For better cyberspace, the Vietnamese prime minister has asked competent agencies to build a code of conducts on the Internet for both telecommunications service providers and social network users.

 Vietnam will undertake many adaptation activities to increase its resilience to climate change, enabling it to contribute more to mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

 Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has draft a decree guiding the enforcement of Law on Cyberspace which provides that foreign firms have to store Vietnamese social medial user database in the country.

 Acquiring the mobile retail chain Vien Thong A is expected to help Vingroup distribute its Vsmart smartphone products.   

 Farmers in the central province of Nghe An are worried about wild elephants which have returned to find foods at their fields over the last couple of days. 

Tran Hong Ha, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, suggested assigning certain enterprises to manage and sell the waste abandoned at local ports within two months. However, no one would buy the toxic waste.

 Results from a survey on e-government announced in the Vietnam Digital Economy Forum 2018 showed that Vietnam stands at the 88th position among 193 nations with 0.59 point, ranking the above average.

 Evaluations from the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications show that at the moment, there are many unidentified origin Internet of Things devices which cannot ensure the information safety.

 The National Innovation Centre, which is going to be established next year, will contribute to bringing Vietnam into the 4.0 era.

 Up to around 42 million people in Vietnam use Facebook every day, one of the highest rates in Southeast Asia.

 Da Nang has launched a campaign to call on the community to ‘Say No’ to single-use plastic products to deal with pollution and waste treatment costs.

 Protecting pangolins from the wildlife trade is a difficult task.

 Authorities in the southern province of Cà Mau do not agree that Cà Mau City’s garbage treatment plant should extend its shutdown to conduct repairs.

 Using atomic energy for peaceful purposes has been seen in various sectors in Vietnam but its potential for development remains huge.

With a huge database on Geographic Information System, the platform of HCMGIS is expected to greatly contribute to the common database of Ho Chi Minh City while allowing easy integration into new software.

 The Law on Cyber Security’s regulations regarding data storage and establishment of branches and representative offices in Vietnam are in line with international practices, said an official of the Ministry of Public Security. 

 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) yesterday officially announced that Mr. Tan Jee Toon has been assigned General Director of IBM Vietnam, replacing Mr. Eric CW Yeo.

 The three largest mobile phone operators in Vietnam, namely VinaPhone, Viettel, and MobiFone, will officially allow their subscribers to switch provider without changing their number from November 16.

 Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report.

 Russian team LC1BC won the global-scale cyber security competition Whitehat Grand Prix 2018, which took place in Hanoi on November 1.