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Prithvi Puttaraju, founder and CEO of edvin.ai What originally brought you to Vietnam? I first moved to Vietnam in 2009 when I founded Infonam with a vision of creating a unique software company servicing Silicon Valley customers. Having seen the globalisation of two giant economies in India and China, I saw that Vietnam had the perfect demographic data. It was clear to me that Vietnam was the next growth country. With investments from Silicon Valley, the who’s who of the tech field, I moved to Vietnam to build Infonam. I ended up staying here for 10 years and built a 400-plus-strong high-tech team that was responsible for executing some of the hardest projects in software, which I exited in 2015. How did the idea of edvin come along? I was in Scotland for about three years between 2019 and 2022 during the pandemic, and it gave me space for reflection and inspiration to think about what I was going to do next. The interest to come back to Vietnam to build … [Read more...] about The new era of edtech in Vietnam

Vietnam and South Korea issued a joint statement to upgrade their bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, as part of Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc's ongoing visit to the East Asian country. With strong belief in the future of cooperation, President Phuc and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol announced the joint statement after their talks on Monday, opening a new stage of development for the relationship between the two countries. The elevation of bilateral ties, from the strategic partnership that has developed effectively since 2009, was announced one day after Phuc arrived in South Korea for a three-day official visit at the invitation of President Yoon. In the joint statement, the two countries agreed to strengthen political and diplomatic cooperation as well as defense and security. The two sides agreed to further promote visits and exchanges between the two countries' senior leaders, while expanding and developing the dialogue … [Read more...] about Vietnam, S.Korea issue joint statement, lifting ties to comprehensive strategic partnership

Digital economy, information, and telecommunication are vital to driving the bilateral economic partnership. South Korea is willing to share its technological expertise to boost its economic partnership with Vietnam in the next 30 years, Choo Kyung-ho, Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea, said on December 6. Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (center) joins Vietnam-South Korea Business Forum on December 6. Photo: Vietnam News Agency Choo Kyung-ho made his statement at the Vietnam-Korea Business Forum held in South Korea with the participation of Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, senior officials, and more than 500 representatives of businesses of the two countries. He expressed his hope that the two nations would see further cooperation in developing green growth, a digital economy, new industries, and exchanging technology and manpower. He also urged the Vietnamese and South Korean governments to … [Read more...] about South Korea, Vietnam ready to boost tech cooperation