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The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the SME Support Japan organisation introduced J-GoodTech, a Japanese online business matching platform, to Vietnamese enterprises on June 19.

ASEAN nations, including Vietnam, are emerging as a destination of choice for many US and Japanese manufacturers who are looking to shift their production bases away from China following the US-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Construction on Vietnam's the largest data centre, owned by FPT Telecom, has started at the Hi-Tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City.

Close to 10,500 people have found a job through a non-profit campaign held in Hanoi for students and young people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese startups active on the ELSA Speak learning platform will get an aid package worth 200,000 USD to improve their English proficiency under a cooperation deal.

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.

Teachers at schools, colleges and universities in Ho Chi Minh City are applying a wide range of teaching methods to help their students learn online while the schools are closed until February 9 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The first foreign visitors of the traditional Lunar New Year arrived in Ha Long city in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on January 25.

Three teachers who won the Education Exchange 2020 organised by the Department of Information and Technology under the Ministry of Education and Training and Microsoft Vietnam will participate in the 6th annual Education Exchange in Sydney on March 23-26, the organising board has announced.

With increasing use of technology, Vietnam is facing risks in terms of cybersecurity, threatening national security, said Nguyen Minh Chinh, Director General of the Cyber Security and High-tech Crime Prevention Department under the Ministry of Public Security.

The private sector in Vietnam should receive support to become a pillar of the national economy, said Nguyen Thi Nga, Chairwoman of BRG Group.

After announcing plans to expand its presence in Singapore, co-working space provider WeWork set to open two new locations in Vietnam before the end of the year.

After 13 years of joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Vietnam has become a part of the global economy with total export and import turnover of nearly 480 billion USD, nearly double its GDP.

The project for green growth promotion in Ha Long Bay area of the northeastern province of Quang Ninh has yielded some outcomes, according to a representative from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The northeastern province of Quang Ninh is striving to promote green growth at its world natural heritage site Ha Long Bay, according to a local official.

The Thai Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has drafted the country’s first artificial intelligence (AI) ethics guidelines.

A number of organisations in Ho Chi Minh City have provided assistance and consultancy for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) while banks have offered them loans on easy terms but they do not make use of either consultancy or loans, heard a conference in the city on October 3.

Ha Long city in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh is striving to develop sustainable tourism, especially promoting the world natural heritage site of Ha Long Bay.

Experts have given recommendations to the central city of Da Nang to become a smart city in the near future.

The acceleration of a digital economy is one of the Vietnamese government’s focuses to foster economic restructuring in combination with renewing the growth model and growth quality.