A programme to select the top 50 IT firms in Vietnam in 2016 has been officially kicked off by VINASA (Vietnam Software and IT Service Association). 

 The degradation of soil in the Central Highlands has increased, impacting production and ethnic minority groups, according to Nguyen Dinh Ky, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Geography Association.

 HCM City plans to reduce burying of solid wastes and improve waste treatment technologies by 2030, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has said.

 Dong Nai province’s administration has confirmed Chin Well Fasteners (Vietnam) Co. Ltd, a wholly foreign owned company, illegally released wastewater into the environment and buried a big volume of waste mud in its campus. 

Online marketing in Viet Nam is entering a period of rapid development, but this development continues to face obstacles, including consumer confidence, payments and online marketing, according to a report.

 Google Map Maker Vietnam representative Le Bach has asked Pokemon Go players to stop creating virtual places in Google maps to catch Pokemon, Youth online newspaper reported.

Twenty sunda pangolins were released back to the forest on August 10 by the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program, a collaboration between Save Vietnam's Wildlife and the Cuc Phuong National Park.. 

Residents of Hanoi will be able to watch the Perseid meteor shower from 1 to 2am on Friday, with the number of meteor sightings expected to double, compared to last year.

 Ensuring cyber and information security is an urgent task as the cyber environment is increasingly exploited for such bad activities as swindling or inciting sabotage schemes against the Party and the State, said Deputy Prime Truong Hoa Binh.

VietNamNet Bridge - Although they have not yet released an official announcement, Internet service providers said that it would take at least 10 days from now to finish the repair of the AAG submarine cable route.

Mobile operator Movitel, a joint venture between Vietnamese company Viettel and Mozambique’s SPI, has given learning assistance software M-Escola to high schools in Mozambique.

 Vietnam should place importance on the panorama of investment in climate change in the country while building a plan on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

 Forty-eight rare animals have been released into the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh, from the beginning of this year. 

 Vietnam’s technology group Bkav warned on August 8 that the malware that recently attacked the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is also hidden in the websites of government agencies, corporations, banks, research institutes and universities.

 The recent hacking accident at national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines rang the alarm for the local banking system, as many of its members have been keeping expenditure to modernise their Core Banking system to a minimum.

 The People’s Police Academy has launched the Vietnamese version of a manual by an international counter-trafficking organisation to help officials fight the black market trade in endangered wild animals.

 The long awaited Pokemon Go is officially launched in Vietnam on August 6.

Deputy Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep underlined the necessity to accurately investigate information related to the damage caused by the recent environmental incident in Ha Tinh.

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), under the information and communications ministry, on August 4, issued a warning about three domains containing malicious codes.

The servers for Pokemon Go in Vietnam are being installed. Perhaps in a few days, according to MMOserverstatus.com, Vietnamese gamers will be able to officially play the game, which has become wildly popular worldwide.