Japan might need to recruit 30,000 foreign Information Technology (IT) engineers in the next four years to work in the country especially from India and Vietnam.

 Viet Nam needs a road map for full termination of second generation network (2G) services and adopting 4G as around 65 per cent of Vietnamese are still using 2G.

Deputy PM Vu Van Ninh has asked the Finance Ministry to complete a draft resolution on tax incentives for IT firms and collect suggestions from relevant ministries and the Ministry of Justice for submission to the Government this month.

VietNamNet Bridge - The plan to build Da Nang Information Technology Park, which is part of Vietnam’s dream to create its own Silicon Valley, remains on paper. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has increased the use of information technology in public administration, helping usher in e-governance, according to a Government report.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A young man from the Chil ethnic minority has dedicated himself to shepherding his community into the digital age by providing free computer lessons for children.

Around 91 per cent of businesses in Viet Nam expect to virtualise at least 30 per cent of their IT infrastructure in the next two year, according to a survey conducted by VMware Inc .

VietNamNet Bridge – The growing tendency of multi-nationals to relocate their factories from neighboring countries to Vietnam has led to increased demand for medium- and high-ranking personnel.

VietNamNet Bridge – Information Technology (IT) applications can help reduce traffic accidents by half and considerably ease traffic flow, a leading figure in the IT industry says.

The majority (81 percent) of agencies and organizations in Vietnam allow their workers access to local networks with their personal mobile devices, while 74 percent do not have any solution to ensure information security and control mobile devices.

VietNamNet Bridge – The upcoming Asian-Oceania regional summit on information and communication technology is expected to jump-start the application of ICT in the agriculture sector, organisers said on Thursday.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Educators have suggested that informatics be added to the list of compulsory subjects at schools but principals are opposed to the idea.

The emergence and expansion of international technology corporations in Vietnam in the past two years shows an important shift in investment. The Vice President of the Vietnam Association of Foreign Investment Enterprise talks about this trend.

VietNamNet Bridge – A student at HCM City University of Agriculture and Forestry recently spent seven hours trying to register for a course on the school's website. He finally gave up, and later discovered that the class had closed

VietNamNet Bridge – Increasing numbers of exciting business start-ups in Vietnam are grabbing the attention of adventurous investors who are looking to further ignite the local and regional merger and acquisition market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With the Prime Minister having allowing state agencies to use outsourced services, information technology (IT) firms hope they will get more jobs in the time to come.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 77 per cent of young employees surveyed in Viet Nam have used their smartphones to manage business affairs during the past year, according to a study organised by leading cloud service provider VMware.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Information Technology (IT) sector earned US$37 billion in revenues in 2013, up 48 per cent year on year, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has estimated.

Price cuts on smartphones have hurt some distributors as potential buyers have canceled purchase plans for fear that prices will drop even further.