Mr. Pham Hong Phong, Managing Director of Oracle Vietnam, shares his views with VET on the technology landscape in Vietnam.

 Everyone knows exercise is good for you. If you want to feel better, have more energy, or even add more years to your life? Just exercise!

 Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group plans to hire around 500 IT engineers every year.

 Surpassing over 1,000 competitors in the qualifications, 120 candidates across the nation joined the final round of the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship – Viettel 2019 on April 7.

 YouTube may once again be boycotted by Vietnamese firms due to concerns over the large number of harmful video content published without supervision.

 E-wallet users have become common targets of online malware attacks and cyber-security companies are warning Vietnamese users to be careful.

 Cyber criminals are using new episodes of popular TV shows to distribute malware, with Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Arrow being their favourites.

An inaugural ceremony for the “Maker Innovation Space” (MIS) in the Can Tho University was held in the Mekong Delta city of the same name on April 5.

 Vietnam aims to become the first country in Southeast Asia to put 5G into commercial operation in 2020, according to Japanese daily Nikkei.

 A group of scientists in the Institute of Stem Cell of the University of Science have been successful in making a drug made from stem cell for treating lumbar degenerative disc and knee osteoarthritis, the first of its kind in the country.

The new project ‘Solutions to increase durability and performance of photovoltaic cells using dye-sensitized matter’ is offering a bright future to green concrete buildings with environmentally friendly energy in HCMC.

VN3.01/13 is the next project of VN3.01/09 – the first cooperation project of its kind between the EU and Vietnam on providing technical assistance for improving the legal framework for nuclear safety.

 Vietnam suffered 620 cyber attacks in the first three months of this year, down by about 50 percent compared with last year’s figure, according to the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Viet Nam plans to raise VND1.7 trillion (US$71.5 million) of investment from the private and foreign sectors to develop the national innovation centre (NIC).

 The HCM City Center for Statistics and Science & Technology Information has just held a conference to introduce the method to turn ash generated from thermal power plants into construction materials.

 51 years old Nguyen Quang Ngoc in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is a real wizard with more than 20 national and international patents though he has not attended any science course.

 Dr. Nguyen Thi Hiep, Dean of the Biomedical Engineering Department in the International University, has spent 10 years researching for a special kind of glue to stick wounds quickly in one minute. 

 Vietnam has experienced more than two decades of connecting to the Internet and joined the race of digital transformation around the globe.

Cloud, AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity are becoming more widely accepted trends in Vietnam, according to Mr. Tan Jee Toon, Country General Manager of IBM Vietnam.

 The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications is forecast to be a pillar of the digital economy and Vietnam has been busy making preparations to become one of the first countries to develop its 5G network.