ESET®, a global pioneer in proactive protection for more than two decades has recently released the ESET Vietnam Cyber-Savviness Report 2015 showing that users in Vietnam have low cybersecurity awareness and do not take adequate preventive measures, which could make them vulnerable to cyber threats. 

A favourable investment climate is putting Vietnam on the radar of many transnational corporations drawn by tariff perks, cheap labour and political stability. Thanh Tung reports.

Vietnam is witnessing a growing trend in the application of future technologies such as Big Data and Cloud computing into business activities.

To keep up with the latest technology trend, MobiFone will provide Big Data services next year. Nguyen Bao Long deputy general director of MobiFone spoke with VIR’s Thanh Van about this first-hand experience and the firm’s business plan.

Many international companies have come to the International Trade Fair for Construction & Building Technology, Equipment, Machinery, Materials and Mining launched on December 2 in order to look for opportunities to provide products and services to Vietnam’s construction and mining sectors.

Amata Vietnam will host a ceremony in December to celebrate two decades of  successful operations in Vietnam. 

More incentives are needed to lure potential foreign investors, many of whom acknowledge Vietnam’s potential but remain on the fence.

The Vietnam Business Forum 2015 and the Vietnam Development Partnership Forum 2015 will open this week as a platform for the Vietnamese government and the business and donor communities to discuss measures to improve the nation’s investment climate and socio-economic development amid the increasingly deeper global integration.

After five years of implementation, Nescafé Plan- a cooperative programme between the world's leading nutrition, health, and wellness company Nestlé, Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (WASI), and other partners- has contributed to improving the quality and raising coffee yield by 14 per cent per hectare (ha). 

The increase in foreign investment and the constrictions on foreign companies to develop in Vietnam through representative offices or having commercial presence in the country is forecasted to result in an increasing demand for international standard “offices for lease”.