China’s promised water discharges from its Jinghong Hydropower Station to the lower reaches of the Mekong River from March 15-April 10 are highly anticipated by local authorities and people in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta localities.

M_Service JSC, the operator of mobile e-wallet MoMo, on March 17 announced it has received an investment worth $28 million from Standard Chartered Private Equity and the global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.

VietNamNet Bridge - A new drug for cancer treatment produced by Vietnam at the price which is equivalent to one third of the similar one processed by the US will be available soon. The medicine has been successfully tested on animals in laboratory.

 The Nature Conservation Zone in the southern province of Dong Nai confirmed the death of another bull yesterday.

  Nearly 11,000 ha of natural forest which was allocated to local people in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak has suffered serious deforestation, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Most Vietnamese people between the age of 18 and 35 use smartphones and their time for surfing internet is three times more than that of the people in other Southeast Asian countries.

 The Saigon Tech Startup Fest 2016 - the first large-scale tech startup festival in Vietnam, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on March 12, attracting thousands of people, particularly students in the field of information technology. 

  Launch of World Bank report hears Vietnam has major potential for development of digital technology.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.

 The Vietnamese government is actively implementing the Programme of Action to promote the application and development of information technology to meet the requirements of sustainable development and international integration.

 The HCM City Computer Association has signed a cooperation agreement with the municipal Department of Information and Communications to improve development of the city’s information technology sector.

About 300 scientists and information technology experts will participate in the eighth Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) in Da Nang from March 14 to 16.

  Serious flaw discovered in OpenSSL that affects the security of more than 11 million websites around the world.

 An education mobile application developed by two Vietnamese overcame 1,200 technology companies globally to win first place at the SXSWedu in Austin, Texas, USA, which concluded on Thursday.

 Relevant agencies are applying themselves to preserving and optimising genetic resources in Vietnam, one of the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world.

 Wild animals are being kept in abject conditions in a private zoo in the southern province of Long An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On March 9, a partial eclipse was observed in Ho Chi Minh City. In Hanoi, astronomy fans could not see the wonderful natural phenomenon because of dense clouds.

Vietnam’s game programming technology is developing robustly as many local game studios want to go beyond the international game market. The race in the computer game programming industry in Vietnam is hotter than ever.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In the future, the Mekong Delta will suffer increasingly severe impact from climate change. Drought, saltwater intrusion, lack of sediment and severe flooding in the rainy season will all occur, scientists said.

 Lumitel, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s military-run telecommunications group Viettel in Burundi, has become the first 4G LTE service provider in the African country.