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A mobile phone assembly line at Samsung Việt Nam's factory. The company’s export value hit $65.5 billion, up 16 per cent on year. — Photo courtesy of the firm HÀ NỘI — Despite difficulties due to COVID-19, Samsung Việt Nam earned US$74.2 billion in revenue last year, up 14 per cent annually. The company’s export value, meanwhile, hit $65.5 billion, up 16 per cent on year, according to its 2021 business report. Samsung Việt Nam attributed the outcomes to its plants’ serious implementation of pandemic prevention and control measures in line with regulations of the Vietnamese Government, particularly after the fourth wave of outbreaks began in late April last year. The company said it received comprehensive support from the Government and the authorities in localities where its factories are located, thus avoiding interruptions to their operation. Also in 2021, over four million Samsung foldable phones were sold worldwide, four times that the volume recorded in 2020. Currently, … [Read more...] about Samsung Việt Nam’s 2021 revenue exceeds US$74.2 billion

People test 5G services around Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hà Nội in a 5G trial event launched by Viettel in 2020. Viettel once again claimed the top spot as Việt Nam’s fastest mobile provider during the last quarter of 2021. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết HÀ NỘI — Viettel once again claimed the top spot as Việt Nam’s fastest mobile provider during the last quarter of 2021, earning a speed score of 48.23 on modern chipsets, the data service provider Ookla’s latest Q4 Vietnam Internet Performance Report showed. Vinaphone closely followed with a speed score of 45.51. MobiFone came last at 35.81. The rankings are based on data from Speedtest which relies on median download speed to best reflect the speeds a user is likely to achieve in a market. Viettel also overtook Vinaphone for the highest mobile Consistency Score in Việt Nam during Q4 2021 with 91.2 per cent of results showing at least a 5 Megabit per second (Mbps) minimum download speed and 1 Mbps minimum upload speed. However, when … [Read more...] about Viettel still Việt Nam’s fastest mobile provider in Q4

From 16:00 on January 20 to 16:00 on January 21, 15,935 new infections were recorded on the National COVID-19 Case Management System. Provinces and cities with confirmed cases are as follows: Hà Nội (2,805), Đà Nẵng (964), Hải Phòng (796), Hưng Yên (685), Bến Tre (618), Thanh Hóa (509), Quảng Ngãi (482), Bình Phước (475), Bình Định (420), Bắc Ninh (418), Quảng Ninh (369), Khánh Hòa (346), Quảng Nam (344), Hải Dương (341), Cà Mau (319), Bắc Giang (299), Vĩnh Phúc (280), Thừa Thiên Huế (280), Thái Nguyên (268), Vĩnh Long (263), Trà Vinh (240), Tây Ninh (237), Nghệ An (233), Lâm Đồng (231), HCM City (227), Nam Định (223), Phú Thọ (209), Hòa Bình (208), Thái Bình (187), Ninh Bình (151), Lào Cai (134), Tuyên Quang (129), Hà Nam (128), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (127), Điện Biên (115), Bạc Liêu (113), Lạng Sơn (112), Đắk Nông (101), Gia Lai (99), Sơn La (99), Hà Giang (99), Bình Dương (95), Quảng Bình (90), Hậu Giang (87), Phú Yên (84), Yên Bái (84), Đồng Tháp (81), Kon Tum (73), Kiên Giang (72), … [Read more...] about Update of COVID-19 new cases in Việt Nam on Jan. 21 afternoon

A telecommunication worker set up a telecom hub in Hà Nội. Minister of information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng says it's high time for the country to invest in Cloud Computing, Digital Platform and As Service. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is to focus on the development of 6G – the sixth generation standard currently under development for wireless communications technologies – in 2022. Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng told a conference in Hà Nội earlier this week that it's high time the country get ahead of the development curve and strengthen its digital infrastructure with emphasis on Cloud Computing, Digital Platform and As Service. As the industry's estimate, the digital economy is growing at a pace of US$136 billion a year with more than 64,000 firms. "Việt Nam is to quickly develop its digital infrastructure and technologies with an objective to become one of the world's leading nations in digitalisation with a vision for future … [Read more...] about Việt Nam to start developing 6G in 2022

Some tour guides have moved their tours online. VNS Photo Vân Nguyễn HÀ NỘI — Over 15,500 licensed tour guides have been put out of work for more than two years due to the pandemic and many of them have decided to leave the tourism sector permanently to earn a living elsewhere, according to the Department of Tourism. Hoàng Tuấn Long, a former outbound tour guide, said strict travel restrictions in numerous countries during the pandemic had rendered him jobless for some time. He has had to take up many temporary jobs to make ends meet. Now, he is making a decent living as grilled pork seller and unlikely to return to tourism. “No matter how much I love the job, I cannot work as a tour guide any longer given such a volatile situation. On top of that, returning to tourism means I have to quit my current job. That’s to say all my customer relations and business outlay would go down the drain," Long said. Long noted that most of his friends and colleagues had decided to change … [Read more...] about Việt Nam set for tour guide shortage

PC-COVID app's new feature allows vaccination information from both the medical facility and self-declaration. — VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The latest update of PC-COVID, Việt Nam’s mobile app for COVID-19 prevention and control, allows users to submit their own vaccination information and stores certificates in a wallet. In the new version, users can fill in their vaccination information and upload a photo of the paper certificate themselves, and the self-declared form will then be saved on the app with the note ‘self-reported’. Previously, many people reported that their vaccination status on the app was not correct or not updated. As boosters shots begin to roll out, the newest dose has trouble showing up on the app, even though medical staff have entered data into the system. Some people said that even though they had receive three COVID-19 vaccine shots, none appear on the app, which is frequently required to enter events and buildings. The new feature is therefore a response … [Read more...] about PC-COVID app now allows users to self-updated vaccination status

Vinfast's car assembly plant in Hải Phòng. VNA/VNS Photo Cao Ly Ly HÀ NỘI — Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has advanced at lightning speed over the past decade and has become the hot topic of many domestic and international seminars. But the question remains; how to boost the development of AI companies in Việt Nam? AI has penetrated deeply into many fields with different applications, such as multilingual translator devices, virtual assistants and self-driving cars. During the social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of AI in Việt Nam has gotten more attention in customer care and medical services to reduce direct contact, which helped boost many startups in high technology. Professor Vũ Hà Văn, Scientific Director of VinBigdata Institute. Photo courtesy by the organiser And Professor Vũ Hà Văn, Scientific Director of VinBigdata Institute under Vingroup, believes Việt Nam has good conditions to build AI systems and it will be possible to … [Read more...] about Vietnamese enterprises have the conditions to develop world-class AI

A student has his body temperature checked before entering class at Việt Đức High School in Hoàn Kiếm District of Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Tùng HÀ NỘI — A total of 15,935 new COVID-19 patients were reported in Việt Nam on Friday, raising the total number to 2,110,737. Thirty-four were imported infections and the remaining domestic. New cases were reported in 62 out of 63 provinces and cities across the country. A total of 10,912 transmissions were detected in the community. The capital city of Hà Nội again led the list, with 2,805 cases. The other localities that reported new infections were Đà Nẵng (964), Hải Phòng (796), Hưng Yên (685), Bến Tre (618), Thanh Hóa (509), Quảng Ngãi (482), Bình Phước (475), Bình Định (420), Bắc Ninh (418), Quảng Ninh (369), Khánh Hòa (346), Quảng Nam (344), Hải Dương (341), Cà Mau (319), Bắc Giang (299), Vĩnh Phúc (280), Thừa Thiên Huế (280), Thái Nguyên (268), Vĩnh Long (263), Trà Vinh (240), Tây Ninh (237), Nghệ An (233), Lâm Đồng … [Read more...] about 15,935 new coronavirus cases recorded on Friday

A member of the Chàm Island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board releases an endangered tortoise. Seven turtles were rescued by local farmers in 2021. — Photo courtesy of Chàm Islands MPA CHÀM ISLANDS  — The Chàm Island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board and Quảng Nam provincial rangers have released an endangered turtle to the local forest, three days after it was captured by a local farmer and handed to the MPA. Huỳnh Thùy Hương, an MPA communication employee, told Việt Nam News that the Chinese strip-neck turtle ( Mauremys sinensis ) was found by Trương Công Tánh at a paddy field in Điện Bàn Town in Quảng Nam Province on January 14, who gave the turtle to the MPA. The 1.5kg, 24cm shell turtle, which is listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a critically endangered species, was returned to the wild on January 20. Chinese strip-neck turtle (Mauremys sinensis) -- a critically endangered (CR) species listed in the … [Read more...] about Endangered turtles returned to wild

HÀ NỘI — More than 30 antiques and documents bearing images of tigers are on display at the National Museum of Vietnamese History in downtown Hà Nội. Titled “Tigers in Ancient Vietnamese Fine Arts”, the exhibition celebrates the upcoming Lunar New Year -- the Year of the Tiger which falls on February 1 this year. The event is hosted by the museum, the Hùng Temple Historical Relic Site and private collectors. “The image of tigers has accompanied and made distinguished features to the history of Vietnamese fine arts,” Nguyễn Thị Thu Hoan, deputy director of the museum, told Việt Nam News . A visitor takes a photo of a stone tiger statue at Trần Thủ Độ Tomb in the northern province of Thái Bình, which dated back to 13th century. — VNS Photo Lê Hương The tiger image is introduced here according to the historical period and materials, she said. "In the Đông Sơn civilisation (800 years BC) period, the tiger image was associated with respect and worship of the power and … [Read more...] about Tiger images in antiques displayed