Sustainable Development Goals
Digitisation of healthcare sector, a double-edged sword
The development of technologies such as 4G, 5G, internet of things and artificial intelligence has rapidly changed the healthcare sector’s landscape globally, including in Việt Nam, with more organisations adopting digitisation, according to experts.Digitisation across the healthcare industry has helped service providers improve the quality ...
More needed to strengthen links in global agricultural value chains
MARD & VCCI hold “Vietnamese Businesses: Links to Participate in Global Agricultural Value Chains” forum in Hanoi.In order to improve added value in Vietnam’s agricultural value chain, MARD has presented a number of solutions: (i) Promote the spread of information regarding links associated with production, ...
Nghi Do
Groundbreaking ceremony for first smart city project in Hanoi
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the first smart city project in Hanoi, the largest of its kind nationwide, in the capital’s suburban Dong Anh district on October 6, with the participation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.The project worth nearly US$4.2 billion is invested ...
Cooperation in vocational training remains loose
A report by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children has pointed out that the partnerships between vocational schools and companies remained loose and unable to satisfy the rising demands of the labour market.Vu Tien Loc, head of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and ...
Hanoi sets up weather warning system
The Institute of Geophysics at the Ministry of Science and Technology has successfully built a modern warning and monitoring system to collect input data for forecasting heavy rain and flooding in Hanoi. The modern monitoring system includes two X-band radars, eight stations for measuring electric fields, ...
Le Diem
Millenials prefer freedom from office, take to freelancing
Opting out of traditional eight-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week office work, many Vietnamese are now looking to freelance, reflecting a global trend. According to Manpower’s 2018 Total Workforce Index, Vietnam has over 57 million employees with 70 percent coming from the Y generation (born between 1976 and 1995) and ...
Linh Do
Vietnam’s Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 opens in Hanoi
The Vietnam’s Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 officially opened in Hanoi on October 3 as part of the activities to realise the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW on actively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to accelerate the national development. Under the theme of “Vietnam’s Strategy & Action ...
ADB, DHD deal to provide first large-scale floating solar PV in Vietnam
On 2/10, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $37 million loan agreement with Da Nhim – Ham Thuan – Da Mi Hydro Power Joint Stock Company (DHD) to finance the installation of a 47.5 megawatt (MW) peak floating photovoltaic (PV) solar power facility on ...
Workshop discusses impacts of climate change on economic development
Experts discussed the impacts of climate change on economic development in Vietnam using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model at an international workshop at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) on September 30.CGE is an economic model that uses actual economic data to estimate how an ...
SAP and UNICEF partner to give young people in Viet Nam job skills training
On 30/9, SAP and UNICEF announced a new partnership to provide quality education, life skills and digital skills training to adolescents in disadvantaged communities in Viet Nam, preparing them for decent work and active citizenship.The three-year partnership, joining hands with the Government of Viet Nam, ...
