A company collected over VND230 billion (over $10 million) through service message charges from 94,000 mobile service users in Vietnam over two years, but the customers did not know about it.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed that a start-up ecosystem seminar is an opportunity for the Vietnamese Government and Ha Noi to learn from Israel, a successful start-up nation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large-spotted civet species recently discovered in the Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Hue city was previously considered to be extinct in Vietnam and China by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

 PCCW Media Group from Hong Kong is ramping up its presence in the region with the launch of the MOOV music app on September 19 in Hanoi, in partnership with telecommunications services provider Vietnamobile.

Japanese firms NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have reached an agreement to research and develop an ASNARO-2 satellite for Vietnam.  

 Local Internet providers have said access to international services, including Youtube and Facebook, is choppy as the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) undersea fiber optic cable line is suspended for scheduled maintenance.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan and Lao Minister of Post and Telecommunications Thansamay Kommasith have agreed to strengthen future partnership in information security and human resources development. 

The time has come for threat intelligence sharing between financial institutions in Vietnam and worldwide, said Mr. Robert Trong Tran, Director of Cyber Security Services, PwC Vietnam.

 The Danang authorities hesitate to transfer Danang IT Park to Trung Nam Land over doubts of the developer’s financial capacity.

 The legal framework on startups doesn’t bear too many shortcomings as the Law on Enterprises is relatively similar to American law. The shortcomings mostly come from administrative procedures and policies from ministries.

 Vietnamobile is in the process of expanding its 3G coverage to all 63 cities and provinces from the current 12.

 Customers should stop using Samsung Galaxy Note 7 immediately, said the Vietnam Competition Authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese are willing to pay $100/day to hire someone to line up for three nights at the iPhone 7 points of sale in Singapore to purchase the first iPhone 7 products. 

Vietnam earned another four awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research, a U.S. Government program to fund scientific research in developing countries.

At a meeting between Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam and CIO of Asian Infrastructure Group under J.P. Morgan Institutional Asset Management, Tam congratulated J.P. Morgan on picking Gtel Mobile for cooperation in Vietnam.

Mr. Dang Tung Son, Deputy General Director of CMC Telecom, talks about the current state of cyber security in Vietnam.

 The Vietnam Space Technology Museum inside the Space Technology Centre, located in Hanoi’s Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, is scheduled to open to the public in late 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - Becamex ITC has registered to invest in a software park in Hanoi for VND24 trillion ($1.1 billion).

 The Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics and the French Research Institute for Development have signed a science-technology cooperation agreement during French President Francois Hollande’s State visit from September 5-7. 

 The French software company Linagora and the Hanel DTT joint-venture will support the northern province of Quang Ninh in developing an e-government ( Egov) and training human resources.