Vietnam needs 1 million workers in information technology and digital content creation but now there are only 300,000 people in this field, pointing to a need to improve the quality of education and tailor it to the need of companies.

 A big gap between the demand and supply for senior developers with management skills drove up the average salary.

Vietnam is willing join hands with the international community in efforts to protect the marine environment while exploiting economic resources in a reasonable and effective manner.

The millennium-year-old "lim" tree in Bac Giang province.

 The broadcasting of analogue terrestrial television will be ceased in several northern and southern localities before July 1.

CEO of Cisco Vietnam Luong Thi Le Thuy talked about her experience leading Cisco Vietnam as well as Cisco’s role in helping Vietnamese companies and the government become more competitive as the world undergoes a digital transformation.

With Apple’s recent decision to produce iPhones in India, and with its rumoured plans in Vietnam seeing no news/mention at all, Vietnam may have to reconsider its business environment and incentives for investors in electronics manufacturing.

 The paucity of skilled IT (information technology) workers in the country was highlighted as the FPT Corporation opened its second software village, F-Ville 2, in Ha Noi on February 13.

 Authorities in the central province of Quang Nam have requested agencies to collect and inspect oil clumps that have soiled local beaches over the past week.

 Residents in Ky Anh Town in central Ha Tinh Province have found dead fish floating in the local Quyen River since last week.

An alarm is sounded these days when the threat of an alien creature farmed in the Mekong Delta that may do harm to local agriculture makes headlines in local media. 

 CMC Telecom has begun construction of its 2,000km cable express system through Viet Nam.

 It appears that Vietnam is best placed to become Southeast Asia’s Silicon Valley while most members of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) have ambitions of developing competitive technology sectors, “Asia Correspondent” said in a recent article.

 Overseas Vietnamese play an important role in developing Vietnam’s economy by contributing their talent and intelligence in the science and technology field, a deputy minister of Science and Technology said recently in HCM City.

 Leading telecom service providers Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone are scrambling to put up base transceiver stations and pilot 4G services to be ready to officially offer them this quarter.

 The application of science and technology will be one of the strategic solutions for restructuring the industry and trade sector as well as for its sustainable development.

 The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has approved a biological diversity conservation plan with total capital worth 1.3 trillion VND (57.3 million USD).

 Viet Nam was named the nation facing the second-highest level of cyber security risk in Asia Pacific markets by a Microsoft Asia report on Thursday.

  An agriculture official reiterated that farming crawfish in Vietnam is banned after a company in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap was found to be raising the animal.

 Vietnam set a target to increase its forest coverage to 41.45 percent to raise the timber export value to over 7.5 billion USD by 2020, said Ha Cong Tuan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.