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“I love Banh mi Sai Gon” (I love Saigon bread) programme is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from March 24 to 31.

An animated image of Vietnam’s “banh mi” (bread) was featured on Google’s homepage on March 24.

Tech giant Google is looking to open its first data center in Indonesia this year to enable the company to take the advantage of the growing demand for cloud computing services in the country, one of company’s senior executives has said.

Google and Microsoft are accelerating efforts to shift production from China to Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, amid the worsening novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.

An image of artists performing ca tru (ceremonial singing) was featured on Google’s homepage on February 23, which was the ca tru founders commemoration day.

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) said that Google has banned political advertising in Singapore several months ahead of the general election in the Southeast Asian country.​

Southeast Asia’s internet economy is forecast to reach 300 billion USD by 2025 as millions of people in the region take up online shopping and embrace ride-share food delivery, an industry report said on October 3.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Green Annamites Project has recently equipped the central province of Thua Thien-Hue with a forest management system.

Indonesia is preparing a bill that will make tech firms such as Google and Amazon pay value added tax (VAT), according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

About 500,000 employees of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will gain access to digital technology under a strategic cooperation agreement between Google and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Nguyen Van Binh, Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, received CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Philippe Le Houérou, who is also Vice President of the World Bank, in Hanoi on August 15.

Minister of Public Security To Lam has affirmed that the ministry always welcomes and facillitates foreign enterprises, individuals and organisations, including Google, to do long-term business in Vietnam.

The image of Hoi An’s colorful lantern festival has appeared on the Google Doodle of the popular search page.

As a pioneering airline to cooperate with Google for Vietnam’s tourism promotion programme, Vietjet has announced a super promotion by offering 1,500,000 tickets priced only from 0 VND, applied to all international and domestic routes.

Vietnam’s ancient town of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam was honoured by Google Doodles for the first time as a historic town that’s remained largely unchanged for several centuries.

An image of Hoi An ancient town in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam with symbols of Chua Cau (Bridge Pagoda) and colourful lanterns was featured on Google’s homepage on July 16.

According to the recently approved amended Law on Tax Management, companies that have not opened their representative offices in Vietnam such as Google, YouTube and Facebook are obliged to pay taxes.

Thailand's e-commerce market value is expected to surge to 13 billion USD by 2025 from 3 billion USD in 2018 on the back of strong global demand for Thai products.

Google has teamed up with Quang Binh to promote tourism in the central coastal province.

The ‘Vietnam Online Tourism Day’ took place in Hanoi on June 26, gathering more than 600 domestic and foreign participants.