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.

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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.

Hanoi`s programme on development of information technology in the 2016-2020 period will be divided into two stages from 2016-2018 and 2019-2020.

The Sustainable Energy Technology Training (SETT) programme was organised in HCM City from November 30 to December 2.

Domestic commercial banks need to give top investment priority to information technology if they want to develop better retail banking strategies, according to independent market watchdogs.

The Prime Minister has approved a project with the after-tax cost worth about 3,367 billion VND to digitalise the national public data.

Ministers of Telecommunications and Information Technology from ASEAN countries agreed to give top priority to cooperation and development in a five-year road map to 2020.

Experts from Finland and Vietnam gathered at a workshop on November 24 in Hanoi to discussed ways to reduce clean water loss by applying information and communication technology (ICT).

The first Vietnam-Thailand Energy Forum, which aims to concretise the joint statement on energy bilateral cooperation signed in 2012, was held in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on November 23.

According to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC), the Vietnamese domain name “.vn” tops ASEAN in the number of registrations, and is ranked seventh among the top 10 Asian countries for the largest number of national code top-level domains.

A programme took place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17 to promote technology transfer between Vietnamese and Japanese enterprises in the fields of industry and building.

Vietnam should develop cross-border e-commerce, a growing trend, according to experts.

Under the recent circular issued by the The Ministry of Information and Communications, the import of used information technology (IT) products such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones, speakers, flash disk drives, digital cameras will be banned from December 15.

The Ministry of Science and Technology in collaboration with the France Development Agency (AFD) in Vietnam held a ceremony to launch the geographical indication development project in Hanoi on November 11.

The UNESCO General Conference has recognised the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Physics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology as its Category 2 centres.

The Silicon Saigon Park JSC held a groundbreaking ceremony of the "Saigon Silicon City" project in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) on November 10.

Potential and collaboration plan in education, science and technology between Vietnam and Russia were discussed during the first meeting of the Russia-Vietnam committee for education, science and technology cooperation held in Moscow from November 5-6.

Hanoi authorities have hosted an inauguration ceremony for Vietnam’s largest centre for technology transfer at the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, with the largest solar battery production line in the country.

The Association of Anti-virus Asia Researchers International Conference (AVAR 2015), themed “The Age of Cyber Warfare”, will be organised in the central city of Da Nang from December 2 - 4.

The annual "Vietnam Information Security Day 2015", themed "Serious destruction trend from modern network attacks`` will be held on November 19 in HCM City and on December 1 in Hanoi, announced Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) at the press conference in Hanoi on November 4.

US-based new generation data protection company Acronis has announced a partnership with NTS Group to distribute its products and solutions in Vietnam.

On October 31, Hanoi hosted a seminar on enhancing connectivity and cooperation among ASEAN IT and communication research centers.