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 wet season arrived late and ended early in the Mekong Delta this year, with total rainfall being well short of the average in recent times.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Approximately 80 tons of fish died without a clear cause along the central coast of Vietnam, from Ha Tinh to Thua Thien Hue province.

 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.

“As a minister, I am sorry,” Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told local media yesterday as he led an inspection team to take samples of water and sediment in the sea off of Vung Ang in the central Ha Tinh Province.

 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.

Red tide and poisonous chemicals in wastewater have been identified as the two main factors behind the massive fish deaths along the north-central and central coastline, Deputy Minister of National Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan said.

  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. 

 Reports of mercury pollution in the air in Hanoi, which could pose serious health risks, were inaccurate and caused public panic, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment announced on Tuesday, April 2016.

The Prime Minister has approved a technical assistance project on “mainstreaming climate change mitigation into national infrastructure in the areas of energy and transport,” under the framework of the Clean Technology Fund. 

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.

 A highly-poisonous toxin may be behind the abnormal mass fish deaths along the central coast of Vietnam over the last three weeks.

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 Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has warned of more mass fish deaths in the central coastal area of Vietnam due to the impending hot weather.

Authorities in Ha Long are facing troubles as a fleet of nine tugs and three barges built by the troubled state-owned Vinashin have been left unused for years and now pose an environmental threat to Ha Long Bay.

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 Biodiversity Conservation Centre, GreenViet, has launched a communication campaign to protect the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus) in the Son Tra Nature Reserve in this city.