Vietnam Internet Day 2018, with theme of "Internet and Vietnam’s digital ecosystem", aimed at creating a knowledge connection, support and linkage among enterprises, users and state agencies in the Internet industry.

Le Diep Kieu Trang, country director for Facebook Vietnam, on December 5 announced on her Facebook page that she would quit late this year as she wants to spend more time with her family and launch new personal initiatives.

 Vietnamobile has decided to discontinue its “Thanh SIM” prepaid plan from January and focus instead on “Sieu thanh SIM” prepaid SIM cards.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has said the infrastructure for broadband and database have been pulling out all the stops to in order to finalise the mobile 4G network and deploy 5G in 2020.

 MicroDragon, a made-in-Vietnam earth observation satellite, will be launched into space in Japan on January 17, 2019, according to the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

 The 2018 Information Security Index of Vietnam was 45.6 percent, a figure at average level, reported by Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) in Hanoi on November 30.

 The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) and Ericsson signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday in Ha Noi to establish an Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Hub.

 The VNCERT’s statistics showed there had been 8,319 network attacks in Viet Nam as of the end of the third quarter of this year, including 1,575 malware cases, 4,829 deface cases and 1,915 phishing attacks.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) and PwC Vietnam co-organized a cyber security drill in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Da Nang on November 29.

 The Ministry of Defense has appointed Colonel Nguyen Thanh Nam as Deputy General Director of the Viettel Group.

 Experts shared their experiences and discussed solutions to strengthen information and cyber security at a conference in HCM City on Wednesday.

 By the end of this year, Vietnam will need a workforce of 350,000 IT employees. However, to date the supply can meet only half of the requirement. 

 The Department of Information, Microsoft, Vietnet – ICT, and the Dariu Foundation have launched the Hour of Code.

 Threats to information safety and cybersecurity are becoming more serious as the use of unsafe equipment such as internet protocol cameras, routers and Voice over Internet Protocol is increasing in Vietnam.

 The Authority of Information Security recently gave some recommendations to protect legal rights and interests of customers and enterprises following alleged data leaks from The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) Corporation and FPT Shop.

 The launch of various mobile number portability (MNP) services has stirred fierce competition among telecommunication providers in Viet Nam.

 The focus of space technology is the cosmos, but the technologies that are helping us explore our universe are now also saving lives.

Giant mobile networks in Vietnam have officially offered the Mobile Number Portability service since November 16, 2018 for all postpaid subscribers. However, report showed that on the first day, only a few hundred customers used this service.

 Hanoi gathers favorable conditions to become headquarters of world’s leading corporations, according to a business executive.

 US and China’s firms are looking at shifting production, assembly or sourcing of supplies to third countries, with Southeast Asia as the leading choice.