It’s obvious that CMMi (capability maturity model integration) helps software firms increase their competitive edges. However, the requirement for CMMi certificate has put big difficulties for software firms.

The Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) has unwillingly got involved in a trouble when SaigonTel, a telco, has denounced VTC of appropriating its US$3.9 million, which is the capital contribution to a joint venture between the two parties.

Analysts now bet on the fate of Air Mekong after hearing that the private airline cannot pay for fuel. Pacific Airlines still has reported a loss for the last five consecutive years of operation.

The current policy on VAT incentives turns out to maltreat software firms, while the corporate income tax incentives have been benefiting foreign firms. Meanwhile, there has been no personal income tax for software workers.

Nguyen Duc Tien, a scientist from the Agricultural Electromechanical Post-harvesting Technology Institute and his associates have successfully invented the technology to make Gamma Oryzanol from rice bran.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has been mobilizing all possible resources for domestic garbage treatment. People-founded garbage collection units now handle 70 percent of the domestic garbage in the city.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has vowed to develop supporting industries, but it still does not know what it should do to obtain that goal.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology has announced the groups of products that will be given priority to be developed in order to establish a commodity market with Vietnamese brands.

The leave of First Solar should not be seen as the sign of the US investment decrease in Vietnam, because General Electric (GE), one of the US leading groups, has announced the establishment of a high technology center in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – They are the Vietnamese people who have set themselves up in business, settled overseas and become millionaires.