On June 12, 2018, at the 5th Session of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, XIV passed the Law on Network Security No. 24/2018/QH14 (Law on Network Security), which takes effect, from 01/01/2019.
The Network Security Law consists of 7 chapters, 43 articles, specifically as follows:
Chapter I. General provisions, including 9 articles (from Article 1 to Article 9), regulations on scope of adjustment; word explanation; State policies on network security; principles of network security protection; network security protection measures; protecting national cyberspace; international cooperation on network security; strictly prohibited acts on network security; handling violations of network security.
Chapter II. Protection of network security for important national security information systems, including 6 articles (from Article 10 to Article 15), regulations on important national security information systems; assessing network security for important national security information systems; assess network security conditions for important national security information systems; network security check for important national security information system; network security monitoring for important national security information systems; responding to and troubleshooting network security problems for important national security information systems.
Chapter III. Preventing and dealing with violations of network security, including 7 articles (from Article 16 to Article 22), regulations on prevention and processing of information on cyberspace with contents to propagandize against the State Republic Vietnamese Association; inciting violence, disturbing security, disturbing public order; humiliation and slander; infringing on economic management order; network spy prevention; protect information of state secrets, business secrets, business secrets, personal secrets, family secrets and private lives on cyberspace; to prevent and combat acts of using cyberspace, information technology and electronic means to violate the laws on national security, social order and safety; network attack and prevention; cyber terrorism prevention; prevent and handle dangerous situations of network security; fight for network security protection.
Chapter IV. Activities to protect network security, including 7 articles (from Article 23 to Article 29), regulations on deploying network security protection activities in state agencies and political organizations at central and local levels; network security check for information systems of agencies and organizations not on the list of important national security information systems; protecting network security for national cyberspace infrastructure, international network gateways; ensure information security on cyberspace; research and development of network security; improve autonomy in network security; Protect children on cyberspace.
Chapter V. Ensuring network security protection activities, including 6 articles (from Article 30 to Article 35), regulations on network security protection forces; ensure human resources to protect network security; recruitment, training and development of network security protection forces; educate and foster network security knowledge and operations; disseminating knowledge about network security; network security protection.
Chapter VI. Responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals, including 7 articles (from Article 36 to Article 42), stipulating responsibilities of the Ministry of Public Security; responsibilities of the Ministry of Defense; responsibilities of the Ministry of Information and Communications; responsibilities of the Government Cipher Committee; responsibilities of ministries, branches and provincial People’s Committees; the responsibility of an enterprise providing cyberspace services; responsibilities of cyber agencies, organizations and individuals.
Chapter VII. Implementation provisions, with one article (Article 43), regulations on enforcement.
The National Assembly promulgates the Law on Network Security to perfect the legal basis to protect the sovereignty, interests, national security, legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals participating in cyberspace; building a healthy cyberspace environment; deploying network security work nationwide, stepping up the supervision, forecasting, response and rehearsal of network security incidents, protecting important national security information systems; ensuring the effectiveness of state management in this area; improve autonomy in network security, perfect policies to research, develop strategies, share information on network security.

On October 8, 2018, the Prime Minister issued Decree No. 139/2018/ND-CP stipulating the provision of motor vehicle inspection services. This Decree takes effect from January 1, 2019.
Under this decree, the inspection of motor vehicles is the first and periodic inspection of the quality of technical safety and environmental protection for motor vehicles. In the service of inspection of motor vehicles in addition to sufficiently satisfying the facilities and inspection lines, the personnel in the registry must ensure the following conditions:
– Each inspection line must have at least 03 inspectors, including at least one high-class motor vehicle inspector.
– In charge of inspection line. Each inspection line is only responsible for up to two inspection lines.
– There are leaders of registration units and professional staff who meet the requirements:
+ Minimum qualifications for vocational secondary school graduation;
+ To be trained and certified for the training of test staff in accordance with regulations of the Ministry of Transport.
The promulgation of Decree No. 139/2018 / ND-CP is a clear legal basis for the development of a service sector. At the same time, this is also the basis for the conditions for individual organizations to meet when conducting the business of vehicle inspection services as well as the basis for state agencies to have accurate measures in the evaluation. conditions and licenses for businesses.

