Do Ba Duc is a well-known name among the Vietnamese community in Japan. He is a computer science engineer with 12 years of experience who has been working for Japanese leading technology firms.

Vietnam strives to have at least 100,000 digital technology firms by 2030. It is expected that the digital economy would make up 30 percent of GDP by that time.

Vietnamese-made social networks are struggling to regain the Vietnamese advertising market from giants Facebook and YouTube.

Many years ago, programmers cherished the ambition of creating purely Vietnamese games for Vietnamese people, and also bringing them to the world.

Microalgae are being used as materials to reduce environmental pollution and create new-generation biofuels.

Vietnam’s banks started replacing magnetic cards with chip cards some years ago, but the process has been going slowly.

Local telecom carrier Viettel has successfully carried out the first 5G video call using its own gNodeB transceiver, becoming one of the few companies in the world that can manufacture fifth generation devices.

The others are just companies following traditional business models with a bit of innovation.

The government decree on non-cash payment, once promulgated, will pave the way for mobile money to develop in Vietnam.

This is the first time a study on anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of bee venom (apis mellifera) on experimental animals has been carried out in Vietnam.

Preparation for 5G, MNP (mobile number portability) and elimination of ‘trash’ simcards were the most noteworthy events in 2019.

The number of scientists working at research institutes is high, but the volume of research work is modest.

Investors say they have huge amounts of capital in hands and are seeking good technology startups to disburse the money.

The "super internet" 5G revolution is taking place all over the world, including Vietnam.

Applying technology in the retail industry is the next step in its evolution and will enable the offering of new experiences for customers while, conversely, retailers that are sluggish to update and innovate face being left behind. 

With the new policy on choosing investors through bidding, the hot race of developing solar power projects is expected to cool down.

Seeing the growth potential ahead, many tech giants, such as Lenovo, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Huawei, are targeting the Vietnamese market.

More than 300 teams from 55 countries and territories took part in the first round of global cyber-security competition Whitehat Grand Prix 06 in Hanoi on January 4.

Here are the cybersecurity highlights in 2019 as selected by the Vietnamese Network Security (VSEC).

Ly Dinh Quan, director of the Songhan Incubator, one of the first private start-up incubators in Vietnam, talks with reporter Chi Lan about the role of the private sector to support a new generation of start-ups in Vietnam.