Education experts, managerial officers and teachers all say that a challenging tenure faces the newly appointed Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son.

President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi Nguyen Kim Son was appointed Minister of Education and Training at the 11th session of the 14th National Assembly.

To be able to provide satellite internet service in Vietnam, Starlink must have a commercial agreement or set up a joint venture with Vietnamese partners to obtain a license to provide satellite telecommunication services.

Although average life expectancy has increased, the number of cases of non-infectious disease among Vietnamese has risen, said Dr Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, head of the Department of Health Protection and Care of Central Officials.

American Kyo York came to Vietnam for the first time as a tourist in 2007. When he returned in 2009, he worked in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang as a volunteer, teaching English to underprivileged children.

With Vietnamese regulators’ efforts to minimise the risks of corporate bonds’ mass issuance, the landscape is predicted to be cooled down compared to a frenzy of debt instruments in the previous period.

Vietnam has for the first time released a list of sectors which foreign investors are restricted or banned from accessing.

Member of the 13th Party Central Committee Tran Van Son was appointed as Minister-Chairman of the Government Office at the 11th session of the 14th National Assembly on April 8, 2021.

Sixty-year-old Nguyen Thi Tam has been making fish sauce for nearly half a century and has developed her own brand - Tam Tuoi - within the line of fish sauce made by the Cua Khe cooperative.

Farming in Vietnam has become more digitized, which has eased the workload and increased sales of products to people who live in other localities.

Auditor-General Ho Duc Phoc was appointed as Minister of Finance at the 11th session of the 14th National Assembly on April 8, 2021.

The first three months of the year have witnessed more local businesses beef up their mergers and acquisitions efforts in order to scale up operations.

Khai Thai Cooperative in Hanoi is the first Vietnamese business producing fibers from banana stalks. The products have gained favour from overseas markets.

Vietnam has entered into a partnership with South Korea's biggest internet company as part of a national strategy that seeks to transform the Southeast Asian country into a global player in artificial intelligence by the start of the next decade.

Nguyen Thanh Cong initially knew nothing about chess, but became an internationally certified chess referee after years of studying along with his prize-winning daughter.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on April 9 held a ceremony to present the “For peace, friendship among nations” insignia to outgoing US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink.

The Political Bureau on April 9 assigned four of its members to join the 13th Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, raising its total members to 11.

Party Central Committee member Doan Hong Phong was elected as Inspector General of Government Inspectorate at the 11th session of the 14th National Assembly on April 8, 2021.

The Defence Ministry held a ceremony on April 9 to present the President’s decision to send Major Nguyen Phuc Dong from the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, to take up a position at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to raise the demand for digital transformation amongst enterprises, the cloud computing market appeals to both domestic and foreign suppliers despite the difficulties each side has to face.