Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam witnessed a significant yearly increase of 52 percent to 1.9 billion USD in the first month of this year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Can Tho University and Brain Works Asia Co., Ltd of Japan launched a new office for the Centre for Advanced Technology Research and Renovation in the university on November 2, which aims to strengthen technological application in production, especially aquaculture and rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta region.
Vietnam determines to transform from a consumer to a provider of future technologies and services, ready to stay at the front door of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), according to Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Dai Duong.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urged the science and technology sector to renovate and restructure to boost scientific and technological research.
As advantages of natural resources and labor forces cannot last forever, education, science and technology will help with the country’s growth and competitiveness, stated Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Van Tung.
A network of thousands of outstanding Vietnamese individuals living in foreign countries world-wide, is expected to be set up following a project newly kicked off by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Three teachers and 19 students from the Hanoi-Amsterdam Gifted High School are in Israel to take part in a special programme on robotics and startups at Hakfar HaYarok high school in Tel Aviv.
The total foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in Vietnam in the first half of the year reached more than 11.2 billion USD, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) said.
Vietnam received as much as 6,886 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) by April 20, a year-on-year surge of 85 percent, according to the General Statistic Office (GSO).
Vietnamese start-ups need consultancy supports on tax policies, legal, finance and accounting, as well as training courses to help them become professional entrepreneurs.
Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the first Vietnamese mathematician to win the
Fields Medal, talked to Lao Dong Cuoi Tuan (Weekend Labour) newspaper
about how Vietnam can draw more researchers.
State President Truong Tan Sang has praised overseas Vietnamese (OVs)
throughout the world for their significant contributions to
socio-economic development and charitable activities in the homeland.
Vietnam attracted more than 15 billion USD of foreign direct
investment (FDI) in the first nine months of this year, a surge of 36.1
percent year-on-year, according to the latest report by the Ministry of
Planning and Investment (MPI).
The World Bank (WB) in Vietnam said on June 1 that it has approved
two credits worth 250 million USD for Vietnam to implement Red River
Delta health support and scientific-technological research projects.
Danish Ambassador to Vietnam John Nielsen has affirmed that his country
is expanding cooperation with Vietnam in science and technology,
focusing on green growth and new energy, in which Denmark has many
experiences that it is willing to share with Vietnam.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged localities to
attach the development of science and technology to their social
economic development plans so they can be implemented effectively from
next year.
