Google has recently announced a programme helping Vietnamese startups go global.

 Hanoi stood second in Southeast Asia in terms of air pollution just behind Jakarta, according to a 2018 World Air Quality Report jointly conducted by Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on a new national public service portal, with people and businesses the centre of these services. 

 Three black bears kept in Bien Hoa city of the southern province of Dong Nai were handed over to a wildlife conservation centre on March 12. 

 Developing renewable energy is one of the priorities of Vietnam to gradually reduce the dependence on traditional forms of power generation in order to protect the environment.

As of March 10, a total of 109,561 subscribers successfully switched between four mobile carriers of Vinaphone, Viettel, Mobile and Vietnamobile while retaining their mobile numbers via the mobile number portability service.

 Two Asian black bears which were kept in a local house in Thuan An town of the southern province of Binh Duong were handed over to competent agencies on March 11.

Cisco System, an American multinational technology conglomerate, predicts that in 2020 there will be 50 billion devices connected with one another via the Internet, namely Internet of Things (IoT).

 Vietnam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

A campaign named “Day to clean plastic waste 2019” was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 9 to raise public awareness and call for practical actions to protect the environment. 

 Although the dry season has yet to reach its peak, many reservoirs in the Central Highlands have recorded seriously receded water levels, leading to water scarcity for agriculture.

 Figures show that online shopping has already reached 60 per cent of the Vietnamese population in 2019 so far, dominated by only a handful of e-commerce websites and social media pages. 

 FPT’s Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Nguyen Van Khoa, Executive Vice President of the FPT Corporation and CEO of FPT Information System (FPT IS), as the new CEO of the FPT Corporation.

 Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung directed the Viet Nam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) and network operators to stop the supply of pre-activated SIM cards.

 Viet Nam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

 Scientists have found over a dozen Guar or Indian Bison in the central province of Quang Binh at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park through photographic traps.

 Vietnam has seen decreases in the number of violation cases related to forest protection and development, as well as the area of forest lost by deforestation.

 A large area of forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been burnt down for farming.

 Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) jointly launched a scientific and technological cooperation program for the period of 2020-2022.

 An incident with Youtube has caused shares of Vietnam’s leading entertainment group Yeah1 to plunge for five consecutive trading sessions through this morning, according to stock exchange data.