Vietnam ICT COMM 2016, an exhibition on products and technologies from the telecommunication, IT and communication sector officially opened in the capital city on July 20.

Vietnam and Japan should make meticulous preparations to set up the Vietnam-Japan Science and Technology Centre under Le Quy Don Technical University.

 Viet Nam's software giant FPT inked a co-operative agreement on global business development with Slovakian Gratex International (GTI) in Ha Noi on Monday.

 The Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and Slovakia's Slavia Capital Services (SCS) signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in Ha Noi on July 17.

The French President has signed a decision to award the title of Knight in the National Order of the French Legion of Honor to Vietnamese French professor Le Kim Ngoc.

The government is determined to license 4G as soon as possible, most likely by the end of September or the beginning of October.

 The Vietnam Institute for International and Public Diplomacy Studies made its debut in Hanoi on July 18.

The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) earned an estimated VND63.15 trillion (US$2.8 billion) in revenue and VND2.16 trillion in profit in the first half of this year, achieving 50.6 per cent of the yearly target.

Vietnam ICT COMM 2016, an exhibition of information and communication technology products, will be held in Hanoi from July 20 to 22.

 Foreign and Vietnamese scientists agreed that Vietnam needs more international research institutes where young scientists can do research and show their creativity.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.

Vietnamese enterprises have registered a total of more than 200,000 .vn domain names, according the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC).

 The 2016 technology and equipment market (Techmart) will be held from September 28 to October 10 at Hanoi Museum.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After spreading nude content, Facebook Live in Vietnam is now being used as a tool to lure gamblers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon Cable Television (SCTV) said it would broadcast television programs using the 4K standard in Vietnam this September, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.

 Vietnamese online hotel booking start-up vntrip.vn on Monday said it got US$3 million from a group of foreign investors led by Fenghe Group and Hancock Revocable Trust.

 Japan professor Takaaki Kajita – Nobel laureate in physics in 2015- arrived in Binh Dinh on July 10 to attend Pascos Conference as part of the 12th ‘Meet Vietnam’ program.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The inter-Asia undersea cable route was broken and it will be repaired from July 12 to 19. During that time, Internet in Vietnam will be affected.

 The Government has issued new regulations for providers of information content on mobile and telecom networks.