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To tackle rampant food safety issues in Vietnam, a national information database with real-time updates will be set up, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

The building of e-government was among the hot topics raised by National Assembly deputies for Cabinet members during the question-and-answer session on October 31 as part of their ongoing sixth session.

Vietnam has set up a fully integrated forestry information database under a project funded by the Finnish Government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a recent conference in Hanoi.

Keeping medical records in an electronic database brings benefits to citizens and healthcare facilities, experts have concluded thanks to a pilot project launched in June.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will host the Technology Demonstration and Connection Conference 2018 (TechDemo) from October 3 to October 5.

A seminar discussing the opportunities, challenges and current trends of the healthcare system in ASEAN took place in Hanoi on September 13 as part of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) 2018.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the firm VnTrip recently signed an agreement on building a database of 360 degree pictures of tourism destinations.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) hosted the ASEAN CERTs Incident Drill – ACID 2018 in Hanoi on September 5, focusing on improving the capacity of participating countries in dealing with cyber crimes caused by coin mining viruses.

The northern province of Bac Giang has made tremendous efforts to attract investment to urban development and the building of residential areas in the province, Deputy Director of the provincial Construction Department Vi Thanh Quyen has said.

Many transport enterprises may have to spend trillions of VND to replace their current black box recording devices with new ones if draft regulations on transport trading are approved.

The Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai province of northern Thailand, where 12 young footballers and their coach were trapped inside from June 23 before they were all safely brought out on July 10, will be turned into a museum to showcase the rescue.

The national digital vaccination database currently covers 11,000 immunisation locations in local health centres and hospitals across the country.

Up-to-date information on forest coverage, forest fires, and silviculture are fully integrated in the Management Information System for Forest Sector in Vietnam (FORMIS) software, which is useful for the State management and the building of forestry strategy.

NA deputies, during the fifth session of the 14th-tenure National Assembly on May 25, expressed their concern about outstanding problems in the agricultural sector, such as farm produce oversupply and price drop, and support policies for farmers.

Thailand is preparing to create a database on biodiversity for effective natural resources management and income generation.

The Digital Vietnamese knowledge system, an ambitious Government funded open database similar to Wikipedia, now boasts more than 10,000 articles, alongside 3.5 million question and answers following its launch in January.

The e-Government would help fight corruption, push administrative reform and improve investment environment, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on May 9 launched a call centre for health consultancy and disease prevention.

The Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Vietnam have launched the 2018 Labour Research Contest with the topic of “Research for exploring Industrial Relations practices and its reflection toward better policies”.

The Thai Ministry of Justice has held a conference to discuss creating a crime database as a precursor to an ASEAN+3 information cache for crime analysis.