A native of Dien Bien Province, the Mong man joined the border force a year ago, and is now a member of the Apachai Border Guard Post in Muong Nhe District, which straddles two borders, that with Laos and China.

 FPT Group is developing an artificial intelligence program as a platform for developing tools that conduct conversations via auditory or textual methods. 

 IBM and Five9 Viet Nam announced on Thursday they would work together on cloud services to bring cognitive computing to enterprises and organisations in Viet Nam.

 Stargazers in Vietnam are expected to see Lyrids meteor shower from midnight Saturday.

 As Vietnamese telecom providers rush to launch their fourth generation (4G) services, the market for duly geared smart phones has also been heating up. 

Viettel launched its 4G service in Hanoi on April 18 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

 A two-day international conference on information science and technology opened in central Da Nang city on April 17. 

  FPT Software expects to earn US$200 million through the sale of automotive technology solutions and employ 8,000 people by 2020, the company said.

 The Viet Nam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) honoured 64 IT products and services on Saturday that had won Sao Khue Awards.

 Three Vietnamese start-up teams of Drop Deck, Turing and BKIT have surpassed other rivals to win the Blockchain-based projects contest, local technology page ictnews.vn reported on April 14.

 Customers who want to use Vietnamese domain names can register through registrars instead of registering with the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) from April 15.

 A number of mobile stores in Hanoi began removing Apple’s “half-eaten apple” logo from their shop banners following the US tech company’s request sent to Vietnamese mobile traders recently.

The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and the Novicom Company of the Czech Republic have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cyber security cooperation.

 The 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) will be held in central Da Nang city from April 16 to 18.

At the age of 88, twice a week on his wheelchair, Prof. Dr. Hoang Thuy Nguyen still goes to work at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE). 

 Vietnam will present 30 reports – out of 125 total from 25 countries and territories – on information technology to the 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) in Da Nang on April 16-18.

 The international internet connection in Vietnam is working at normal speed once again after the cable connecting Southeast Asia to the US was rewired on Saturday.

 Retail store FPT Shop officially began sales of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus RED Special Edition in Viet Nam on Sunday.

 4G is going to be officially launched and this will open up a new race among Vietnamese network providers.

 The internet throughout Vietnam should now be ‘fully recovered’ and ‘operating normally’, says government owned telecommunications company VNPT.