Chinese smartphone players have quickly gained market share in Vietnam by offering innovative products at competitive prices.

 Vietnamobile Telecommunications JSC (Vietnamobile) has appointed Christina Hui, a representative from Hong Kong’s Hutchison Group, as its new CEO, succeeding Elizabete Fong.

 Vietnam will be one of the first countries to deploy fifth-generation (5G) network, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized at the first-ever ASEAN Conference on 5G in Hanoi on March 22.

 Director of the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications Nguyen Ngoc Ky stressed that Hanoi’s 5G network testing is considered a basis to promote the capital’s e-government infrastructure.

 Minister of Information and Communication (MIC) Nguyen Manh Hung highlighted the role of 5G – the next generation of wireless technology – as the pillar of the digital economy at the ASEAN Conference on 5G in Hanoi on March 21.

 When Dr. Nguyen Hoa Anh returned home after 15 years of studying and teaching in Japan, he did not imagine that he would encroach on molecular biology one day, with practical products containing billions of "made in Vietnam" spore probiotics.

 Thirteen projects received first prizes in the annual National Science and Technology Contest for high school students in the southern region at an awards ceremony at Tôn Đức Thắng University in HCM City on Tuesday.

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.

Vietnam may still be in the early stages of smart home development but the potential is huge.

 Major US high-tech corporations including 3M, Dow, Amazon and Qualcomm are seeking cooperation in technology and innovation with Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team has reported that GandCrab ransomware affiliates which had been spreading globally over the past year had updated to version 5.2.

 The Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) and the Laos’ Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPT) on March 15 launched the E-Office – an electronic document management system jointly developed by the two sides.

 Samsung Vietnam (Samsung Vina) officially launched the Samsung Showcase, a technology exhibition and experience centre at the Bitexco building in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15. 

 Facebook, the world's largest social network, has been partially interrupted by what is believed to be a DDOS attack, adding to his troubles from a criminal investigation into its data deals with 150 companies.

 The VND1.08 trillion (US$46.5 million) LIG solar power plant - the first of its kind in the central province of Quang Tri is expected to become operational in June.

 The incident occurred on a large scale, and Vietnam is affected with average scale.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed an approval for the introduction of the document and work record management system in the inauguration ceremony of the National E-document Exchange Platform on March 12.

 Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers may earn a monthly salary of over US$2,200, as the demand for labor within the industry is on the rise.

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that the winner of the National Science and Technology Contest will take part in the upcoming Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US.

 Power Centric, a Vietnamese company based in the Saigon High-tech Park, has succeeded in developing a lithium battery technology called Mopo for use in electric bikes.