With a view to contributing further to the international efforts in promoting and protecting human rights in the world, Vietnam has joined almost all important international conventions on human rights and made efforts to make basic human rights be respected and better ensured. Vietnam News Agency interviewed Ms. Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, about Vietnam’s efforts in promoting and protecting human rights, as well as the UN assistance to Vietnam in this area.

The Government has issued a decree on the management of the quality of construction works with new regulations to control their quality and prevent loss and wastefulness in investment capital, especially in State-funded construction ones.

At present, industrial property fees are applied according to the Schedule of Fees and Charges for Industrial Property provided in the Ministry of Finance’s Circular No.22/2009/TT-BTC dated May 4, 2009.

Four years after Vietnam allowed foreigners to buy homes in the country, only 427 foreigners, including overseas Vietnamese, officially owned a Vietnamese home, according to statistics of the Land Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

In Vietnam, great importance has been attached to private international law, which has actually developed since the country initiated “doi moi dat nuoc” (national renewal), shifting to a market economy and implementing the open-door policy.