Startup Vietnam Frontier - Australia (SVF-AU) and the Vietnam Australia Innovation Network Inc (NIC-AU) have launched the 2021 Hack4Growth Australia, with the aim of promoting the ecosystem for innovative start-ups.

Authorities in central Da Nang city have adopted a host of key measures to speed up economic restructuring in 2020-2025, focusing on strengthening hi-tech and supporting industries and IT development in connection with building startups and innovative urban areas and smart cities.

The EU Industry Week 2021, being held on March 22 and 23 both online and in Binh Duong Province, is aimed at providing a platform to introduce green manufacturing technologies, where state-of-the-art and future perspectives of sustainable manufacturing will be discussed and new technologies and solutions presented.

The third round of the Innovation Partnership Grants under the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Aus4Innovation Programme has opened, targeting initiatives under priority targets of the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology to promote post-COVID-19 recovery.

Investors are confident in the potential of Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem, and believe the country will become a big investment market in the region and the world, according to head of the Vietnam representative office of Genesia Ventures, an investment fund of Japan, Hoang Thi Kim Dung.

Vietnam tops the list of destinations for venture investors for the next 12 months.

VOV.VN - Despite changes in half a century, the main role of ABU, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, is to promote solidarity, peaceful cooperation, mutual understanding and partnership between countries, organisations and people, says PhD Javad Mottaghi, ABU Secretary General.

Vietnam targets raising the proportion of trained workers to 35-40 % by 2030 under a support programme for labour market development newly issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, both of them members of the Party Central Committee, on January 28 called for greater investment in science-technology to push national digital transformation, e-Government, and the digital economy forward.

An environment monitoring project for mangrove aquaculture (AQUAM) in Ca Mau was kicked off on January 15 by the Mekong Delta province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Australia’s University of Queensland and the Greenfield Consulting and Development Ltd (GFD).