Businesses which reuse materials are the lifeline of Vietnam’s environmental future, a workshop in Hanoi was told on Wednesday.

Six suspected of poisoning large areas of pine trees in the Central Highlands Province of Lam Đồng have been arrested, Bao Lam District Police announced on Wednesday.

The Japan-Vietnam Environmental Improvement Company (JVE), which has treated a section of the To Lich River in Hanoi, has offered to treat the polluted water in the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe, Xuyen Tam and 19/5 canals in HCMC.

The VN Information Security Department has issued a warning of new vulnerabilities found in remote desktop services, which may affect 22,000 computers using Windows operating system in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Information and Communications might create an IP blacklist, recording IPs that send out spam text messages, calls and emails, officials said.

The use of millions of cubic metres of water from the Red River to supply West Lake and clean the polluted To Lich River has been the cheapest and best way to clean the latter river so far.

August 15-16 event in Hanoi to present cutting-edge research and innovative developments in the field of AI.

The community of Vietnamese TV service providers has been stirred up by the news that Baidu and Tencent have begun selling VOD (video on demand) with subtitles in Vietnamese, collecting fees from VIP subscribers in Vietnam dong.

The first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has been providing service for three months, and more MVNOs are expected to be launched. However, experts believe that it will be difficult to succeed in current conditions.

To build a Vietnamese social network and cement its position in Vietnam, the first thing that needs to be done is to defeat Facebook.

Quang Nam is seeking solutions for the conservation of critically endangered primates living in a primary forest, while creating stable livelihoods for log farmers in Tam My Tay, home to 50 endangered grey-shanked douc langurs.

Prof Nguyen Thanh Liem, head of Vinmec Research Institute of Stem Cell and Gene Technology and one of top 100 Asian scientists 2019, says that Vietnamese are quite capable of carrying out scientific research at the international level.

After facing cyber attacks, many businesses tend to conceal the fact and do not share technical information on the incident, even though cyber assaults may carry lessons for other firms hoping to avoid similar problems.

Vietnam needs an additional 50,000 information and communication technology (ICT) firms to speed up digital transformation, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung.

Mr. Marc Djandji, Entrepreneur in Residence at VIISA's Fintech Lab, tells about the mark fintech is making in Vietnam.

About 3,000 tonnes of waste, which is supposed to be buried at Co Do District’s dumping sites in Can Tho City, will be burned to produce energy on a trial basis, according to local authorities.

Viet Nam wants to have at least five billion-dollar tech firms (unicorns) by 2025 and 10 by 2030 as planned in its draft on national strategy on the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The move would lift the ambitions of a nation already well on its way to becoming a powerhouse maker of smartphones and other high-end gadgets.

The 2019 edition of the Vietnam ICT Summit is scheduled to take place on August 8 under the theme “Digital Transformation for A Prosperous Vietnam”, the organisers have announced.

Vietnam will host the Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, from November 18-22, said the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association on August 6.