Vietnam faces a serious shortage of high-quality workers in information technology (IT), which poses challenges to the country as digitalisation, the fourth scientific revolution, is taking place worldwide. 

 The Prime Minister has issued a plan to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change with five objectives, including reducing green house gas (GHG) emission and adapting to climate change. 

 The 50 leading Vietnamese IT companies reportedly earned revenues of VND28 trillion (US$1.2 billion) last year, accounting for 35 per cent of the sales reported by the software and digital content industry.

 The 9th annual VN Information Security Day will be marked in HCM City on November 17 and in Hanoi in early December amid an increase in the incidence of cyber attacks aimed at large corporations world-wide, including in VN.

 The mass fish deaths reported in Linh Dam Lake in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai District are not related to its water quality, Hanoi Environment Protection Branch officials said.

 The HCMC government on October 26 asked its planning and investment department to strictly “guard the door” by thoroughly evaluating technological solutions of those projects under the city’s seven breakthrough programs.

 Vietnam has identified over 1,080 species of marine fish, including many highly economically valuable creatures such as the skipjack tuna, Japanese horse mackerel, yellowtail scad, largehead hairtail (or beltfish), ariid catfish, among others.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan on October 28 handed a licence to provide 4G services to the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT). 

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2016, the consequences of climate change in Vietnam were evident with 10 typhoons and seven tropical depressions in the East Sea, more than the average of many years ago. 

 Thousands of fish have been found dead in Hanoi’s Linh Dam Lake since October 26.

 Vietnam Web Summit 2016, the biggest annual event on web development in Vietnam, is going to provide an overview of web development in Vietnam as well as introduce to the web development community new technologies.

 MobiFone announced revenue for the first six months of 2016 of VND16.2 trillion ($736.3 million), up 16.6 per cent year-on-year, while after-tax profit was VND2.51 trillion ($112.1 million), down 21 per cent.

 Viet Nam-based online video startup Big Cat Entertainment Co Ltd has sold a major stake to Asia Innovations Group (AIG), a Chinese mobile internet company developing social and entertainment products.

 John Savage, An Wang Professor of Computer Science from the US Brown University, has affirmed that he will make effort to support Vietnam to develop science and technology.

 Ten Vietnamese software companies have opened branches in Japan, Vietnam’s second largest outsourcing market since 2014. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A fisherman in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Monday caught a giant catfish weighing nearly 130kg, 2.2m long in the Serepok River in Buon Don district.

The Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance and the Vietnam Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Alliance have proposed the Government put on hold all the coal-fired thermal power projects. 

 Phu Quoc Island, one of the popular tourist attractions of Vietnam, is facing the danger of becoming overloaded with waste as the island struggles to process half the daily amount produced.

A Vietnam-Japan information and communications technology (ICT) day was held in Hanoi on October 26, attracting representatives of hundreds of IT businesses from both countries.  

 Vietnam’s top 50 IT companies generated a total revenue of nearly VND28 trillion (US$1.25 billion) last year, according to Nguyen Thi Thu Giang, General Secretary of the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association.