The national qualifying round of the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) in Thai Nguyen province opened on April 24.

VietNamNet Bridge - Aircraft tubeless tire is one of six works awarded with first prize at the 13th National Technical Innovation Competition. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 60 percent startups have been using information technology (IT) in their business. Small and medium enterprises now tend to use IT to create their competitiveness, but the IT application index still remains modest.

 Thousands of fish along the coast from the central provinces of Ha Tinh to Thua Thien-Hue’s have died en mass and the finger of blame is being pointed at the Vung Ang Industrial Zone.

 Viet Nam is targeting moving to digital terrestrial Television broadcasting from analog by 2020 in the entire country as per the roadmap on development of digitalisation of television.

 A ceremony was held on April 22 to inaugurate the upgrade work at the Hanoi Radiation Centre under the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After changing the screen at a mobile repair shop, an iPhone 6 of an user in the central province of Quang Nam suddenly exploded while charging.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and German experts on April 21 began processing the body of Hoan Kiem turtle, using the plastination technique.

 The Hanoi People's Committee agreed to build a software and digital content park in Dong Anh District in northern Ha Noi.

 IBM Vietnam and CMC Telecommunication Infrastructure JSC (CMC Telecom) signed a co-operation agreement on providing outsourced managed security services on April 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists from the Geophysics Institute, an arm of the Vietnam Science & Technology Academy, have reassured the public that the recent earthquakes in Bac Tra My district of Quang Nam province were ‘anticipated’.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Every year, erosion sewers out500 hectares of land in the Mekong Delta and leaves local people living in fear.

 An international conference on the problems of digital television broadcasting was held on April 21 in the central coastal city of Da Nang.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Exchange rate fluctuations and increased expenses have caused losses for Viettel Global in Africa.

 A century-old tree in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has been recognised as a Vietnamese Heritage Tree by the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE). 

 Scientists and environmentalists across the country have raised their voice to strongly oppose the construction of the Drang Phok Hydropower Plant at the end of this year in the Central Highlands Dak Lak Province’s Krong Na Commune.

In the past few days, many provinces in the central region of Vietnam have reported an abnormal phenomenon – large amounts of fish dying along the coast. The authorities have recommended that locals not eat the dead fish.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Oppo Vietnam and FPT Trading are now vying for the right to distribute Oppo smartphones in the Vietnamese market.

 The Festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will be organised in Hanoi on May 14-15, announced a press conference in the capital on April 20.

 The People’s Committee of Khanh Hoa Province is considering the construction of a marine eco-reserve resort in a protected marine reserve.