The southern province of Hau Giang plans to build a 5,000ha Long My High-tech Agriculture Zone, which will be the largest of its kind in the country to date.
The VND1.38 trillion (US$73 million) project is expected to be submitted to the Government for approval late this year.
Tech-savvy criminals are using information technology to commit serious crimes, causing great loss to businesses, especially banks, experts told a forum on high-tech crime held in HCM City on July 25.
Vu Quoc Khanh, director of the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) categorised high-tech criminals into two groups.
One group attacks [...]
Lenovo yesterday chose CMC Distribution as its new local distributor.
The partnership aims to expand Lenovo’s distribution network as well as its market share in Viet Nam.
CMC Distribution is one of three largest distributors in the computer industry. It works with HP, Acer, Sony, Sony Ericsson Toshiba, Emerson Network Power and 3Com.
FPT Group (coded FPT) has earned 1.087 trillion dong of profit after tax in the first half of 2010, a year-on-year increase of 38.1 percent and equalling to over 131 percent of the plan. Meanwhile, the company’s H1 revenue was posted at 9.978 trillion dong, up 21.3 percent against the same period of last year.
In [...]
The US-headquartered International Data Group, or IDG, plans to create two venture-capital funds that will invest in the IT sector by 2012, according to its chief.
Founder and chairman Patrick J McGovern told the media while attending a recent press briefing on an IT, telecommunication, and electronics exhibition in Ha Noi that they would have a [...]
More than 200 businesses from 20 countries will showcase their latest technologies and equipment related to professional audio, lighting, audio visual, broadcast, system integration and entertainment technology at an international exhibition (PALME) opening in Ho Chi Minh City on July 22.
The three-day exhibition, the first of its kind ever held in Vietnam, is targeted at [...]
FPT Telecom has launched MegaSave, a new internet service package, to provide to its customers nationwide, allowing each subscriber to access the internet for no more than VND250,000 (US$13.5) per month. The service provides a transmission rate of 3Mps.
“The launch is a response to the Government’s policy of popularising the internet to all people,” said [...]
Dong Nai Province has unveiled a project to build a centre for biotechnology applications with an aim to bolster high-tech development and attract $500 million investment in the next ten years.
The province will spend around one trillion dong in developing infrastructure for the centre covering 208 hectares in Cam My District in the first stage, [...]
The management of websites and online social net-works will be governed by Circular No 14/2010/TT-BBTTT, issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications on June 29.
Under the new regulation, websites that introduce products, services, or business lines of an enterprise or organisation and do not entail an exchange of information will not be required to [...]
The Government issued Decree No 80/2010/ND-CP on July 14, regulating investment and co-operation with foreign partners in the area of science and technology.
The decree covers co-operation with foreign partners in science and technology organisations, research and training. It requires co-operation agreements in science and technology area to be in the form of a written agreement [...]
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