GE Healthcare on a mission to innovate Vietnam’s healthcare 08:00 | 18/12/2017 On the occasion of signing a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam’s privately-run Vinmec Healthcare System, Terri Bresenham, president and CEO ... Making local healthcare ‘future-ready’ 08:00 | 18/12/2017 US’ GE Healthcare has joined forces with Vinmec Healthcare system under Vingroup to advance Vietnam’s healthcare standards. Van Mai reports. GE Healthcare becomes strategic partner of Vinmec 10:08 | 13/12/2017 GE Healthcare, the medical arm of General Electric, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with Vinmec Healthcare System, fostering science ... GE to drive wave of solar investment in Vietnam 1 … [Read more...]
Microsoft the latest to be hit by hackers
Microsoft joined Facebook and Apple on the list of US technology titans targeted in recent cyberattacks. "As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion," Trustworthy Computing team general manager Matt Thomlinson said in a blog post. "During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations." There was no evidence customer data was stolen but an investigation into the attack was continuing, according to Thomlinson. "This type of cyberattack is no surprise to Microsoft and other companies that must grapple with determined and persistent adversaries," he said. Apple said Tuesday that hackers invaded its system in an attack similar to one recently carried out against Facebook, but that it repelled the intruders before its data was plundered. The maker of … [Read more...]
Overseas Vietnamese to get TV, radio news
VietNamNet Bridge – A project to provide 24 television and radio channels to overseas Vietnamese via the Internet will be implemented from 2015 to 2020. The project aims to provide information on policies of the Party and State, achievements of the doi moi (renewal) period and Vietnamese foreign affairs and the economy, as well as projects to attract international investment, tourism and trade promotion and the country's integration with Vietnamese citizens abroad. It also aims to expand high-quality and multi-form television and radio services on the Internet to make it more suitable to the country's socio-economic condition and the world's latest information technology. It will strive to cover all of the main areas and ensure that about one million people have daily access to the Internet broadcast system, which can simultaneously serve about 150,000 to 200,000 users. In past years, the overseas Vietnamese community have made significant contributions to the country's … [Read more...]
Malaysia Airlines shares lose 18 per cent after latest disaster
KUALA LUMPUR — Shares in Malaysia Airlines tumbled almost 18 per cent on Friday after one of its passenger jets crashed in violence-wracked Ukraine, just months after the carrier was hit by the loss of a plane over the Indian Ocean. The firm fell 17.8 per cent to 0.185 ringgit at one point in morning trade on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange, before paring some of those losses to sit 13 per cent lower. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it came down late on Thursday over eastern Ukraine, with US officials saying it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Ukrainian government forces are engaged in a fierce battle to quell a rebellion in the country's east by pro-Russian insurgents. Malaysia Airlines is still reeling from the unexplained disappearance March 8 of flight MH370 with 239 people aboard. Combined with the airline's perennial losses, the MH370 debacle has pummelled its shares this year – it has lost more … [Read more...]
Accuracy the price of speed in online news
by Tien Thanh Everyone knows that in the media, speed is what counts and the quicker a story spreads, the more popular it becomes. The web has clear advantages in spreading the news. However, with so many competing sources, accuracy is often the price that is paid. The mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines' Flight 370, once again proved the online media's superiority in delivering news to readers, both in terms of speed and diversity of content. Online newswires flooded the front pages with up-to-the-minute information, stories after stories of the latest photos, visual infographics, videos recorded from search planes, and each of these stories also attracted hundreds of comments. The online coverage of the incident far surpassed that of traditional media orgainisations. Available on smartphones, tablets and laptops, the young tech-savvy generation has access to news like never before. "I often check the news on my smartphones. I have not brought a printed newspaper for a … [Read more...]
