Hanoi based tech start-up, Gamota, has won the first ever Facebook hackathon in Vietnam for its beta version of a business management application. 

 The Institute for Nanotechnology-Vietnam National University HCM City said on December 20 that it has made a system to automatically monitor salinity in rivers in the Mekong Delta and set off an alarm if the level is too high.

 A digital economy is an inevitable step for development as the traditional economy is being saturated, said Nguyen Thanh Hung, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications at the 2016 Internet Day event in Hanoi.

 Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park granted investment licences to nine projects worth a total of 200 million USD in 2016, bringing the number of licensed projects up to 78 worth 3 billion USD combined.

 Viet Nam is set to launch two radar satellites in 2019 and 2022 into orbit to assist forecast of and preparation for climate change

 Tima, a Vietnamese peer-to-peer (P2P) lending tech platform, successfully gathered Series A funds from a Singaporean investor.

Viet Nam will open its first ever astronomical observatory in Nha Trang next March, according to the Viet Nam National Satellite Centre (VNSC).

A new printed monthly Vietnamese magazine specializing in mathematics will be published from January 2017.

MWG Board of Management has announced the company’s business plan for 2017, with total revenue and after-tax profit to reach $2.83 billion and $98.6 million, up 85 per cent and 58.5 per cent against 2016, respectively.

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells with glycerol at -80 degree Celsius for 10 years and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist have been awarded the KOVA Prize.

Google search trends for 2016 in Vietnam reveal that games, sports, entertainment, and lottery results were the most searched topics among Vietnamese internet users.

 The key point in building smart cities is suitable planning, said Hoang Le Minh, director of the Viet Nam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) at the 2016 IT Day held in Ha Noi on Thursday.

 The overall growth of Vietnam’s telecom market will start to decline following a period of rapid development, according to “The Emerging Asia-Pacific telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2016-2021” released by The Report Linker.

 A project aiming to promote biodiversity in Viet Nam was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) in the northern province of Lao Cai.

  The military-run telecommunication group Viettelsaid it will remove roaming charges for phone calls among its subscribers in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

 Viet Nam earned US$29.8 billion from the export of phones and devices between January and November, a year-on-year increase of $3 billion, or 10.7 per cent, the Vietnam Customs said.

 Management board of the Quang Binh's Phong Nha- Ke Bang National Park yesterday announced that Polystichum quangbinhense is a rare threatened species which grows inside its cave systems.

The military-run Viettel continues leading the list among local telecommunications companies with high revenue during the first eleven months of 2016, according to the latest remarks from the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Leading integrated fintech service provider Credit China Fintech Holding Limited has spent US$12.73 million on acquiring a 51% stake in Vietnamese Amigo Technologies Joint Stock Company as part of its plans to expand overseas operations.

 The Agency for Survey and Mapping under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has launched a project on building a network of satellite-based global positioning stations in Vietnam.