A recent report by the Vietnam Environment Administration showed that forest cover in the South has reduced drastically from 39.7 percent in 2016 to 33 percent in 2018.

Dau Ngoc Huy and Nguyen Ba Luan, the two co-founders of Stringee, a communications platform, have raised almost US$2 million from a local investment fund and other angel investors.

Digital transformation is an inevitable trend in developing and developed countries alike. 5G networks are going live in many markets and it promises to deliver significant socio-economic benefits.

Many users of Vietnam’s social network Gapo, which began operating on July 23, have complained that they could not log into their accounts, or their connections were interrupted.

Vietnam has jumped three spots to the 42nd position out of 129 world economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) as announced by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on July 24.

The HCMC Department of Information and Communications has asked the competent agencies to revoke the domains of Zalo.vn and Zalo.me, a Vietnamese-made messaging app, due to its unlicensed social network operations.

New social network Gapo developed by Vietnamese made its debut in Hanoi on July 23.

Shopee, Tiki and Lazada retained their positions as the top three e-commerce platforms in the Vietnamese market in the second quarter of 2019 while Sendo surpassed Thegioididong to become the fourth largest site for the first time.

“Vietnam is shaping up to be Southeast Asia’s next hottest startup ecosystem” is the title of an article recently posted on the website of TechinAsia – the largest English-language technology media company in Singapore.

Prof. Dr Nguyen Thanh Liem and Dr Nguyen Thi Hiep have been named in a list of the top 100 scientists in Asia recently released by Singapore’s Asian Scientist magazine.

Viettel has become the first Vietnamese network operator to successfully test eSim (electronic Sim) technology on smart watch devices.

Vietnam needs to have its own social network and search engine to replace foreign platforms Facebook and Google, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung at a recent meeting with IT firms in HCMC.

Vietnam suffered the most offline cyber attacks in all of Southeast Asia and the 30th most in the world in the second quarter of this year.

HCMC needs to accelerate the development of its telecom infrastructure to make sure all city residents own smartphones by 2021, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung.

Digital transformation will open up opportunities for Vietnam, mainly technology enterprises, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said at a meeting on July 15.

Vietnam is the country with the highest level of patience in staring at mobile ads with 19 seconds compares to the average time of 8-9 seconds in other countries.

The latest modern techniques in scoliosis orthopaedic surgery have been applied for the first time in Vietnam by the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital, with support from a world leading expert in spinal pathology.

US technology consulting firm KMS Solutions has set up operations in Viet Nam, which it has called a strategic market in Asia.

The Military Industry-Telecoms Group Viettel and MobiFone will provide a pilot 5G network in HCM City at 10 locations near Viettel's building in District 10, and at 12 MobiFone's locations in district 1 and 7.

The HCM City Information Security Centre will be set up at the High-tech Park in District 9, according to People’s Committee vice chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen.