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Students were trained on digital literacy and online safety in Hà Nội on Saturday.— Photo courtesy of FacebookViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — About 1,100 students from Nguyễn Tất Thành high school and Nam Từ Liêm secondary school were trained on digital literacy and online safety in Hà Nội on Saturday. The event was part of the #ThinkBeforeYouShare online safety programme conducted by the Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD) and Facebook in Việt Nam since June this year. Executive Director of MSD Nguyễn Phương Linh said that for young people, social networking was an indispensable part of daily life. However, to build a positive online community, youths need the right skills to use social media safely. “With support from Facebook, we have designed a useful programme to help students analyse content on social media and use their own critical thinking and empathy. We expect … [Read more...] about Students trained to be safe online
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Online travel portal to debut on December
Representatives from VNAT, VTV, Viettel and Nam Việt Co ink an agreement to launch the portal on Tuesday in Hà Nội. - VNS PhotoViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — An online travel portal, intended to better advertise Vietnamese tourism and facilitate domestic and international visitors, will debut in December. The launch of the portal – named VTV Travel – follows a co-operation agreement inked among the Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), Vietnam Television, Viettel and Nam Việt Communication Technology Development and Investment JSC in the capital on Tuesday. The portal was developed as the digital era of Industry 4.0 with new technology applications has comprehensively changed transactions between travel agencies and tourists, said VNAT General Director Nguyễn Văn Tuấn. Tuấn said he hoped that the portal would introduce Việt Nam’s tourism image to holidaymakers while assisting his … [Read more...] about Online travel portal to debut on December
Bidding online helps boost public expenditure efficiency
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment's (MPI) Public Procurement Agency, during the first seven months of 2018, more than 8,900 bidding packages were bid for online, doubling the number in the same period last year. This year, it is expected that there will be approximately 15,000 packages applied for online bidding. From the perspective of a party calling for tenders, Pham Thi Thuy Ha, Head of the Board of Procurement Management under Vietnam Electricity (EVN), said that EVN's total investment is roughly US$4-5 billion a year. In the first year of joining the bidding system, EVN had only 10 online bidding packages, but the number went up to 200 packages during 2010-2012 and increased up to 4,500 packages in early 2018, with the largest package worth VND200 billion. Currently, EVN has 57% of the total bidding packages carried out online, with a savings rate of around 13%, much higher than the savings rate at 9-10% on traditional bidding. On behalf of a contractor, Ha … [Read more...] about Bidding online helps boost public expenditure efficiency
Big foreign investors change Vietnam’s online marketplace
The Hanoitimes - Vietnam’s online marketplace is developed rapidly given by big investments of foreign players, which has helped local consumers access to better quality services at more reasonable prices. Vietnam’s e-commerce market will boom by 2025 with revenue of US$7.5 billion Foreign players have so far spent aggressively in the market and even accepted losses to gain top positions. According to the Map of E-commerce in Vietnam recently published by Iprice Insight, Shopee has beat Lazada to become the top e-commerce platform by traffic in the third quarter of this year. This is the first time Lazada has lost the top position since the second quarter of 2017. Statistics from Iprice Insight, which is an online shopping aggregator’s portal of 7 ASEAN markets, showed that Shopee had a monthly average traffic of 34.5 million in the quarter while the number for Lazada was 30.2 million. Other players in the top five included Tiki with 29.4 million traffic per … [Read more...] about Big foreign investors change Vietnam’s online marketplace
500 businesses trained for online tax payment
They were guided to register and use the online tax payment service 24 per seven. The project of paying taxes online through banks belongs to one of major projects of the General Department of Vietnam Customs to facilitate tax payment, reduce customs clearance time and save storage cost for businesses. By THI HONG – Translated by Hai Mien … [Read more...] about 500 businesses trained for online tax payment