VietNamNet Bridge - If Vietnam doesn’t have a plan to exploit sand in an effective and reasonable way, it will have to import sand in the future, experts have said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some customer service departments no longer put staff on duty at night because the job now can be undertaken by Hana, a virtual consultancy officer created by Mideas, a startup.

Dang Viet Dung, managing director of Uber Vietnam, thinks Vietnam may not catch up with the revolution in the short term, while it remains a question in the medium term. 

Here are the opinions of business leaders on what the fourth industrial revolution has in store for Vietnam.

 The number of traffic accidents related to trucks has been on the rise. Lax management over road freight has been partially blamed for the problem.

 The Ministry of Transport has shortened the tolling duration of 13 build-operate-transfer (BOT) road projects by a combined 92 years and three months.

 Vietnam Bear Sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc, the first of its kind in the country, is opening for visitors to raise public awareness of protecting the endangered species.

As of December 31, 2016, Vietnam had a total forest area of nearly 14.378 million hectares, including over 10.242 million hectares of natural forest and more than 4.135 million hectares of planted area.

 An official of the Ministry of Finance has detailed four financial cooperation initiatives proposed by Vietnam in the APEC Year 2017, ahead of the Senior Finance Officials’ Meeting slated for May 18-19 in Ninh Binh province.

 Vietnam-Myanmar traditional friendship and cooperative relations

 The impressive growth of Viet Nam’s tourism sector has given a boost to tourism and resort property market, according to experts.

 Viet Nam has proposed an initiative on building an e-commerce facilitation framework within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), as it is an important content in the 2017 APEC’s agenda.

 Japan has become the largest market for Vietnamese shrimps, accounting for 21.9 per cent of the country’s shrimp export value in the first quarter of 2017.

 The Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) has been made the exclusive financial institution to carry out settlements for derivatives trading transactions.

 Vietnam beat Laos 2-0 in Group A’s last match in the ongoing ASEAN Football Federation’s (AFF) U-15 Women’s Championship in Laos on Tuesday.

 HCM City police have released their investigation report on a suspected case of sexual harassment of a girl student at a primary school in Thu Duc District.

 Some 1,900 computers in Viet Nam have been attacked by WannaCry virus – one of the largest-ever cyber-attacks affecting computers across the globe.

 The Government will adopt a series of measures, including pumping more oil, to achieve economic growth of as high as 6.7% this year, said Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung.

 The third session of the National Assembly is scheduled to take place from May 22 to June 21, the NA Standing Committee announced on May 17.

 The business community has put forward recommendations for the more effective implementation of the Government’s Resolution No.35/NQ-CP on supporting and developing enterprises through 2020 at a conference with the Prime Minister in Hanoi on May 17.