam achieve a green growth strategy and 100% renewable energy
      • Corporate Governance or the lack thereof
      • What is in store for Private Equity
      • Tourism Update
      • Actual impact of the demise of TPP and what about RCEP
      • The Opportunities in the Central Highlands
      • Catering to the gamblers
      • Information Technology growth in job demand
      • Vietnamese Small and Medium Size Enterprises (“SME’s”)
      • Ho Chi Minh City and the Smart City Aspiration
      • The ASEAN Economic Community
      • Messages from prominent officials
      • The impact of the demise of the Trans Pacific Partnership
      • Mergers and Acquisitions continue to be buoyant
      • The income disconnect
      • My expectations for 2017
      • Vietnam’s Tourism Sector
      • How will the failure of the TPP Agreement really impact Vietnam
      • Concerns of Foreign Investors heard and understood
      • Vietnam Business Forum - Strengthening the Private Sector
      • Is reality dawning and are we about to enter the second phase of Doi Moi?
      • Vietnam Summit - November 6th 2016
      • The Fiscal Deficit and Divestment strategy for SOE’s
      • Vietnam’s Retail Sector
      • Vietnam a regional star as an investment destination
      • Green Energy in Vogue
      • Contributions to Vietnam’s GDP and Balance of Payments
      • Vietnam’s economic performance
      • Vietnam’s agro sector
      • The opportunity for renewable energy
      • Draft Rules on the “equitisation” of SOEs announced
      • Mergers and Acquisitions
      • The Beer Market in Vietnam
      • Vietnam Tourism Update
      • Startups’ revisited
      • Vietnam Taxation for Newly-Established Enterprises
      • Taxation in Vietnam – Personal Income Tax (“PIT”)
      • US Presidential Visit May 23rd 2016
      • Taxation in Vietnam - Value Added Tax ("VAT")
      • Taxation in Vietnam – Corporate Income Tax (“CIT”)
      • Meeting with the New Prime Minister
      • Furniture sector
      • The Importance of FDI
      • Chairman's Insights
      • Supply Chain Opportunities
      • Vietnam Coffee
      • Vietnam 2035
      • Investment Outlook
      • Vietnam’s travel, tourism and leisure sector - Part 2
      • Vietnam’s travel, tourism and leisure sector
      • Vietnam’s economy is forecast to outperform SEA Countries
      • ASEAN Economic Community
      • Quang Nam - Da Nang
      • Private sector clarity of regulations a must
    • Global trade
    • Global trade
    • Technology Solutions Consulting Technology Solutions Consulting
      • US chipmakers hit ground running with Vietnam plans
      • Catch up with the digital transformation trend through ERP systems - A holistic solution for modern businesses
      • The Intelligent Management Reporting Solution - Integrated with ERP systems and Accounting Software
      • Set up an ERP system to improve business performance
      • Case Study – CJ OLIVE Networks VINA
      • Technology Solutions Consulting
      • SAP Business One and Telegram – The ultimate meeting for businesses
      • Technology Solutions Consulting
      • Technology Solutions Consulting
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      • New service: Technology Consulting & Solutions
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      • Technology Solutions Consulting
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      • What have business KPIs got to do with running? Plenty.
      • Trends in Data analytics and AI in Marketing today
      • Every digital project needs quality assurance
      • Now’s time for a digital audit
      • What the data says about business pandemic resiliency in Vietnam
      • Grant Thornton Vietnam releases results of Business Pandemic Resilience Diagnostic
      • Combining your Work From Home and and Business Continuity Plan
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    • Thought Leadership Thought Leadership
      • Sweef Capital 2023 Impact Report
      • Navigating tariffs
      • Grant Thornton grows global revenues to a record USD7.5 billion
      • Women workforce participation
      • ELP in Vietnam: ‘Caring plays an essential role in teamwork and cooperation’
      • The Resilience Wheel
      • Navigating uncertain times
      • Women in Business 2024
      • Leadership qualities for going global
      • Checklist for international growth
      • Growing your business through global trade
      • Tariff War and Relocation of Global Supply Chain
      • Thriving in 2019’s global economy
      • Brexit: Planning the future, shaping the debate
      • M&A
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      • Food & Beverage
      • International Business Report (IBR)
      • Real Estate & Construction
      • Private Equity
      • Doing Business in Vietnam
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    • General General
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      • Merger and Acquisition
      • How to minimise the Coronavirus impact on your business?
      • Ho Chi Minh City
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      • Global Dynamism Index (GDI)
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      • Expatriate tax newsletter, edition 7
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      • Conflict resolution in transfer pricing
      • International indirect tax ebook
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      • Balancing risks and rewards in transfer pricing
      • Getting to grips with the BEPS Action Plan
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    • Offshore Updates Offshore Updates
      • Offshore Update
      • New Annual Return requirements in the BVI
      • Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) - a changing EU regulation
      • BVI Update: Importance of Amendment BVI Business Companies Act taking effect on January 1st, 2023
      • Hong Kong‘' New Inspection Regime Updating on the implementation of Phase 2 on October 24th, 2022
      • BVI Update – Major changes in 2022 of the BVI Business Companies Act
      • FATCA/CRS Compliance: 3 Frequently Asked Questions
      • MOU between RAK ICC and Ras Al Khaimah Municipality Department - New properties ownership opportunity for foreign investors in UAE
      • Update on Annual License Fee and Economic Substance Reporting Invoices
      • Singapore Budget 2021: Our observations & analysis
      • Important notice on deadline extension for Economic Substance reporting
      • Cayman Islands removed from EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions
      • Singapore Variable Capital Company – another fund management structure
      • Cayman Islands Economic Substance: Extension to the reporting deadlines
      • What if you have missed the compliance deadline for BVI Private Funds
      • Could re-domiciling to RAK ICC be an alternative solution to the BVI Economic Substance test?
      • The role of offshore companies in post pandemic restructuring
      • BOSS roll-out and your next steps
      • Economic Substance Compliance and Reporting
      • BVI Update

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