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Police in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will establish an integrated database to tackle terrorism, a senior Indonesian police officer said on September 14.

A new website created by university students provides information to relatives about war martyrs and their graves at HCM City’s Martyrs Cemetery in District 9.

The US stands ready to sponsor, support and share its experience in building smart cities with Vietnam in general and Hanoi in particular, US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a list of online public services at level 3 and 4, which will be implemented at ministries, departments and localities in 2017.

The Can Tho municipal Department of Industry and Trade transferred its governing role in the Korea-Vietnam Incubator Park (KVIP) to the municipal Department of Science and Technology on May 31.

Establishing smart cities will make urban areas better places to live and work due to their economic, social and environmental aspects, Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Minh Hong said at a symposium in Hanoi on May 18.

As of December 31, 2016, Vietnam had a total forest area of nearly 14.378 million hectares, including over 10.242 million hectares of natural forest and more than 4.135 million hectares of planted area, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Vietnam Social Security has shared the database of 24 million households buying health insurance with the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam is set to enhance bilateral and multilateral cooperation to step up research activities in basic sciences, according to a programme for basic sciences development between 2017 and 2025.

The management and sharing of data on forests in Vietnam was the main topic of a workshop co-organised in HCM City on March 8.

Russia has offered the Philippines access to an intelligence database to help it fight crime and train elite forces to protect President Rodrigo Duterte.

The use black boxes in vehicles, and the data extracted from them, has proved to be effective in detecting traffic violations.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has asked for intensified efforts to accelerate the establishment of a national population database which was approved by the Prime Minister nearly one year ago.

Vietnamese students in Japan had a chance to learn about the personnel demands of Japanese enterprises at a job connection programme recently held in Japan’s Saitama prefecture.

The Government has made efforts to improve the management of public assets but the task is made difficult by its massive scale and deficient database.

Most hospitals in Vietnam have failed to access information technology effectively as they don’t have appropriate software to satisfy their demands.

The Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts in France has suggested Ho Chi Minh City establish a common open database which would help experts and managers seek development orientations

Building an investment and trade database for 21 southern provinces and cities was discussed at a meeting on May 17.

Nestor Scherbey, a senior advisor of the Vietnam Trade Facilitation Alliance (VTFA), has suggested Vietnamese cities and provinces establish an information database on foreign direct investment (FDI)

The world's leading mobile phone manufacturer Apple Inc. plans to invest up to 1 billion USD to build an Asia-focused database center in Vietnam, according to local media.