On December 10, 2018, the Ministry of Health issued Decision No. 7319/QD-BYT approving the plan for taking polio vaccine (bOPV) for children under 5 years of age at high-risk areas in 2018 – 2019. This decision takes effect from the date of issuance.
Accordingly, this plan will be implemented in 23 provinces with 564,277 children under 5 years of age, including those who have been previously taken or vaccinated bOPV before (except for the case of taking the polio vaccine within 01 months before the date of vaccination).
The plan will organize 02 additional rounds of polio vaccination within 1 month; Each child will receive two doses of vaccine (two drops per dose). At the end of each session, it is necessary to review activities to promptly make up the compensation plan and adjustment activities, to ensure that the vaccination object is not missed.
In addition, Decision No. 7319 / QD-BYT also stipulates the responsibilities of agencies and organizations in implementing the plan, specifically as follows:
• The People’s Committees of provinces and cities in high-risk areas;
• The Department of Health;
• The Preventive Medicine Department.
It can be seen, in the spirit of implementing the World Health Organization’s plan related to reduction polio disease, by approving a plan to take polio vaccine (bOPV) for children under 5 in high-risk areas. In 2018 – 2019, the Ministry of Health has shown a strong determination to actively protect against polio disease, thereby contributing to improving the health quality of children in particular, as well as all citizens in general to avoid bad effects caused by another dangerous disease.

On 15/11/2018, Ministry of Finance promulgated Circular No. 112/2018/TT-BTC amending and supplement some of the articles in Circular No. 174/2015/TT-BTC on 10/11/2015 guiding the accounting of other tax and revenue operations for export and import goods. This Circular takes effect from 01/01/2019.
Accordingly, Circular No. 112/2018/TT-BTC amending and supplementing regulations on making, signing and keeping accounting documents for export and import goods. Specifically, new regulations are as follows:
1. Any accounting related to the accounting of tax and other books for export and import goods must be made with accounting vouchers.
2. Any accounting related to the accounting of tax and other books for export and import goods must be made with accounting vouchers and Decree No. 174/2016/NĐ-CP.
3. Take notes on accounting documents.
The recording on vouchers must be complete, clear, timely and accurate in accordance with Article 18 of the Accounting Law and Decree No. 174/2016/ND-CP; The written word on the voucher must be continuous, not interrupted, must not be abbreviated or erased or corrected; When writing, must use a pen or ink pen; do not write in red ink, with pencil; The amount written in words must be consistent with the amount written in numbers. The first word must be in capital letters, the other words are written in lowercase; must be written close to the beginning of the line, the letters and digits must be written continuously so that it does not have to be spaced, write all the new lines down another line, do not write insertion lines, do not overwrite printed letters; the blank must be crossed out so that it cannot be corrected, add numbers or add text. Documents of erased or corrected are not valid for payment and accounting books. When writing incorrectly on a printed form, it must be canceled by slashing the wrong document.
4. Accounting vouchers must be made in a sufficient number of copies. In case of having to make many accounting vouchers for economic and financial operation, the contents of the copies must be the same
5. Accounting vouchers made in the form of electronic vouchers must comply with Article 17, Article 18, Article 19 of the Accounting Law and Decree No. 174/2016/ND-CP.
6. Sign accounting voucher
Accounting vouchers must be signed in accordance with Article 19 of the Accounting Law and the Decree No. 174/2016/NĐ-CP. The signature on a person’s accounting voucher must be consistent and must be identical to the registered signature form; The preparer, the approver and others who sign the accounting voucher must be responsible for the contents of the accounting voucher; persons who are responsible for signing accounting vouchers may only sign vouchers when the full contents of their contents are recorded according to regulations.
Thus, by issuing Circular No. 112/2018/TT-BTC, the Ministry of Finance has provided detailed and specific guidelines for setting up, signing and keeping accounting documents for export and import goods thereby creating conditions for individuals and organizations to implement these accounting activities quickly and accurately while tightening the state management of these activities.

On November 7th, 2018, the Government issued Decree No. 149/2018/ND-CP detailing Clause 3, Article 63 of the Labor Code on implementing democratic regulations in the workplace. This Decree takes effect on January 1th, 2019.
Accordingly, the employer must declare: The situation of implementing production and business tasks; rules, regulations and other regulations of enterprises relating to their obligations, rights and legitimate interests; collective labor agreement and others that enterprises participate in; workers conference resolutions; the establishment and use of reward fund, welfare fund and other funds contributed by employees (if any); deduction of trade union funds, social insurance premiums, health insurance and unemployment insurance; the implementation of emulation, commendation, discipline, settlement of complaints and denunciations related to the rights and legitimate interests of workers.
Besides, this Decree also regulated that employees are entitled to comment on the formulation, amendment, and supplementation of rules, regulations and other regulations of enterprises relating to obligations, rights and legitimate interests of workers; formulate, amend and supplement salary scales, payrolls and labor norms; propose collective agreement contents; propose, implement solutions to save costs, improve labor productivity, improve working conditions, protect the environment, prevent fire and explosion; Other contents related to employees’ rights and obligations following the regulation of law.
It can be seen that the Government has detailed and specific guidelines on implementing democratic regulations at the workplace, thereby ensuring the highest objective of the state’s policy is a democracy for an employee in order to ensure the rights and legitimate interests of workers.