Việt Nam News

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in popular smart cameras that are frequently used as baby monitors or for home and office security surveillance.

Almost a third of more than 4,100 enterprises surveyed in Việt Nam do business on social networks, a slight decrease from the previous year.

HCM City officials yesterday launched the I-Star Award 2018 competition on creativity, innovation and business start-ups.

The distribution of fake, low-quality and pirated goods is increasing relentlessly and can only be prevented through combined efforts by all sectors, a seminar heard in HCM City on Friday.

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) came under heavy criticism yesterday as economic experts voiced discontent with the association’s favouritism, lax business practises and overall incompetency in the rice export sector.

Fears of a trade war between the US and China have rocked global stock markets in recent sessions, but experts anticipate limited effects on Việt Nam’s securities market growth as the market is on solid footing and is increasingly reliant on domestic demand.

Việt Nam’s index of industrial production (IIP) in the first quarter of this year gained the highest year-on-year growth rate of 11.6 per cent in the past three years.

After struggling in the morning, the market accelerated upward in the afternoon session on Friday as real estate stocks and petroleum remained upbeat.

Countries in the Greater Mekong region were in desperate need for billions of dollars to meet the increasing demand for infrastructure, but institutional barriers were blocking the private sector to join the playing field.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries need to better use the private sector and high technology to boost their sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on March 30.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries must invest in human capital to take advantage of the opportunities that the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) brings, said panelists at a discussion on GMS and Global Trade during the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) on March 30 in Hà Nội.

Cà Mau Province plans to help set up and attract around 6,000 new businesses by 2020, and 15,000 companies by 2030, by offering funding and changing legal procedures to accommodate the private sector.

Vietnamese firms need to have greater awareness of information security and make clear plans before buying cyber security solutions, a seminar heard in HCM City on Friday.

Countries in the Great Mekong Sub-region (GMS) should focus on improving the infrastructure to better the connectivity among them, said Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Thailand’s Minister of Transport.

Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko and his delegation on Friday attended the signing ceremony of a business cooperation contract in the northern province of Hưng Yên.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has signed a decision to establish the secretariat to assist the national steering committee on restructuring the economy and renewing the country's growth model.

Despite decreasing one point to 115 points compared to the previous quarter, Vietnamese consumer confidence finished 2017 on a high note.

The starting price for the initial public offering (IPO) of the Vietnam Television Cable Corporation (VTVCab) has been set at VNĐ140,900 (US$6.26) per share.