Vietnam prepares to go digital (08/07/2013)
The Ministry of Information and Communications says it will issue a set of digital TV standards in preparation for the digitalisation of TV broadcasting in Vietnam.
New water hyacinth cutting machine to clear canals in HCMC (07/07/2013)
A group of scientists from Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City have manufactured an automatic water hyacinth cutting machine that they hope will help in clearing 700 kilometers of canals in Ho Chi Minh City that are now clogged with the weed.
Google launches Vietnam search tools (05/07/2013)
Google Inc announced on July 2 the launch of three new search tools in Vietnamese - Knowledge Graph, Voice search on Android and Google handwrite.
Vietnam to have unmanned military aircraft (05/07/2013)
Vietnamese researchers are working hard in order to launch the first unmanned aircraft for military purposes in Vietnam later this year.
Software outsourcing posts high growth (03/07/2013)
The local software outsourcing industry has posted strong growth this year, contradictory to the slackened performance of local hardware makers and retailers, an industry source said.
Pollution worsens in Dong Nai River (03/07/2013)
Pollution in the Dong Nai River, mostly from thousands of factories, continues to affect the water supply to residents and farmland in HCM City and surrounding provinces.
The river supplies water for about 12 million people and about 1.8 million hectares of cultivated land around HCM City and 11 surrounding provinces
Nation at high risk of cyber attacks (29/06/2013)
Vietnam, along with the US, India and Germany, have the greatest number of Internet users affected by phishing attacks, with the total number doubling since last year, computer security company Kaspersky Lab says.
Vietnam has highest phishing rate in the world (26/06/2013)
In the latest survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab, in 2012, 37.3 million Internet users worldwide became victims of phishing. Vietnam is among the countries with the highest number of phishing victims.
58% of Vietnamese use Internet: Nielsen (25/06/2013)
There are up to 58% of Vietnamese using the Internet with an average using duration of 16 hours per week, according to a survey of Nielsen Vietnam on Internet use in four recent weeks.
ICT Summit 2013 to open tomorrow (20/06/2013)
PM Nguyen Tan Dung and former Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama will be the special guests of the Viet Nam ICT Summit 2013, scheduled to open in Ha Noi on June 20.
