The health ministry of Việt Nam has won a Bloomberg Philanthropies award for its efforts to monitor tobacco use and prevention policies.

 The satellite data sharing system, Việt Nam Data Cube, has been introduced in the country, promising a satellite image database for Vietnamese earth observation satellite data users.

Việt Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth thanks in part to the significant contribution of the agriculture sector over the past 30 years. Despite the drastic changes, however, rural women still face numerous difficulties and challenges.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, the country’s rice granary, expects to harvest around 11 million tonnes of paddy this winter – spring rice crop, one million tonnes more than last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tức (News) online newspapers.

The number of chickenpox cases in the south has been on the rise, with many newborn babies getting infected, doctors said.

Collaboration across industry, academia and government is needed to both retrain the existing workforce and better prepare the next generation of graduates from secondary schools and universities to achieve optimal success with the fourth industrial revolution, a conference heard in HCM City on Thursday.

Local Vietnamese tech companies “are fully capable of” providing the core components of a smart city, Lê Ngọc Tuấn, head of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) division in one of the leading IT companies in the country, FPT.