Monkey Junior, the English learning app which won first prize at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2016, has just received Google start-up financial support funding of USD100,000.Monkey Junior is Vietnam’s only representative selected for this fund among 24 other projects and businesses from 14 countries. Dao Xuan Hoang (second from left), Monkey Junior founder receives first prize at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2016 This is the 5th Google Launchpad Accelerator programme.Dao Xuan Hoang, Monkey Junior founder, said that Google support would help his app be more widely-known internationally.The Launchpad Accelerator is a six-month acceleration programme that matches top growth-stage startups from emerging ecosystems with the best of Google people, network, and advanced technologies - to help scale products. Besides the USD100,000, selected firms will be also offered the two weeks of all-expenses-paid training at Google HQ in Silicon Valley. They also have the chance to meet with … [Read more...] about Vietnamese English learning app gets Google’s support
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Samsung’s Vietnamese subsidiaries make $19 billion profit
Samsung Group has just announced the detailed profit figures of its subsidiaries in the first nine months of 2017. The four Vietnamese subsidiaries, Samsung Bac Ninh (SEV), Samsung Thai Nguyen (SEVT), Samsung Display Vietnam (SDV), and Samsung Electronics HCMC CE Complex (SEHC), earned $31.4 billion of revenue and $4.6 billion of profit.According to TheLeader.vn, Samsung Bac Ninh, the factory dedicated to the production and assembly of cell phones hit $12.5 billion of revenue, including $1.53 billion of profit, up 50 per cent against the same period last year.Samsung Thai Nguyen, the factory dedicated to the production of electronic components, grew drastically with $18.6 billion of revenue, making an increase of 27 per cent, and $2.32 billion of profit, an increase of 30 per cent compared to the same period in 2016. This is the subsidiary reaching the highest profit in the Samsung Group system due to being exempt from tax for the first four years of operation in Vietnam.The … [Read more...] about Samsung’s Vietnamese subsidiaries make $19 billion profit
Vietnamese stars to attend Asian Television Awards in Singapore
Actors and actresses from the Vietnamese version of the American TV comedy-drama Glee (Glee Vietnam) will attend the 22nd Asian Television Awards 2017 (ATA) in Singapore on December 1.They are Angela Phuong Trinh, Rocker Nguyen, Huu Vi, CindyV, and Bich Ngoc.Launched in 1996, the Asian Television Awards is one of the Asian TV industry’s most significant and celebrated events, recognizing excellence in programming, production, and performance. VOV … [Read more...] about Vietnamese stars to attend Asian Television Awards in Singapore
Korean tourism is particularly interested in Vietnamese market
In 2017, KTO also organized many programs to build the theme products such as "Korean Tourism Month for Women - Celebrating Vietnamese Women Day". At the mean time organizing more than 20 seminars and workshops to introduce Korean tourism in general, local tourism and specific types of tourism such as tourism reward, medical tourism in particular. … [Read more...] about Korean tourism is particularly interested in Vietnamese market
Vietnamese air hostess arrested for gold smuggling
A Vietnamese air hostess has been arrested at NoiBai International Airport in Hanoi while illegally carrying more than 3 kilosof gold to South Korea according to the airport's Customs Department.Vietnam Airlines' former flight attendant Hoang Thi Ngoc Anh, 34, wasarrested on July 27 together with a 30-year-old man named Nguyen NgocSang after they were found hiding the gold under a seat in a Vietnam Airlines flight numbered A144which departed from Noi Bai to South Korea’s Incheon International Airport at12.25am on July 27.Anh and Sang earlier passed the security checkpoints with the four gold bars wrapped in a black plastic bag unnoticed. The two suspects told police they did not declarethe gold bars to customs officials and planned to sell the bars in South Koreawhere prices are higher than in Vietnam.Last March a pilot and a flight attendant ofVietnam Airlines were arrested in South Korea for smuggling 6 kilos of goldwhen entering Gimhae International Airport in Busan City. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese air hostess arrested for gold smuggling