The Steering Committee for Digitising Television Plans will stop transmitting to all analogue televisions (TVs) in Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Can Tho, and HCM City starting on August 15.

 Vietnam’s scientific research capabilities were introduced at a seminar held in Osaka city, Japan on April 5, which attracted over 50 professors and lecturers from universities and research institutes in Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto.

At the Security World 2016, Keshav Dhakad, regional director of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) for the Asia region talked about Microsoft’s role of trusted advisor in the security worldwide.

 The central province of Quang Ngai is working to have Ly Son island, Binh Chau commune’s coastal area, and their vicinity included in the UNESCO list of global geoparks.

 E-government in Vietnam remains weak and less developed than in other regional countries though it is vital to the nation’s international integration process, experts told a seminar in Hanoi on March 30.

Vietnam hopes to see 3G and 4G networks covering 95 per cent of residential homes by 2020, according to Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam.

 Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang on March 31 had a working session on information technology cooperation with representatives from the US Microsoft Corporation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many candidates have applied for iPhone distribution manager position, according to the company in charge of recruiting staff for Apple Vietnam.

 Fifty-six information and technology (IT) products and 17 IT services, will receive the 2016 Sao Khue Award, according to the Viet Nam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA).

 Viet Nam is a main target for hackers in the network environment, said Nguyen Van Thinh, deputy head of the Department of Cyber Security under the Ministry of Public Security, at the Security World 2016 conference on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Saigon man has bought an SIM card from the owner of a gold shop in the northern province of Thai Binh at the cost of up to VND9.9 billion (nearly $500,000).

Dr. Tran Dinh Phong from Hanoi has published his research in the prestigious journal Nature Materials, with the findings of the structure and mechanism of action of a catalyst that can replace platinum,an expensive material.

 Users of Apple iPhones and iPads can now subscribe to the 4G LTE service of military-run telecom firm Viettel in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.

 The Prime Minister has approved the establishment of the Hanoi Software Technology Park as a concentrated information technology (IT) one in Long Bien district.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese group Viettel has received a license to develop the fourth mobile network in Myanmar, after creating a joint venture with a number of local businesses.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hung and Dr. Nguyen Thuc Quyen have been honored by the Humboldt Foundation for their outstanding contributions.

 Vietnam’s great potential for software and digital technology development will help it attract many foreign investors into this industry.

 Network provider MobiFone is planning to pilot 4G services next month, according to local media.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has asked telecom providers and relevant agencies to work with police to inspect and enforce strict punishment on those who sell illegal SIM cards.

MobiFone’s commercial testing of its 4G mobile internet service (4G services) is slower than Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group(VNPT)-Vinaphone’s and Viettel’s.