Sourcing policy
Eye on Vietnam reads Vietnam's International Financial Centre from the primary texts: the decrees, the National Assembly resolution and the circulars themselves, in the official English versions where they exist. This page states how content is produced, checked and corrected, because on a site about regulation the method is part of the product.
Every tracker row and every post traces to a source in the public register at /sources/. The hierarchy is strict: the signed instrument text outranks every commentary about it. Law-firm summaries, press coverage and secondary analyses are used only to locate questions — never to answer them. Where a claim has no primary text behind it, it is framed as open, asked about, or cut. It is not asserted.
The corpus currently holds the English texts of Decrees 323 through 330, Resolution 222/2025/QH15 and Circular 72/2025/TT-NHNN, plus the research notes derived from them. Decrees 219 and 221 are held in Vietnamese; their English rendering is in progress and pages about them carry that caveat until it is done.
Before anything publishes, its claims are extracted, checked against a register of previously corrected or unresolved claims, and verified against the primary texts. A claim clears only with a verbatim quote from the instrument it cites. Claims that fail are fixed, downgraded to open framing, or cut — there is no fourth option. The gate exists because of a real incident in August 2026, when a draft letter asserted a fee waiver that existed only in press reporting. The full correction history is public at /corrections/.
AI systems assist this site in three places, and you should know where. One: the fact-check gate uses a language model to extract claims from drafts and to match them against retrieved passages of the primary texts — but it may only quote passages it was given, and quotes are checked verbatim against the corpus. Two: research notes in the corpus were drafted with AI assistance and then checked against the decree texts clause by clause; the correction log records what that checking found. Three: page assembly (the tracker, sources and corrections pages) is generated from a database by scripts, not written by hand. Every editorial sentence on the site is written and reviewed by Oron Culzac. No page publishes on machine output alone.
A source monitor checks the official publication channels for new and changed instruments and flags anything that moves. Tracker rows carry issue and commencement dates with their derivation noted, and each regulation page states the date of the text it was read from. When something here becomes wrong, the correction is applied and logged — see /corrections/.