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Impressive achievements According to Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the agriculture sector faced many difficulties and challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which directly affected production and export, import and consumption of agricultural products. The combined efforts of the Party, the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, localities, the business community and farmers helped the agriculture and rural development sector realize dual goals, both increasing growth and effectively combating the pandemic. As a result, the sector’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.65 percent, total export turnover reached US$41.25 billion, over 62 percent of communes achieved the status of new-style rural communes, forest coverage rate reached 42 percent, rural residents’ annual income reached VND43 million per capita. In terms of cultivation, the crop structure was converted more efficiently by promoting intensive farming and application of advanced science and technology, especially for key crops, and controlling and increasing the use of new and high quality seed varieties. Rice production output reached 42.7 million tonnes, not only fully meeting the demand for domestic consumption but also meeting the needs of processing for animal feed and export. In particular, high-quality rice accounted for over 85 percent of exported rice, raising the average export price from US$440 per tonne in 2019 to US$496 in 2020. The year 2020 saw a restructuring of the agricultural sector, improved production scale and level and a strong shift to commodity production on the basis of each region’s advantages. Notably, the consumption market for agricultural, forestry and fishery products continued to develop, and the domestic market was expanded significantly. Nine commodity groups maintained an export turnover of over US$1 billion, with five recording a turnover of over US$3 billion, including timber and wood products, …

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Institutional reform and improving the business environment reflect the Government's enduring determination over the years, benefiting people and businesses. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh at a conference to review the work of the industry and trade sector in 2020. Mr. Nguyen Quoc Dung, Head of Business Department, Electricity Vietnam group (EVN) still remembers the bad feeling of a few years ago. At that time, the electricity access index of Vietnam ranked 156 out of 170, the lowest in the world. “I was shocked and didn't understand why. We tried to do well but were underestimated by the world,” recalled Dung. After doing research, he discovered that EVN had long been ignoring global standards. "We no longer compared ourselves with ourselves anymore but compared ourselves to the world to know who we are, where we are." That approach was supported by EVN's leaders and implemented for the whole system. As a result, the electricity access index reached 27/190 countries ranked by the World Bank. The remarkable rise of EVN and some other areas was thanks to the Government's steadfast determination through Resolution 19, now Resolution 02, which put pressure on ministries, sectors and local governments. It was a long process of awareness improvement. In 2009, American professor Michael Porter was invited to help Vietnam build international standards for business environment assessment. However, a Government leader at that time did not agree when saying that Vietnam must build its own set of criteria. The director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, Nguyen Dinh Cung, who was assigned to draft the criteria, was completely stuck. "Three or four years passed and we could not do anything about it," he recalled. Only when Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam received that task and asked to use international standards (because Vietnam did not have methodology and data) was the content of …

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Following the qualification round, ACEBEAR and BabyPhD from Vietnam, together with eight strong teams from the USA, Russia, the Republic of Korea, India and Germany, will vie for the top prize in the eight-hour finals, set to be held online at the competition’s website https://grandprix.whitehatvn.com/ on December 27. Hosted by Vietnam under the theme of Vietnam Today, WhiteHat Grand Prix 06 has a format consisting of Jeopardy, Attack/Defence and WhiteHat Bug Bounty programmes, finding vulnerabilities on important information systems and popular software in Vietnam. In the final round, after passing the Jeopardy challenge, 10 teams will enter the Attack/Defence phase in a simulated environment. The organisers have built a Security Management System that uses real hardware devices for teams to fight in real life situations. The mission of the teams, on the one hand, is to attack and exploit the other team's vulnerabilities in order to disable their security camera system and detect motion and surveillance lights, while at the same time protecting their own systems. Successful completion of the exam requires teams with practical skills as well as a deep understanding of infrastructure security, application security, encryption and web security. The top 3 finishers in the finals will be rewarded with VND230 million (US$10,000), VND45 million (US$2,000) and VND23 million (US$1,000), respectively. In addition, teams have the chance to get bounties for each bug they find in the WhiteHat Bug Bounty. Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Director of Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, said: “In the work of ensuring network safety and security, experts play a key role. Contests like the WhiteHat Grand Prix help promote the development of human resources in cybersecurity in Vietnam, while affirming the country’s reputation in the international cybersecurity community.” The WhiteHat Grand Prix was held for the first time at …

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