Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 11 -- The National Assembly passes the amended Investment Law, Ha Noi, December 11, 2025

Besides, the law prohibits investment and business activities in such areas as trading narcotic substances; trading certain chemicals and minerals; trading specimens of wild flora and fauna taken from nature; prostitution; human trafficking and the trading of human tissues, bodies, body parts, or fetuses; business activities related to human cloning; trading explosive fireworks; debt collection services; trading and purchasing national treasures; and export of relics and antiques.

Investment projects that manufacture e-devices for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in Viet Nam solely for export must be registered or approved by com...