The southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has upgraded its water supply network using advanced technologies in operation, exploitation and supply of clean water.

 Many hundred-year old trees in Na Pen Forest in the northern province of Dien Bien have been illegally logged, putting the future of the old forest at risk, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

 At midnight on a night in early January, around 50 barges bearing number plates from northern provinces were mining sand outside of Can Gio Sea, HCM City.

 Vietnam's Mekong Delta region could suffer serious salt intrusion by the end of this month, according to the Southern Irrigation Institute.

 Coral reefs have been revived on an area of 2,000sq.m in water off the Cham Island Maritime Protected Area (MPA) after a pilot project that ran from 2015-17.

 Apple CEO Tim Cook has recently announced a plan to build a database center in Viet Nam in an effort to reduce reliance on third partners like Amazon and Microsoft.

 The National Cyber Security Center and global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab have signed a memorandum of understanding to address information security challenges in the country and help the Government build cybersecurity capacity.

 KMS Technology, a Vietnamese outsourcing and software development company focused on the US, will expand into Asian market, with Viet Nam being the focus.

 The country’s leading telecom company, Viettel, is set to become a digital service provider this year, having lined up a number of products and services from the digital eco-system.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has awarded the country’s first trial 5G licence to Viettel, the largest telecommunications company in Vietnam.

 The first images taken by Vietnamese satellite MicroDragon were sent to a land station in Japan on January 23 morning (Vietnam time), according to the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

 Regarding the detection of infections which are constantly updated every second, Vietnam has always been among the three most infected countries.

 Police in the central province of Ha Tinh have busted a ring of people who illegally traded wild animals for meat, saving a total of 215 pangolins from cages.

Assoc. Prof. Pham Quang Cuong was among 100 overseas Vietnamese intellectuals invited to his home country in 2018 to discuss Industrial Revolution 4.0 in Vietnam.

A research team led by Vietnamese national Nguyen Trong Hieu have successfully developed a new tool to help manufacturers spot defects or unwanted features of mobile phones and solar cells in the production process.

 Companies in Vietnam have incurred a financial impact of $10 million or more, which is the highest costs from cyberattacks in Southeast Asia, according to the Cisco 2018 Asia-Pacific Security Capabilities Benchmark Study released on January 18.

 Local residents in Hanoi will experience a fifth-generation (5G) network service once it is launched on a trial basis in the first quarter of the year, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications at a meeting held today.

 Digital content revenue was estimated at US$895 million last year, of which revenue from digital content export reached $775 million, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

 A recent report by the Vietnam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) revealed that the bandwidth for 4G in Vietnam is lower than in many other countries.

 Residents of Nghi Yen Commune in the province of Nghe An are still waiting for relocation despite suffering severe environmental pollution.