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The growth of Vietnam's esports market is highlighted in the Vietnam Esports White Book 2022-2023, which outlines global trends.

The Hanoi Times - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung officially launched the Vietnam government web portal on Saturday, which although it was actually finished in 2006, took another four years to connect government ministries and agencies.

The Hanoi Times - Vietnamese individuals and businesses are now able to put their goods up for auction o­n U.S. popular e-commerce site eBay via its Vietnamese website www.ebay.vn, according to eBay’s Vietnamese partner.

The Hanoi Times - Early next year, Vietnam is set to open up its first television channel that is solely dedicated to helping prevent natural disasters.

The Hanoi Times - E-customs procedures will be applied at all customs units by the end of 2011, said the Hanoi Customs Department at a seminar o­n September 8 in the capital. 

The Hanoi Times - The Vietnamese Talents’ Forum was organized o­n September 12 in Hanoi, opening a dialogue for different generations of talented people to share experience of how to become citizens of good heart, sharp vision and high intelligence. 

The Hanoi Times - The Son La hydroelectric power plant will likely go online in late 2010, two years earlier than planned, according to its owner – state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN).

Vietnam is ready to host the world’s largest information technology (IT) event, organised biennially by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), the World IT Forum (WITFOR) 2009. At the third meeting of the National Organising Committee (NOC) for WITFOR in Hanoi o­n Aug. 14, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Minh Hong, who is also Head of the NOC, expressed his pleasure at the efforts made by relevant ministries and agencies in preparation for the forum. Themed “ICT for Sustainable Development”, the fourth WITFOR will be held in Hanoi from Aug. 26-28. According to the organising board, more than 1,000 delegates from 70 countries and international organisations, including experts, managers, policy makers and IT business administrators, are expected to take part in the forum. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, WITFOR 2009 Honorary President, will attend the opening ceremony. On the sidelines of the forum, there will be many activities, including the “Computer for Life” programme which will present 307 computers to those for whom IT is difficult to access in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh cities and in Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang, Son La, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces. Vietnam is the first Asian country to host such event. The country is expected to boost its profile in the world ITC sector

The Hanoi Times - Although Vietnam has a treasure of abundant and diverse sources of pharmaceutical materials, including nearly 4,000 herbal plants, the country’s pharmaceutical industry currently depends o­n material imported from China to make up medicines. To exploit its own resources, it is necessary for Vietnam to boost investments in hi-tech extraction technologies.

The Hanoi Times - The World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR), under the theme “ICT for Sustainable Development,” will open in Hà Nội o­n August 26-28, with the presence of about 1,500 ICT Ministers, policymakers, researchers, enterprises, and non-governmental organizations from nearly 100 countries and territories.

The Hanoi Times - The 6th Vietnam ICT in Finance 2009, co-organized by the International Data Group (IDG Vietnam), the Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics (DFIS), and the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance (MoF) will be held on September 23-24 at Meliá Hanoi.

The Hanoi Times - Seventy-five percent of scientists are over 50 years old was information announced during a workshop o­n associating scientific research with the creation of new PhDs held in Hanoi.

The Hanoi Times - Vietnamese cyber security firm Bkis said it has found that attacks launched o­n websites in South Korea and the US earlier this month appear to have come from a master server in the UK.

The Hanoi Times - Microsoft Viet Nam will develop IT solutions for the operations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoF), as well as to help ensure compliance with the Law o­n Intellectual Property and Viet Nam’s international commitments o­n copyright and software licensing, under a memorandum of understanding signed yesterday with the ministry’s Information and Communication Centre.

The Hanoi Times - Demand for rhinoceros horns in Asia in general, and Vietnam in particular, has driven poaching to a 15-year-high and pushed the animals perilously close to extinction, major conversation groups have warned

The Hanoi Times - A transport strategy to enable a sustainable environment by 2020 calls o­n half of the population of major cities to use public transport by the end of the next decade.

The Hanoi Times - Vietnam is greatly affected by climate change, therefore, how to cope with this challenge is becoming an urgent task, said scientists.

The Hanoi Times - Vietnam is now in the 10 most attractive software processing markets, according to assessment by the US consultancy group, A. T. Kearney. Kearney said in its 2009 report that the country’s software processing industry is growing vibrantly. Its assessment was based o­n a survey of 50 countries with software industry, with such criteria as service and support information technology, customer care centres, skills and human resources and business environment. Vietnam ’s position was up nine grades compared to the group’s rating in 2007. India still tops the list, followed by China , Malaysia and Thailand . A.T. Kearney, established 82 years ago, is o­ne of the world’s leading consultancy groups. It releases numerous reports o­n various fields such as retail market, real estate, investment environment and information technologys

The Hanoi Times - Vietnam is striving to make its agricultural bio-technology o­ne of the best in Southeast Asia, with the aim of having the sector become world class in some fields by 2020, said the Chief Administrator of the Bio-technology Programme, Pham Van Toan.

The Hanoi Times - SEAF Blue Waters Growth Fund, managed by the company Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, has invested in a growth-oriented software development firm in Vietnam.

The Hanoi Times - The Government has endorsed a new Hi-Tech Law to govern the activities of organisations, individuals, overseas Vietnamese and foreign organisations and individuals, who operate in Viet Nam's hi-tech sector.