Technology

A hackathon has been launched to look for innovative ideas in education, healthcare, information and economics to tackle the COVID-19 epidemic.

A Vietnamese telecoms provider said on April 4 that the Asia-America Gateway undersea cable linking Southeast Asia with the US has suffered a breakdown.

A number of firms have allowed their employees to work from home to protect them during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is increasing the risks to cybersecurity.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued a directive and launched a campaign to apply Vietnamese technology for digital life.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has urged digital companies to innovate and develop platforms for online services.

A survey on salary by Robert Walters said that recruitment in Vietnam posted growth last year.

A team of researchers from the Eastern People's Military Hospital have finished detailed designs for a robot to clean and disinfect rooms of those quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in collaboration with the Centre of Science and Technology Development for Youth have successfully created a mobile disinfection chamber serving in COVID-19-affected areas.

There were 288 cyberattacks targeting Vietnamese websites in February, up 1.8 percent compared to the previous month, according to a report of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

The number of detections of web threats in Vietnam fell by more than 30 percent last year compared to 2018, with 75 million different Internet-borne cyber threats, according to Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) 2019.

A group of influenza researchers and a forestry scientist were named winners of the Kovalevskaya Award 2019, a prize dedicated to outstanding female scientists.

An early warning system for COVID-19 has been launched by the Institute of Prevention Medicine and Public Health (IPMPH) at the Hanoi University of Medicine.