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According to an estimate by the National Innovation Centre under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, digital technology may bring Vietnam more than $74 billion by 2030, which is comparable to 27 per cent of Vietnam’s GDP in 2020. In Vietnam, the passage of this development might paradoxically result in the loss of a substantial number of current jobs. Conundrum ahead with robotics rise, source: shutterstock Hoang Nam Tien, chairman of FPT Telecom, predicted that approximately 70 per cent of the total 5.4 million Vietnamese workers will lose their jobs within the next decade. This includes 2.7 million textile workers, 1.7 million leather and footwear labourers, and nearly one million electronic assembly staff. Tien said, “Humans cannot compete with robots in terms of labour output and work hours. A series of robots have been imported into Vietnam in recent times. Before 2020, many manufacturers were still unsure about deploying them.” The recent pandemic has … [Read more...] about Conundrum ahead with robotics rise

Ben Hoang Nguyen, a Vietnamese American from Las Vegas, Nevada, the U.S. created an online platform that helps connect students with employers in their local communities. Nguyen, a teacher at Sunrise Mountain High School in Las Vegas, Nevada brought home a grand prize of US$200,000 from The Big Idea Challenge: A Competition for Educational Innovation hosted by Nevada-based nonprofits The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and The Engelstad Foundation. "This was an incredible experiment that gave everyone the opportunity to come forward to make things better," Kris Engelstad, a trustee of the Engelstad Foundation, wrote on The Big Idea Challenge website. "And indeed, so many Nevadans did just that. Our winners have embarked on a long journey to win and receive funding. We cannot wait to see all they do to take their ideas - and education in our state - to new heights." Julie Pippenger, chief operating officer of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, also lauded the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese American teacher wins US prize for teen-centered job app

Statues of cats with many expressions on a flower street in Da Nang City, central Vietnam have gone viral and made headlines on social networks. The Da Nang flower street stretches more than 300 meters from the west bank of the Han River to the APEC Park. Along a section on the west bank of the Han River near the end of the Dragon Bridge, there are statues of traditional and modern cats with many postures and expressions. The highlight of the flower street is a lighting system on robotic cats. Cute cat statues have excited netizens who have made multiple witty comments on the cat statues, such as cats hold gold ingots and wear traditional clothes, cats wear tintinnabula, modern cats wear bow ties, fat cats smile and half close the eyes, cats do yoga, or long-legged model cats. Statues of a cat family in traditional clothes with gold ingots on their hands. Photo: Moon Black / Tuoi Tre Statues of cats doing yoga. Photo: Moon Black / Tuoi Tre … [Read more...] about Cute cat statues in Da Nang go viral

Thuy Thi Le Luong - Managing director, Cisco Vietnam Cybersecurity and IT evolution Connections between people, devices, and data are ever-expanding, with billions of open, shared, and accessible touchpoints multiplying in a hybrid work, cloud-first world. The network is the nervous system that allows everything to work together. And while this has created limitless possibilities, it’s also introduced incredible complexity. As organisations and users become more distributed, the demand for anywhere, anytime access to applications requires the transformation of networks to deliver uninterrupted connectivity while maintaining security. This is especially as just over 80 per cent of respondents in Vietnam to a Cisco survey believe that having connectivity issues regularly is career-limiting for remote workers, yet around 20 per cent say their company still needs the right networking infrastructure. Predictive networks Competing in today’s digital landscape means one … [Read more...] about Anticipating the top business technology trends for 2023

In addition to the country's economic potential, many foreign business owners say their love for Vietnam is what keeps them here “paying it forward” by improving the country’s national brand and human resource training. Holiday turned home Rafael Masters landed in Vietnam 14 years ago. A recent graduate, the British national had planned to travel the world and experience different cultures. To finance such a trip, he planned to work as an English teacher. “I intended to teach for a year and then return home. What actually happened was that I began to fall in love with the culture, the country, and even teaching in Vietnam. “It's an incredibly exciting feeling to see children of all ages being given educational tools and then developing and building themselves with those tools,” he said. Rafael Masters, founder of Vulcan Augmetics, a start-up that makes electronic prosthetics for the disabled. Photo : Binh Minh / Tuoi Tre Some of Masters' first students in … [Read more...] about Foreign business founders keen on Vietnam’s development potential

Vietnamese developers recently brought ‘Hera’ - an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by a Vietnamese startup – on a tour in the U.S. where they showed potential partners just how impressive Vietnamese tech had become. Despite it being small enough to fit into a backpack, Hera can carry up to 15 kilograms and be assembled in just a few minutes. The very first order Hera is the brainchild of Vietnamese engineer, Dr. Luong Viet Quoc, the founder and CEO of Vietnam-based RealTime Robotics Inc. (RtR). Dr. Quoc and his team spent six years and hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong developing Hera. "It's really excellent," said JT Von Lunen, CEO of RMUS Inc. (the U.S.), who recently took Hera for a test flight in Colorado. RMUS Inc. specializes in selling drones across the North American market. Von Lunen shared that he was particularly impressed with Hera’s ability to carry such a heavy payload, as well as its hour-long flight capacity. The Hera unmanned … [Read more...] about Vietnamese drones land in world market

Japanese groups to pour hundreds of millions into projects in Quang Ninh Notably, the Tenma group from Japan has plans to invest $150 million in a factory to produce plastic injection moulds in the province. Hirohiko Hirono, CEO of Tenma, explained that the factory is planned to cover an area of 18 hectares in Song Khoai Industrial Park (IP). Within the framework of the meeting with leaders of Quang Ninh People’s Committee, Hitoshi Kimura, managing director of Castem Co., shared the plan to develop a $14 million metal casting factory which will cover an area of two hectares. Acting Chairman of Quang Ninh People’s Committee Cao Huy Tuong said that the province will create the most favourable conditions possible for investors, including land clearance, investment procedures, and other incentives. Earlier on January 13, Yaskawa Electric Group from Japan worked with Huy to present a feasibility report on a $100 million investment to build an automatic machine tool factory in … [Read more...] about Japanese groups to pour hundreds of millions into projects in Quang Ninh