It’s Golden Week again, which means the cities of Southeast Asia are seeing an influx of tourists from China visiting iconic sites, buying souvenirs and tasting local delicacies.

Exploiting Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, media corporation Yeah1 and the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Authority of Press have jointly launched the Appnews Vietnam application for local media outlets.

Both climate-change adaptation and modern technological solutions are needed to actively manage water resources, deputy director of the Viet Nam Academy for Water Resources, Tran Dinh Hoa, told a workshop in HCM City last week.

Scientists have found three items of rhino fossil dating back between 30,000 and 50,000 years at a cave of the central province of Quang Binh’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Nearly 400 all-time high temperature records were broken over the summer.

Tonnes of garbage have been discovered dumped on beaches in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau City.

Pham Dat, 28, started up his own café shop – Tipi Coffee – in the central city of Da Nang in 2014, but started going ‘green’ by using bamboo straws two years later. The shop started using glass and stainless steel straws in 2017.

It may be the smallest ozone hole in three decades but scientists are warning against complacency.

In response to climate change, amendments to some parts of the 2014 Law on Environmental Protection are necessary, said Truong Duc Tri, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Authorities in Hoi An are seeking measures to deal with the rising amount of waste.

Le Thanh Tung, deputy head the Department of Plant Cultivation, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to Nông thôn Ngày Nay newspaper on the need to develop a long term plan to cope with floods in the Mekong Delta.

Vietnam's e-learning market is diversifying in terms of offerings but innovation must continue to keep up with demand and new trends.

Before "disappearing" from App Store and Play Store stores in Vietnam, AirVisual was the most downloaded air quality monitoring app in the country last week.

Further measures are required to tackle the air pollution that has been plaguing HCM City in the last few days, authorities have admitted.

A haze has covered HCM City on and off for the last two weeks and air quality has severely deteriorated according to some global weather monitoring websites, but city residents are not getting information about it in time from authorities.

In efforts to embrace the fourth industrial revolution, Vietnam's cities and provinces are pushing smart city programmes, combining technology with internet-connected devices to enhance municipal management and economy.

More than 50 firms and 10 universities are developing voice data, but they are not sharing data to create a common database.

Virtual telecom carriers have a great opportunity to gain a foothold in Viet Nam’s market thanks to the country’s open regulatory environment and young and tech-savvy population.

Gapo, Lotus and Astra, the three Vietnamese social networks, have debuted within a short time. But Facebook remains the favorite social network in Vietnam.

Drones are being used on a trial basis to spray crop protection chemicals in the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Long An under the region’s high-tech agricultural programmes.