On August 25, the Customs Department of Hai Phong issued two decisions sanctioning a Vietnamese company for the import of trademark-infringing products and the import of prohibited goods, ending more than two months of customs clearance suspension proceedings. The decisions are groundbreaking because of customs’ pioneering standpoint in dealing with refurbished goods.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), Thailand’s anti-corruption agency, has issued a new resource document called “Guidelines on Appropriate Internal Control Measures for Juristic Persons to Prevent Bribery of State Officials, Foreign Public Officials, and Agents of Public International Organizations” (“guidelines”).

What can one parent do if the other parent kidnaps their child and flees to Thailand? The response to this question before 2013 would have been, “nothing, except try to negotiate for the child’s return.” Even though Thailand is a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“Hague Abduction Convention”), there were no clear domestic mechanisms or legal framework in place to deal with abduction by custodial parents prior to 2013.

Thailand is in the process of reforming laws related to payment systems and services, as well as consolidating several overlapping laws that regulate electronic money businesses, with the National Legislative Assembly approving the new Payment Systems Act in August 2017. The new draft of the bill is awaiting royal assent and is expected to be published in the Government Gazette within this year, becoming effective 180 days after its publication.

Medicines can save lives only if they are safe, efficacious, of good quality, and affordable. The use of unsafe, substandard, ineffective, and counterfeit drugs can be harmful to the health of the users and the public. Governments have an obligation to ensure the safety, efficacy, and quality of the drugs available to the public by regulating the manufacturing and distribution of drugs and by exercising legal power to control the proliferation of unsafe counterfeit medicines.

PLC Life Sciences Global Guide  is a Q&A-style chapter that provides an overview of the regulatory frameworks of the life sciences industries across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Legal practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins contributed to the Thailand chapter of the guide, which is comprised of the following two sections:Medical Product Regulation and Product Liability in Thailand

Pharmaceutical experts from Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Vietnam chapters of the latest edition of the PLC Life Sciences Global Guide. PLC’s popular guides provide a comparative overview, in Q&A format, of laws and regulations across a wide range of practice areas in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.The Life Sciences Global Guide  focuses on the pharmaceutical sector and related areas, and is divided into two sections. The first section covers medicinal product regulation and product liability, including the following topics:

“InsurTech” is a term that people may not be able to find a definition for, even in modern dictionaries. There is no Thai translation of it, or for its sister term “FinTech.” The popular opinion is that the term InsurTech was inspired by FinTech, and it should generally be used to refer to the use of technological innovation which enhances the economic efficiency of the insurance industry.