By Hoa Dinh ( August 14, 2026, 07:56 GMT | Insight) -- Digital platforms in Vietnam could face broader competition scrutiny based on their control of data, network effects, ecosystems, users and algorithms under proposed changes to the country's competition law, with a draft implementing decree setting out how several of the new tests would work. The decree would also exempt four categories of economic concentrations from merger-notification requirements, while expanding the types of transactions that can fall within the merger-control regime.Digital platforms in Vietnam could face broader competition scrutiny based on their control of data, network effects, ecosystems, users and algorithms under proposed changes to the country's competition law, with a draft implementing decree now setting out how several of those new tests would work in practice....
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