The Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies will co-organise the Hanoi Forum 2018 from November 8-11 in a bid to seek more measures to respond to climate change and boost sustainable development.

 Hanoi Urban Environment Company in Xuan Son Commune (Urenco 6) has been caught discharging untreated waste water into the environment in Ba Vi District, Hanoi.

 The Prime Minister recently gave approval in principle for the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to set up an ICT Industry Department to promote the production of made-in-Viet Nam terminal equipment and boost the electronics industry.

 Viettel is the 3G data leader in terms of all technical standards, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications’ telecom department.

 The southern province of Binh Duong has become the first and only one in Vietnam to be named a Smart21 community for 2019 by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).

A report shows that Vietnam will be short of approximately 1.2 million people needed in the IT sector by 2020. What should education institutions be doing in preparation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? 

 Vietnam has jumped two positions to reach 45th place on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 released by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

 To avoid the US’ $200 billion tariff slapped on Chinese goods, smartphone giant Apple’s manufacturers are looking to shift business from China to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.

 Lawmakers have decided to raise the environmental tax on a number of commodities from January 1, 2019.

 The Ministry of Finance has asked the Ministry of Transport not to grant business licences to shipping lines that transport scrap that includes waste and pollutants to Viet Nam.

 The 8th International Science Film Festival in Vietnam, themed “Food Revolution”, is underway in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the Goethe Institute announced at a press conference held in the capital city on October 22.

Within the framework of the Prime Minister’s working visit to Europe from October 14 – 18, VNPT signed many important collaboration agreements with its Belgian and Austrian partners.

 As Vietnamese smartphone producers are launching new products and Chinese giants are stepping up their game, Samsung and Apple’s hold on the market seems more fragile than ever before.

 In the chart of the Map of E-commerce in Vietnam, Lazada has fallen from the first to the third position.

 Nha Trang Bay is facing serious pollution caused by a drain from a surrounding residential area.

 While wastewater is threatening the environment in Hanoi, a wastewater treatment facility has been abandoned for a decade in Thanh Tri District.

 Vietnam is forecast to collect approximately 2.5 trillion VND (106.4 million USD) from payments of forest environmental services in 2018, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan has said.

 A range of decades-old trees in a forest managed by the two central provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue have been illegally logged. 

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and the Finnish Embassy in Vietnam launched the Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup, and Entrepreneurship Week 2018.

 The 10th Vietnam-US Joint Committee Meeting on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (JCM10) took place in Washington DC from October 15-17.