HCM City scales up smart city development project to all districts The HCM City People’s Committee has urged all districts to conduct programmes on smart city development, with specific targets, roadmaps and implementation measures suited to the characteristics of individual locality.

City sets up pilot operation centres for smart health, education HCM City yesterday (February 11) launched a trial model of an operation centre each for smart health and education as part of its project to turn into a smart city.

HCM City strives for “smart” schools The HCM City educational sector plans to enhance the application of IT in management, teaching, testing, and student assessment, Lê Thanh Liêm, vice chairman of the city People’s Committee, said on Friday (December 20).

Students and teachers ready for new school year

Võ Văn Cương, vice principal of Ngọc Yêu Secondary School, removes mud from his sandals after walking for 20 minutes along a dirt road after heavy rain.

Party leader, President receives Malaysian Prime Minister Party General Secretary, President Nguyễn Phú Trọng hosted a reception for visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

International exhibitions on telecom, film-TV begin in HCM City The International Exhibition on Products and Technology of Telecommunication, IT and Communication (Vietnam ICT COMM) and the International Exhibition on Film and Television (Telefilm) opened in HCM City on June 6.

Vietnamese team wins int’l smart city initiative competition

The iNut Smartcity Team from Việt Nam’s University of Economics and Law has won the World Technopolis Association (WTA) 2018 Bình Dương Smart City Initiative Competition.

Vietnamese, Japanese firms partner to build smart city

The VNTT Company and NTT Việt Nam Corporation signed a business cooperation contract on June 19 to work together in building a smart city in Việt Nam.

Smart city solutions for Việt Nam can be home-grown: tech businesses

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.

Việt Nam celebrates 20 years of Internet

Over 20 years of development, the Internet in Việt Nam has made impressive advances, permeating into every part of daily life and changing people’s habits, noted Trương Minh Tuấn, Minister of Information and Communications at an event marking Internet Day 2017.