The Vietnamese startup scene has picked up the pace in recent years, catching the attention of venture capital funds from the US. Khailee Ng, Southeast Asia managing partner of 500 Startups, spoke about this exciting trend.

 The Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Hanoi will offer the best possible incentives to investors in order to attract and encourage investment and help the park reach its targets, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

 Revenue from Vietnam’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector surged from US$2 billion in 2010 to US$3 billion last year, according to the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (Vinasa).

 Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party’s Committee Dinh La Thang has said an e-government system will enable the city to move forward with administrative reforms.

 Investors, start-up founders and experts gathered in Singapore for a two-day Tech in Asia 2016 conference. Vietnam News talked with some of them to discover why Vietnam is becoming a hot-spot for start-ups.

 Vietnamese enterprises were fined a total of VND8.6 billion (US$385,600) by competent agencies for using pirated software since the Intellectual Property Law came into force in 2006.

 The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications has proposed the city government approve a plan to develop a software and digital content park worth VND24 trillion (US$1.08 billion).

 The standstill $1.2 billion First Solar project in Ho Chi Minh City’s Dong Nam industrial zone will be revived after five years of delays in construction, thanks to finding a new strategic investor.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications held a press conference  announcing the ASEAN Information and Communication Technology Awards 2016 (AICTA).

 GotIt!, an app allowing users, primarily students, to pick the brains of experts for ten minutes and founded by Vietnamese Tran Viet Hung, has raised over $9 million in Series A and Seed funding, it announced on April 29.

Lazada Vietnam has refunded a customer that unknowingly bought a refurbished iPhone 5 from a seller on its platform. Lazada Vietnam also terminated all activities of the seller, The Gioi Online 360.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) will grant licenses for network operators to provide pilot 4G broadband service in Q3 or Q4 at the latest, said a high-ranking official.

  The Hanoi Telecom JSC received the Prime Minister's decision approving its transformation from a Business Corporation Contract (BCC) to become Vietnamobile Telecommunication JSC in Ha Noi on Tuesday. 

On April 25, Le Xuan Long, marketing director of Lazada Vietnam, confessed that the company had sold a refurbished Iphone 5 instead of a new unit to a customer in Hanoi, according to newswire ICTnews.vn.

The National Instituteof Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) today announced itwould officially apply nucleic acid testing (NAT) in the blood screeningprocess.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam had become the target of spy attack of hackers, according to a US intelligence report. Network security is no longer a distant issue of developing countries like Vietnam.

The book entitled "Cyberspace: The Future and Action" by Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang, who is now Vietnam’s President, analyzed the key issues in cyberspace, as well as their impact on national security.

  The Viet Nam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) presented the Sao Khue Awards to 73 information and technology (IT) software products and services in a ceremony in Ha Noi late last week.

 Local inventors have yet to pay attention to applying for intellectual property (IP) rights, which might get them into trouble in the future, an IP official in HCM City said.

 When Singaporean Alvin Koh was running his coffee shop in Ha Noi 's Tay Ho District a few years ago, he noticed that it was nearly impossible to track the number of customers who came back to the shop, in essence, their loyalty to the place.