A spectacular lunar trifecta combining a total eclipse with a blue moon and super moon could be seen in the skies above HCM City on January 31. 

 The Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) on January 31 officially launched the Sao Khue Awards 2018 – the most prestigious award in the Vietnamese software and IT services industry over the past 15 years. 

 Asian online insurance and financial products comparison site GoBear will set up a new regional software development team in Ho Chi Minh City next month.

 The preferential policies for enterprises in the field of science and technology is encountering various obstacles due to lack of professional capacity and unreasonable mechanism and complicated administrative procedures.

 Cyber security will continue to be a ’hot topic’ this year, demanding the attention of technology experts.

 Creating a market to connect demand and supply of technological products will help develop the technology industry, according to experts.

HCM City’s Science and Technology Department plans to launch a Science and Technology Development Fund while seeking to focus State science and technology organisations on activities relevant to the market and wean them off public funds in 2018.

 More than 35,000 smartphones in Vietnam have been affected by the GhostTeam virus, according to the BKAV Technology Group.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications’ Information Safety Department has detected at least around 700 websites that are cheating Vietnamese internet users.

 FPT Software Company signed a contract worth over US$100 million with Innogy SE, a member of European energy company RWE, in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The AAG undersea cable was fully repaired on the night of January 23, restoring full Internet connectivity between Vietnam and foreign countries, two days earlier than scheduled.

 China imported phones and phone parts worth US$7.15 billion from Vietnam last year, up nearly eight-fold against 2016, according to a newly-released report by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

 Dead Warfare: Zombie is a name of fictitious shooting game of the VNG Corporation (Vinagame) which was ranked the fifth position of “Android Excellence's apps and games” nominated by Google on Android Excellence system.

 The Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA), under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said it would supervise the slowing down of older iPhones taking into account the interest of Vietnamese customers.

 The website freedomhouse.org recently posted the Freedom in the World 2018 report, which maintained biased views and misleading assessments, despite many countries’ opposition.

 FPT Telecom cooperated with The National Payment Corporation of Vietnam (NAPAS) to launch a free automatical paymment service named AutoPay on Hi FPT.

 Newly appointed biology teacher Vu Thi Mai Anh won first prize in food technology at Eureka 2017, a contest for research and technology students on the use of basa catfish fat for producing environmentally-friendly bio-plastics.

 A restaurant in HCM City’s Thu Duc District has used a robot to serve customers.

 HP Vietnam on Tuesday said that it was focusing on new solutions related to its three main areas: core, growth and future.

Vietnam and US multinational technology company - Google LLC want to boost cooperation across the fields of IT and communication as well as share information on the basis of respect for international practices and Vietnamese law.