In 2020, Vietnamese internet users suffered a loss ofVND24 trillion (US$1 billion ) due to cyber virus, the Bach Khoa Anti-Virus Center (Bkav) has said following a study which was carried out in December, 2020 and was released today.
For the very first time, the Vietnam Massive Open Online Courses have been opened publicly to help people from every walk of life to get access to educational materials.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said that Vietnam is going to have vaccine that protects pigs from African swine fever.
Domestic firms shipped over 1.37 billion medical face masks of various types abroad throughout 2020, according to statistics compiled by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung yesterday chaired the press conference to announce the completion of the scheme ‘Digitization of Terrestrial Television Broadcasting by 2020’. Beginning from December 28, 2020, Vietnam formally stopped providing analog television nationwide.
Despite Covid-19 pandemic, which has gravely affected the global economy, the Vietnamese economy can still maintain its development of 2.91 percent, making it one of the fastest growing nations in the world. This is because of effectively taking advantages of modern technologies, as stated by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in its 2020 task summary meeting.
The foreign ministers of Vietnam and the US have pledged to enhance cooperation between the two countries on the basis of respecting independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political regime of each other.
For the first time within ten years, Vietnam saw a fall in the number of workers in 2020 when the unemployment rate also went up, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
The Prime Minister has approved the national strategy regarding the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) until 2030, including developing a digital government and digital economy in Vietnam.
