The five-day international event, themed "Innovating Futures: AI & Semiconductors Globally," is expected to provide local businesses with meaningful connections with global companies, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience in AI and semiconductors.

The database allows for identifying which tax collector supervises each taxpayer.

Welcome to this week's Words on the Street, where we explore the latest shifts shaping Vietnam's digital landscape, and look at Deepseek's quiet but intriguing entry into an AI market where ChatGPT reigns supreme.

Securities trading organizations should refrain from offering services in consulting, brokering, issuing or transacting crypto currencies, according to the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC).

Ho Chi Minh City will focus on five sectors at the city’s second science and technology park, which is scheduled to open in 2019.

European Union (EU) supports conducting a seminar on coastal erosion’s scientific studies in two Vietnamese provinces of Ca Mau and Tien Giang.

Vietnam’s leading technology group FPT on February 25 signed a US$100 million contract with Europe’s leading energy company Innogy SE, marking the biggest contract in its history.

All administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City will build applications (apps) so that local people could access information via their smart devices, said Tran Vinh Tuyen, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee.

With the aim of bringing technology products to life, CyHome - the smart apartment ecosystem - has been making things easier in managing and operating the apartment. Currently, customers are actively welcoming CyHome.

China’s second largest e-commerce firm JD.com has become one of the largest shareholders at Tiki, a Vietnamese online retail service.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has recently held a conference on high-tech application in agricultural co-operatives.

While Grab Vietnam grows fast and on the way to complete its piloting period in the country, its peer Uber enlists the addition leader as the respond.

Minister of Information and Communication (MIC) Truong Minh Tuan said Google should set up a representative office in Vietnam for better co-operation with local authorities.

The government gives priority to building a national public services portal and a database on the population.

The People’s Committee of the Capital city has issued a pilot program on applying QR code in tracing the origins of fruits at shops in the city in 2018.

That said, the Ministry of Industry & Trade has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Motors in developing electric vehicles suitable with the current transport infrastructure of Vietnam and available charging station.

Army-run telecommunication company Viettel Group has been renamed as Viettel Military Industry & Telecom Group, stated in the recently-issued decree by the government amending the Group’s operation and organization charters.

Foreign internet-based service providers may not be requested to host their servers in Vietnam compulsorily, the new version of Cybersecurity law said.

Attending a conference in Hanoi on January 9 to review the science and technology sector’s performance in 2017 and devise tasks for 2018, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) should focus on improving four main issues as well as creating three breakthroughs during the 2018-2020 period.

​Hanoi will keep on encouraging application of science and high technology in agricultural production.

Vietnamese Government has instructed related administrative agencies to finalize legal framework to manage and deal with electronic money, virtual assets and currencies.

Instead of accessing bank account through normal PIN passcode, customers just need to hold the phone’s camera up to their faces, then the application will automatically recognize the face for the next login.

The VIetnam ICT Press Club has recently announced the top 10 ICT events in 2017.