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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” — Bilbo Baggins For those embarking on the process of obtaining a Value Added Tax (VAT) refund in Cambodia – it may feel at times like a perilous journey. It is not unusual for a VAT refund process to be fraught with unexpected twists and turns, testing both your character and your patience. In our experience, however, if you prepare well and travel with the right companions, the VAT refund process can be successfully navigated...

On 16 June 2022, the Vietnamese National Assembly officially approved the amended Intellectual Property Law (“Amended IP Law”). This marks the third time the Vietnamese IP Law has been amended and supplemented since its promulgation in 2005. Its latest update contains revisions and supplements more than 100 articles, marking the most expansive overhaul of this law to date. The majority of the Amended IP Law took effect as of 1 January 2023, but its new regulations on “sound mark” protection apply retroactively from 14 January 2022...

The DFDL Bangladesh team is proud to report that two of our legal experts were the main presenters at a training session for local project developers and potential Commercial and Industrial (“C&I“) consumers, which was organized on 6 February 2023 in Dhaka by GIZ, the main German development agency.

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