Evaluating four proposals for the program support for developing SMEs on IT (24/01/2010)

On the day of October 27th, 2009, the Department of Science and Technology held a Council to appraise projects of four companies participating in the program supporting enterprises in  period of the year 2009-2010 on Information Technology field.

Ba Ria - Vung Tau’s engineer received 3rd prize of VIFOTEC10 (21/01/2010)

On 19 January, engineer Vu Viet Chien, Director of HT Industry Joint Stock Company (Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone) received the 3rd prize of the 10th Vietnam Scientific & Technological Creative Prize (VIFOTEC 10) with the topic "Fabrication of Oil Platforms and TCM – Total Construction Management”. This is the only one of Ba Ria - Vung Tau was awarded this time.

Vietnam ranks second in Southeast Asia for national domain names (19/01/2010)

The Vietnam Internet Centre (VNNIC) on January 13 announced reaching its 100,000 .vn national domain name - ranking second after Singapore in Southeast Asia for the number of national domain names.

Ports in Vietnam and Economic Development (14/01/2010)

It will be a while until Vietnamese ports could stand with others in the region. Until then, Vietnam’s government and local authorities will have to rely on many other incentives to attract foreign investors and global traders. Below are some key seaports and their development projects until 2010.

Industrial production: Restore growth (13/01/2010)

One year influenced by the world economic crisis has passed. Closing difficulties and challenges, industrial enterprises are welcoming a new year with the ebullient activities again.

Training course on Environmental Information organized in Hanoi (13/01/2010)

On November 24, 2009, Vietnam INFOTERRA Center, under the National Center for Scientific and Technological Information, Ministry of Science and Technology opened the 4-Day Training Course on environmental information 2009 for Vietnam INFOTERRA Network’s Members in Hanoi Capital.

Decree sets nuclear safety fine levels (13/01/2010)

A new decree regulates that the highest monetary administrative punishment in the field of nuclear energy could reach up to VND100 million (US$5,400), according to the Ministry of Science and Technology’s General Inspector Tran Minh Dung.

Viettel Telecom aims to manufacture mobile devices (13/01/2010)

HCMC – Viettel Telecom on Thursday announced it had set up a joint venture with Taiwan-based network equipment maker Accton Technology to develop carrier-grade networking equipment targeting the local telecom and customer premise equipment (CPE) segments.
The deal was signed on Wednesday, said a source from the company, adding the deal would pave the way for Viettel to develop its hardware market segment.

VN websites face hacker onslaught (12/01/2010)

As many as 1,037 websites were attacked by hackers in Viet Nam in 2009, while 461 and 342 websites were hacked in 2008 and 2007 respectively.

Foreign social networks on the way out (11/01/2010)

This year Vietnam will build its own social network to gradually replace foreign social networks like Yahoo and Google, stated Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop at a meeting in HCM City on January 9.