Shares advance on business news
A street vendor walks past a trading board of Bao Viet Securities Company in Ha Noi. — VNS Photo Doan Tung Shares advanced on both local markets on Monday as investor confidence was bolstered by positive business news from listed companies. The benchmark VN Index on the HCM Stock Exchange and the HNX Index on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange gained 0.46 per cent each to close at 772.52 points and 98.73 points, respectively. The VN Index extended gains for a second session with total growth of 0.8 per cent while the HNX Index reversed a three-session decline of 1.5 per cent. Trading liquidity was modest compared to the previous sessions, with more than 294.8 million shares traded on both local exchanges, worth VND4.85 trillion (US$215.5 million). Sharp rises in some particular shares, such as Japan-Viet Nam Medical Instrument JSC (JVC) and PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services (PVD), following news on … [Read more...]
Vietnam News Agency to strengthen ties with State Audit
HA NOI (VNS)— The State Audit of Viet Nam should continue to create favourable conditions for the Vietnam News Agency and its underlying units to access information in the fastest manner possible in order to communicate news in an effective way. Nguyen Duc Loi, general director of the Vietnam News Agency, made the statement at a conference held to review the implementation of the communications co-operation agreement between the agency and the State Audit during 2009-13 period, and to discuss the two sides' plans for 2013-15. In response, General State Auditor Dinh Tien Dung said the Vietnam News Agency always provided accurate and latest news, contributing to raising public knowledge of auditing. Dung suggested the two sides continue to strengthen co-operation to ensure timely reports on auditing activities and the results of the State Audit's work, helping to increase compliancy of auditing laws among organisations and individuals. The Vietnam News Agency is a key national … [Read more...]
Myanmar paper is 22nd member of Asia News Network
SINGAPORE - (VNS) Myanmar's largest private publisher, Eleven Media Group has joined the Asia News Network (ANN), bringing the total membership to 22 newspapers in 20 countries. Dr Than Htut Aung, Chairman and CEO of Eleven Media Group, signed the agreement with ANN's founding member and Executive Board member, Mr Felix Soh; Mr Paul Linnarz, advisor to the ANN Executive Board and Director, Media Programme Asia of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a German political foundation; and Ravi Velloor, Straits Times Foreign Editor, at the Singapore Press Holdings' Multimedia Centre on October 23. Founded in 2000, Eleven Media publishes four weeklies with a combined weekly circulation of 350,000. It was named "Media of the Year" by France-based media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, in 2011 for its long-standing fight for press freedom. Eleven Media also operates Myanmar's biggest English-language mobile SMS news, and websites in the local and English languages. "ANN is the gateway for … [Read more...]
ANN joins roadshow for advert agencies Asia News Network
Asia News Network editors and executives at a roadshow in Singapore last Friday.—ANN/VNS Photo Singapore (ANN/VNS)- Asia News Network has set up an advertising office in Singapore to represent the 22 members from 19 Asian countries. Members also unveiled new media initiatives in a roadshow to leading regional advertising agencies last week. Up to 20 regional advertising executives based in Singapore were joined by 30 from Thailand to attend the one-day roadshow by ANN which were co-hosted with ETPL (Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd), Singapore-based technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Knorex Pte Ltd, the developer of iSnap print-to-mobile technology. The theme of the event was "Advancing the Next Frontier of Asian Media". At the event, ANN also signed a memorandum of understanding with ETPL to collaborate on projects and solutions aimed at the media and advertising industries. This will cover among other human language … [Read more...]
Viet Nam News launches latest business website
HA NOI (VNS)— Viet Nam News is proud to announce the launch of bizhub.vn. This is the first subsidiary of the newspaper's popular online edition vietnamnews.vn. Taking you inside the corporate world, Biz Hub provides readers with the latest news on companies, M&As, business laws, new products and comment from industry insiders. We are committed to providing the most reliable channel of business news and analysis on local issues, allowing users to exchange ideas and make valuable contacts in a variety of fields. Our goal is to keep readers up to date in one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing countries and facilitate constructive dialogue between companies in Viet Nam and around the world. Businessmen can also find opportunities to boost their company profile and open the door to fresh opportunities by contacting us at bizhub.vn. New look for vietnamnews.vn In February 2013 Viet Nam News released new layout for the site vietnamnews.vn, serving you since 1998. Apart from … [Read more...]