Technology

Vietnam spent 1.1 billion USD importing mobile phones and spare parts in May, up 36.2 percent from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The International Environment and Energy Technology Exhibition 2019 kicked off on June 12 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Saigon Union of Trading Cooperatives launched a “No Plastic Bag Day” programme on June 10 at its 750 supermarkets and conventional stores nationwide.

A forum on technology and energy cooperation between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from June 25 to 27.

A wide range of telecommunications, information and communications technologies and solutions are being introduced at the Vietnam ICT COMM and Telefilm 2019..

Tran Ngoc Anh Khoa, Nguyen Thanh and Luong Duyen Binh Nguyen will represent Vietnam at the ACAWC’s final round slated for July 28-31 in New York.

Forty-four projects will be presented with the first-ever Ho Chi Minh City Creative Awards at a ceremony scheduled on June 6, as heard at a press conference on May 31.

The Republic of Korea’s National IT Industry Promotion Agency officially launched a centre for Vietnam-Korea IT cooperation in Ho Chi Minh City on May 23.

Chatbot Vietnam JSC has won an award for a technology solution in the “E-business” category at the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society held in the Switzerland.

Vietnamese logistics application service provider Abivin has beaten rivals from 40 countries to win the Start-up World Cup 2019.

The Vietnam Science and Technology Day was marked with a ceremony held in Sydney, Australia, on May 18.

On the occasion of the Vietnam Science and Technology Day, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has written an article on the orientation and solutions to create strategic breakthroughs.