Sci tech environment

SMBs in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam among top targets of phishing in Southeast Asia Phishing is on the rise with more than 1.6 million attempts to transfer users to phishing pages via links within e-mails blocked by its software in the first six months of the year, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky reported. … [Read more...] about ‘Make in Vietnam’ tool helps find ransomware

HCM City left gloomy amid heightened levels of air pollution Air quality in HCM City worsened once again on the morning of June 26 with the air quality index (AQI) rising to 161, a level which is considered to be harmful to people’s health, following an evaluation of monitoring application AirVisual. … [Read more...] about VN cities needs strict measures to persuade residents to abandon old polluting motorbikes

The young girl’s campaign, if nothing else, has brought the issue much-needed attention and pushed the problems of rapid development and environmental ignorance to the forefront of discussion. Accelerated growth picks people up from poverty, but weighs the other side of the scale with more construction, production, vehicles and subsequent emissions. … [Read more...] about Solutions needed as Hanoi chokes under smog

Inspectors also discovered cases in which institutions and individuals had abnormally high numbers of simcards, registered many times. Telcoms had not checked to find out if the sims were used under current regulations and for legitimate purposes. According to the Telecommunications Authority, the major problem is the lack of awareness of telcos and users. … [Read more...] about Network operators that provide ‘trash’ sims will not receive licenses for new services

Binh Phuoc (VNA) – Authorities of the southern province of Binh Phuoc and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) put into operation an Intelligent Operations Centre (IOC) at a ceremony on September 9. The centre initially pilots ten functions, including monitoring socio-economic criteria, public administration, transport, urban order, land management, environment sanitation, health, education, tourism, and hotline operation. Tran Tue Hien, Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee, said as from September 9, all local data would be frequently updated serving the authorities’ management on socio-economic development, security, and order, in line with the Government’s Resolution 17. The resolutionn issued on March 7 last year, covers a number of key tasks and solutions related to e-governance development for 2019 – 2020 with a vision toward 2025. VNPT has so far signed agreements on IT and telecommunications cooperation with 55 … [Read more...] about Binh Phuoc opens intelligent operations centre