The 14th Vietnam International Plastics and Rubber Industry Exhibition (VietnamPlas – VietnamRubber 2014) opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City on November 5.
Vietnamese enterprises need to take prompt actions to develop and protect their trademarks in overseas markets, especially when intellectual property rights are increasingly important in the global trend, experts said at a workshop in Hanoi on November 5.
Forty-five percent of Vietnamese smartphone owners used their device during their last purchase, the highest rate in the region, according to a recent study carried out by Internet giant Google.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) is the largest market for footwear exported from the southern province of Dong Nai, with a turnover of 478 million USD during the first ten months of this year.
As intellectual property rights are becoming increasingly important in international trade, experts urged Vietnamese companies to pay attention to overseas trademark protection registration.
The eighth Mekong Delta Economic Cooperation Forum (MDEC) kicked off in Soc Trang province on November 5, attracting the attention from ministries, sectors, localities, businesses and international investors and organisations.
The Vietnam Information Security Day 2014 with the theme of information security and national sovereignty will kick off in Ho Chi Minh City on November 19.
Horizon 2020, a programme offering opportunities to young scientists to study and work at major scientific and technological centres in Europe, marked its official arrival in Vietnam at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh city on November 5.
Vietnam’s ministries, sectors and their development partners need to promote cooperation and information sharing so as to swiftly achieve the country’s development targets set forth in 2013, said Victoria Kwakwa, Country Director of the World Bank in Vietnam.
The capital city of Hanoi is striving to better its policies on gender equality, and intensify inspections to stop gender selection in an effort to reduce the current high sex ratio at birth.