The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will launch K-Tech College, a programme that offers training programs in software and provides job placement opportunities with Korean startups to talented students from developing nations, including Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Australian Government’s funding scheme – Innovation Partnership Grants under the Aus4Innovation program, will set aside AUD2 million to fund tech-based innovation in Vietnam’s agriculture sector.

The National Innovation Centre (NIC)'s new establishment in Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park on the outskirts of Hanoi will be officially inaugurated in October this year, heard a press conference on August 15.

VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, has called for businesses from the US' Oakland city to invest in the southern city’s hi-tech park to produce chips, semiconductors, and new material technologies.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s rice export prices have continuously set new records over recent times and exceeded the US$550 per tonne mark following India's official ban placed on rice exports.

VOV.VN - The United States Mission to Vietnam, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on July 27 announced a US$32 million contract to the U.S. firm Tetra Tech to continue the cleanup of dioxin-contaminated soil in and around the Bien Hoa Air Base.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Israel should consider science-technology and high-tech agriculture as priority areas for future co-operation, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang said during talks held on July 25 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Around 50 investment funds and 200 start-ups and tech companies will participate in InnoEx 2023, an international innovation event to take place in HCM City on August 24-25.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung has met with representatives of the US government agencies, organisations, businesses, investment funds and large corporations to promote cooperation in innovation and technology, research, exchange experiences and attract resources to building an international financial centre and attract investment to high-tech projects in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the UK had a working session with the Irish Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) in Dublin on July 10 in a bid to step up the two countries' cooperation in education, science, and technology.