Surpassing over 1,000 competitors in the qualifications, 120 candidates across the nation joined the final round of the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship – Viettel 2019 on April 7.

An inaugural ceremony for the “Maker Innovation Space” (MIS) in the Can Tho University was held in the Mekong Delta city of the same name on April 5.

Vietnam aims to become the first country in Southeast Asia to put 5G into commercial operation in 2020, according to Japanese daily Nikkei.

The Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) in conjunction with the European Union (EU) held a conference in Hanoi on April 4 to introduce the outcomes of a project strengthening the capacity and efficiency of the VARANS and its technical support provision.

The IAEA-VINATOM Collaborating Centre for Water and Environment was inaugurated in Hanoi on April 4.

Vietnam suffered 620 cyber attacks in the first three months of this year, down by about 50 percent compared with last year’s figure, according to the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Registration for the 2nd I-Star Award for creativity, innovation and business start-ups in HCM City has opened, the competition organisers announced on March 29.

S.hub kids – a space comprising STEM classrooms and spaces for reading, scientific practice, and multimedia entertainment – has draw attention from kids and parents in Ho Chi Minh City.

Four projects of students in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, which had won prizes in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair (ViSEF) in 2019, have been selected to join the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US in May this year.

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications is forecast to be a pillar of the digital economy and Vietnam has been busy making preparations to become one of the first countries to develop its 5G network.

A Vietnamese delegation has actively participated in activities of the 2019 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 2019), which opened in Langkawi island of Malaysia on March 26.

Fifty scientists from 21 countries and territories across the world gathered in Quy Nhon city, the south central province of Binh Dinh on March 25 under the 15th “Meeting Vietnam” (Rencontres du Vietnam) programme.

A workshop was held at Can Tho University on March 25 to discuss the transfer of knowledge and technologies from Europe to Vietnam.

FPT Information System (FPT IS), a subsidiary of Vietnam’s biggest software producer FPT Group, has become the highest-level partner of Dell EMC in storage solution.