Foreign companies entering Vietnam usually run into the same question early on. Do you register a representative office or a branch office? The two structures look alike at first glance. Both let a foreign company operate under Vietnamese law without setting up a fully separate local entity. The similarities stop there once you look at […]

District 2 and Thao Dien have become the go-to base for founders, freelancers, and remote teams who want a workspace close to where they actually live. The area sits across the river from downtown Saigon, but Metro Line 1 and a fast-growing business scene have turned it into a work hub in its own right. This […]

Shopping for office space in Ho Chi Minh City usually comes down to one question: what is this actually going to cost? The answer depends on what kind of serviced office you pick, but most businesses end up paying somewhere between 1,500,000 VND and 15,000,000 VND per person each month. A hot desk sits at […]

Closing a representative office in Vietnam takes more than sending a notice to the authorities. Between tax finalization, employee settlements, and paperwork submitted to two separate agencies, the process can stretch from a few weeks to over a month if anything is out of order. Many foreign companies use a representative office as their first […]

Setting up a representative office (RO) is often the fastest way for a foreign company to get a foothold in Vietnam without the cost of a full company. What catches many parent companies off guard is what comes after: an RO carries a recurring set of legal duties, and missing them creates headaches that follow […]

Hiring your first employee in Vietnam involves more than writing an offer letter. Vietnam’s Labor Code applies the same way to a five-person startup as it does to a multinational, and foreign companies who skip the paperwork usually find out the hard way, through a labor inspection or a back-payment demand from the social insurance […]

Vietnam has no digital nomad visa. That fact shapes almost every decision a remote worker makes here, so it comes first, before anything else. What Vietnam does have is a set of ordinary visa categories that remote workers combine to build a long stay, and this guide walks through which ones actually work, what each […]