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Hanoi Times - Application of IT into tourism has seen marked growth since 2007. But more needs to be done. Like hotels, travel firms are racing to develop o­nline services.

Hanoi Times - As many as 130 businesses from Japan and Vietnam are showcasing their IT products at the “Japan Information Technology Festival 2008” opened in Hanoi o­n September 3, Japanese ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba and representatives of Vietnam ’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications attended the event, which marks the 35 th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relations.

Hanoi Times - The Vietnam Training Centre (VITEC) and the Hanoi University of Technology are preparing for an examination of IT students based o­n Japanese equivalent standards scheduled for October. The examination, expected to draw some 120 qualified students from the Hanoi University of Technology, is part of a recent agreement o­n IT human resource development between the VITEC, the Hoa Lac Industrial Zone Management Board and the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Hanoi Times - Thousands of experts, educators and officials around the country Friday attended "The School Year of Information and Technology Application," a national o­nline education conference in major cities including Ha Noi, Vinh, Da Nang, HCM City and Can Tho. It was hosted by the Ministry of Education and Training and Ministry of Information and Communication.

Hanoi Times- Japanese IT festival will be held in Hanoi from September 2nd to September 4th with the participation of more than 100 Vietnamese and Japanese enterprises.

Hanoi Times - For the first time Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) is being applied to verify the origin of an exported Vietnamese food product, frozen shrimp, a major seafood export item of Vietnam.

Hanoi Times - City environmental experts and officials have proposed limiting the use of plastic bags by supermarkets to reduce pollution in city waterways.

Hanoi Times - Viet Nam will be an important target for Google in the near future, said Mr. Dipchand Nishar, Product Manager of Google Inc. He complimented Viet Nam in a recent interview.Mr. Nishar arrived in Viet Nam Monday to do research and carry out surveys of Vietnamese market. According to him, the final mission after all these activities is that find out about the needs of Vietnamese Internet users. Mr. Nishar gave a lot of compliments when talking about the development of the information technology in Viet Nam. He ranked the speed of the development highly in comparison with other developed countries. However, he was a little bit worry about the speed of the e-commerce. He blamed the cash payment for causing a slowdown of the e-commerce. Vietnamese customers frequently use cash in their transaction and it becomes a habit and it is hard to adopt something new like credit cards or checks. Thus, when the transaction is carried out o­n Internet, most users hesitate to use credit cards to pay for their transaction. The consequence of this habit also limits the development of the credit card in the banking, he noted. On the other hand, he still believed that e-commerce in Viet Nam will have a new face in the near future as the credit card use become more and more common in this market.Though admitting that Google does not yet have any o­nline newspaper by Vietnamese as Yahoo does, Mr. Nishar affirmed that there would probably be a Vietnamese o­nline newspaper released by Google in the near future. He also emphasized that Viet Nam is an important target for most international companies o­nce they arrive Asia, in particular the two giant Yahoo and Ebay.At present, a new service of Google entitled Map Maker is more popular in Viet Nam as more and more Vietnamese internet users are connecting and creating products from that. Google Map Maker is a Google Maps service that allows you add or edit features, such as roads, business, parks, schools and more. The Google Map Maker tools allow users to visually mark locations and add detailed information about these locations. Viet Nam is second largest number of connections to Map Maker, following India

Hanoi Times - That is the method that Yahoo resorts to in order to become the initial choice of Vietnamese Internet users. In particular, Yahoo will focus o­n 5 main products: web-searching tools, master pages, communications (mail and Yahoo messenger), community (blog) and services for mobile phones.

Hanoi Times - Vietnam holds potential and is eager to develop renewable energy sources amid an exhaustion of traditional fuel, a symposium o­n bio-fuel development in Hanoi o­n July 25 heard. Speaking at the event, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Development Director Nguyen Kim Son said that in the near future crude oil sources will become exhausted, while traditional energy sources such as electricity, water, coal and nuclear will fall short of supply.Son noted that a possible energy crisis will push up oil price and Vietnam will be unable to import more than 15-17 million tonnes per year. Like many other countries, Vietnam has begun to use wind and solar energy, and biogas, but with low outputs and o­n small scale, he added.Meanwhile, Vietnam boasts huge potential for bio-fuel development as it has many material plants such as sugarcane, cassava, jatropha and castor-oil trees and seaweed with by-products of rubber seed, fish fat, used oil and lubricants.Of the plants, jatropha trees that have high bio-oil content were brought from South America into Vietnam and proved to be adaptable with the country’s climate. Oil abstracted from the jatropha seeds is considered the most chemically and physically suitable for producing bio-diesel.Having recognised economic and environmental benefits brought by bio-fuel production from plants, many participants voiced concern about Vietnam ’s food security because the country has seen its farmland acreage narrowed in recent years and had to import a number of foods such as maize. Others emphasised the need to work out a strategy to develop bio-fuel with low costs and without negative impacts o­n the environment and large subsidy from the State.In November 2007, the government approved a bio-fuel development project until 2015 with a vision through 2025 to produce different kinds of renewable energy and partly replace traditional fuels.As apart of the project, around 250,000 tonnes of ethanol and vegetable oil will be produced to meet 1 percent of the country’s petroleum demand by 2015.The seminar was co-organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Development and the Asian Development Bank.

Hanoi Times - The Vietnam Software Association (Vinasa) and the Game and Digital Content Business Club have complained to the Ministry of Information and Communications about the operations of Yahoo! in Vietnam.

Hanoi Times - Local internet service providers (ISPs) say they are taking action to overcome a serious flaw inherent in the Domain Name System (DNS) that could allow an attacker to re-direct unwilling web users to dangerous sites.

Hanoi Times- Yahoo Deputy CEO Luong Vinh Tuoc began his visit to Vietnam yesterday with hope to develop the search tool service.

Hanoi Times - The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, together with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Intel Vietnam has launched the program titled "To boost business effectiveness through applying electronic marketing", aiming at assisting SMEs of the tourism sector to approach modern technology, especially e-marketing.

Hanoi Times – The project o­n Thu Thiem Software Park broke the ground at the Thu Thiem urban area o­n July 19.

Hanoi Times – Vietnam’s audiences will have a chance to view a special opera entitled “Dream and Reality”, its play script is being written by Vietnam’s bloggers.

Hanoi Times - In 2004 Gameloft opened a studio (production unit) in Vietnam. Since then the studio has strongly developed with more than 400 staffs and become o­ne of the most important studios of Gameloft in the world. This is an attractive opportunity for the youth to follow the new field of IT - game o­n mobile phone.

In 2007, FPT Corporation’s revenue reached VND 13.893 trillion, contributing VND 1.915 trillion to the State coffer. In 2008, FPT will continue to strengthen its software outsourcing activities with the opening of two overseas companies: FPT Software Europe in Paris and FPT Software Malaysia.

Hanoi Times - Yahoo Vietnam and Intel will collaborate to support Internet accessing spots under the program called Superior Yahoo!

Hanoi Times - More than 20 Vietnamese software companies entered an embedded technology forum held by the Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) and the US Oracle Software Corporation in Hanoi.  The Oracle’s representatives introduced the participants with the latest information o­n embedded technology and answered questions o­n how to apply it in making software products.