Overseas Vietnamese play an important role in developing Vietnam’s economy by contributing their talent and intelligence in the science and technology field, a deputy minister of Science and Technology said recently in HCM City.

 Leading telecom service providers Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone are scrambling to put up base transceiver stations and pilot 4G services to be ready to officially offer them this quarter.

 The application of science and technology will be one of the strategic solutions for restructuring the industry and trade sector as well as for its sustainable development.

 Viet Nam was named the nation facing the second-highest level of cyber security risk in Asia Pacific markets by a Microsoft Asia report on Thursday.

 Cable internet providers plan to expand their networks to rural areas this year to capture a bigger share of the market.

 Viettel, VinaPhone, and MobiFone are preparing for piloting their 4G services before the official launch in the first quarter of 2017, as ordered by the Minister of Information and Communications.

 This February 11 at 4:40am stargazers in Vietnam are in for a rare celestial treat with three spectacular astronomical events coinciding visibly in the night sky, according to the UK newspaper Mirror.

 Thirteen cities and provinces nationwide are slated to have their area codes for landline numbers changed to a three-digit number from February 11.

 Farmers in the central highlands town of Da Lat of Lam Dong gradually forget the concept “Farming is back-breaking work”. 

 Nuclear medicine, the branch of medicine that involves the administration of radioactive substances in order to diagnose and treat disease, is really incredible breakthrough in treating lung cancer.

 At the age of over 80, Prof. Dr Dang Luong Mo is still lucid and nimble, and always has desired to create more and more properties and wealth for the country which has made everyone to be proud of him.

 When meeting Dr. Ha Phuong Thu, only a few can believe that the small-statured woman with a soft Hue accent is a leading scientist.

 Mobile phone operators said they are making preparations to avoid network congestion during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things were high on the agenda as FTP Group Chairman Truong Gia Binh met with business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 

The three telecommunication groups under direct management of the Information and Communications Ministry (MIC) will have to develop their equitisation plans in 2017. 

 Repair work on the Asia-America Gateway (AAG)  and Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine fiber optic cable lines has been  basically completed, said a representative from the Ministry of Information and Communications. 

 Mobile phone sales, which did not see the usual spike during last month’s festive season, seem set to surge in the run-up to the Lunar New Year (Tet).

Mobile phone sales, which did not see the usual spike during last month’s festive season, seem set to surge in the run-up to Lunar New Year.

 Microsoft Vietnam earlier this week signed a memorandum of understanding with Saigon Innovation Hub (SIHUB) to support startups in the information technology sector in the southern region.

 Vietnam’s first astronomical observatory will be put into operation in March this year in the central province of Khanh Hoa.