ASEAN law forum opens in Hanoi An ASEAN law forum on several conventions of The Hague Conference on Private International Law with relation to ASEAN took place in Hanoi on November 14. In his opening remarks, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Khanh Ngoc said four ASEAN countries are currently members of The Hague Conference and participated in a total of 12 conventions. Vietnam joined The Hague 1993 Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption in 2011 and became a member of The Hague Conference in 2013. The country participated in The Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters in 2016. Ngoc said Vietnam is considering the possibility of joining other conventions of The Hague Conference regarding legal and judicial cooperation, including those on the abolishment of requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents, the taking of evidence, and … [Read more...] about Social News 15/11
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Tropical storm to hit East Sea
Two tonnes of elephant tusks seized at Hai Phong port The Customs Department in the northern port city of Hai Phong has seized more than two tonnes of elephant tusks and about 146 kilograms of tortoise-shells illegally imported from Malaysia. The cargo was found in a container shipped from Malaysia en route to China. The banned goods were hidden in sacks of sea shells. The cargo had been declared as sea shells. Tusks and tortoise-shell are banned goods in Viet Nam under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which came into effect in 1994. Typhoon Nari heading towards East Sea Typhoon Nari, with gale-force winds gusting up to 149kph near its eye, is moving into the East Sea and is forecast to strike central Vietnam in a couple of days. At 07.00am on October 11 Nari was positioned 320km East of the Philippines’ Luzon island, and was regaining strength. In the next 24 hours the typhoon is forecast to travel between west and … [Read more...] about Tropical storm to hit East Sea