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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.

Vietnam pledges coordination with and hopes to receive further support from the World Bank (WB) and other partners to improve food hygiene and safety, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at an online conference held in Hanoi on April 18.

A smart healthcare system that exploits Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) has been set up by the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of health examinations and medical treatment.

A national land database will be completed in 2020 and information on land from the smallest administrative unit to the central level would be available.

The satellite data sharing system, Vietnam Data Cube, has been introduced in the country, promising a satellite image database for Vietnamese earth observation satellite data users.

To lay the foundation for turning into a smart city, Ho Chi Minh City continues to encourage the use of information technology in administration with a focus on e-governance.

Vietnam’s two main cities have made the list of top 10 cities for budget-conscious backpackers in Southeast Asia for 2018 drawn up by Numbeo.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project that would build a national database of waste resources, helping authorised agencies better control the discharge of waste nationwide.

A lack of funding is a major problem in implementing the master plan on simplifying administrative procedures, citizenship papers and the population management database for 2013-2020.

After Vietnam received a “yellow-card” from the European Commission, Thanh Hoa province is rushing off its feet to minimise illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in the locality.

A website providing a database on war martyrs and their graves will be launched on December 22, the 73rd founding day of the Vietnam People’s Army, a unit of the Ministry of Information and Communications announced on December 12.

A conference has been held in central Thanh Hoa province to review the update of the national fisheries database (Vnfishbase) so as to expand the system to 20 remaining coastal provinces.

The Ministry of Public Security is working on a national database that will store and supply “basic” and accurate information about citizens via their personal ID numbers.

Deputies at the 14th National Assembly discussed a resolution on special mechanisms and policies for HCM City’s development during their November 20 sitting as part of the ongoing NA’s fourth session.

The Government has decided to abolish the decades-old household registration book system.

A database to store, standardise and manage the basic information of all Vietnamese citizens will be put in use by early 2019, the Ministry of Public Security said, with the aim of simplifying administrative procedures.

An inaccurate labour database and poor forecasting is exacerbating the nation’s unemployment problem, officials admitted at a conference on Ocotber 26.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan on the establishment of a national natural resources and environmental monitoring database for 2017-2022.

Vietnam wants to learn from Hungary’s experience in developing information-technology (IT) policies in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, said Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan.

The difficulties involved in developing smart cities and possible solutions were on the agenda of a conference on “General Solutions for Smart City” (Smart City 360 Degrees) held in HCM City on September 19.