The Vietnamese e-commerce market is expected to surge in the next five years, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which has set an online sales target of US$10 billion or 5 per cent of total retail sales.

 After a long time of saturation, the Vietnam telecommunication market seems to be bustling once again thanks to the opportunities created by fourth generation (4G) technology.

 Vietnam remains a largely underdeveloped retail ecommerce market, with digital commerce accounting for only a small fraction of the country’s total retail sales, said experts at a recent conference in Hanoi.

 Vietnamese OTT application for mobile devices Zalo has reached initial success in Myanmar with 2 million users only after four months of operation.

 ASEAN region saw the highest decentralisation of information technology (IT) in the world in the last three years, according to VMware's The State of the Cloud 2016 research.

 Human resource development is the key to enhancing the country's economic development, social stability and international integration, Nguyen Thanh Hung, deputy minister of Information and Communications, said on November 3.

 The Institute for Cyber Security Research and Training (CSO) has launched a training system for cybersecurity simulations, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications on November 1 announced the results of its actual test of 3G speed in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - If you only see one astronomical event this year, make it the November super moon, when the Moon will be the closest to Earth it’s been since January 1948.

 VNPT-VinaPhone officially launched 4G services on the 1800MHz band at a ceremony in Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang province on November 3, becoming the first 4G services provider in Vietnam.

 Viettel has said it is ready to set up 4G infrastructure nation-wide and will do so soon after getting a licence to provide 4G services.

 Fifty-four per cent of Vietnamese people, or 52 million, are already online; the fifth-largest online population in Asia-Pacific behind China, India, Japan and Indonesia.

 New applications of stem cell and gene technologies as well as nanotechnology will be the focus of HCM City’s bio-tech programme to 2020, the deputy head of the city’s Department of Sciences and Technology has said.

 Vietnamese businesses’ spending on environmental protection remains modest compared to their total investment and operation expenses, according to a survey released on November 2. 

 FPT Japan is Viet Nam's first company to earn US$100 million from the Japanese market in the first 10 months of this year, according to an announcement made yesterday by FPT corporation.

 Vietnam faces a serious shortage of high-quality workers in information technology (IT), which poses challenges to the country as digitalisation, the fourth scientific revolution, is taking place worldwide. 

 The 50 leading Vietnamese IT companies reportedly earned revenues of VND28 trillion (US$1.2 billion) last year, accounting for 35 per cent of the sales reported by the software and digital content industry.

 The 9th annual VN Information Security Day will be marked in HCM City on November 17 and in Hanoi in early December amid an increase in the incidence of cyber attacks aimed at large corporations world-wide, including in VN.

 The HCMC government on October 26 asked its planning and investment department to strictly “guard the door” by thoroughly evaluating technological solutions of those projects under the city’s seven breakthrough programs.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan on October 28 handed a licence to provide 4G services to the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT).