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Sacombank wins Asset magazine Best Bank Vietnam award 2020. — Photo courtesy of Sacombank Sacombank has won for a fourth time the Best Bank Vietnam award from the Asset magazine. The annual awards honour outstanding businesses and organisations in the banking, finance, treasury, and capital markets who contribute to the development of the financial sector in Asia. The award jury hailed Sacombank for its 2020 strategy for attracting investment and customers and developing services and improving service quality. The bank’s charter capital and network place it among the top five in Viet Nam. It began digital transformation five years ago and has invested hundreds of billions of dong in modern technology platforms. — VNS …

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Two Vietnamese scientists have been listed in the 2018 edition of Asian Scientist 100 , an annual listing of the region’s top academics by the Singapore-based magazine. Prof. Dr. Phan Thanh Son Nam from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Sum from Quy Nhon University were honored in the list for their accomplishments in chemistry and mathematics, respectively. The Asian Scientist 100 list, which honors Asia’s top 100 researchers, academics and innovators, has been compiled and published by Singapore-based science and technology magazine Asian Scientist since 2016. Each of the 100 honorees is qualified by having won a national or international prize in 2017 for their scientific research or leadership, according to the magazine’s website. “Together, they represent the best of what Asia has to offer the scientific community at large,” an introduction to the list reads. Both of the Vietnamese scientists were honored thanks to their winning of the 2017 Ta Quang Buu Awards, which is awarded by Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology to local scientists with remarkable contribution to fundamental research in natural sciences and technology. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Sum is listed in the 2018 edition of Asian Scientist 100 in this screen grab taken from the magazine’s website. Dr. Phan Thanh Son Nam was the lead author of an excellent work on molecular catalysts in organic transformation. Specifically, his work explored the application of metal-organic frameworks as catalysts for the synthesis of propargylamine organic matters. The study, which Nam co-authored with four of his Vietnamese colleagues, has been cited 21 times in scientific research globally. Meanwhile, Dr. Nguyen Sum was honored for his work on topology, a branch of mathematics dealing with properties of space that are preserved under continuous deformations. Sum’s work was praised for its solving of a unique case of the …

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Copyright protection and content production are among challenges facing local media outlets. Ngay nay becomes the first e-magazine in Vietnam charging readers when it launched services on March 29, pinning hope on a possible trend of paid content in the country whose Internet users account for roughly 69% of total population. With “Special Today”, the column of in-depth stories written by experts, scientists, and experienced journalists presented in the form of the latest journalism technology is aimed to give readers the best experience. The media outlet will offer different packs on the week, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and yearly basis with the maximum cost of VND180,000 (US$7.8) paid via apps, ATMs, and bank cards. Collecting readership fees for digital content has been a prominent trend in the world’s press for the past 10 years, and one of many ways to diversify media revenues in the context of falling print and advertising revenues, said Le Quoc Minh, deputy general director of the Vietnam News Agency. Nguyen Thanh Lam, head of the Authority of Press under the Ministry of Information and Communications, said Ngay nay’s digital subscriptions mark a milestone in the country’s press industry, securing the survival in the current difficulties. He regards the paid media model as a difficult way for the industry to find its true readers, who have lost their habit of paying money to buy printed newspapers, now can be willing to pay and read exactly what they needs, not be “disturbed” by a sea of false information. Possible trend in Vietnam? The step by Ngay Nay has stirred up public attention and aspirations to follow the move that is expected to become popular in Vietnam where it is a common habit of accessing media information freely amid the popularity of social networks. Ngay Nay is the first e-magazine in Vietnam charging readers but the first paid subscriptions was launched in 2018 by the Vietnam News Agency – the official state-run …

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