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.

The fourth meeting of Vietnam-Japan Joint Committee on Science and Technology was held on March 29 in Hanoi, focusing its discussion on hi-tech agriculture, environmentally-friendly technology, climate change adaptation and the proper use of water resources.

Vietnam will deploy to apply 4G (fourth generation) long-term evolution in 2015 and plans to grant 4G licences in early 2016, Deputy Minister of Information and Technology Le Nam Thang confirmed at the international conference on the application of 4G held in Hanoi on March 26.

Vietnam has become the world’s top outsourcing location for the first time in terms of costs, risks and operational conditions, according to new research from global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield (C&W).

Favourable conditions are now in place for cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese companies, including those in the digital content and software industry, said Bui Huy Son – Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency.

While some domestic scientists are under the impression that working conditions in the country are not up to international standards, other foreign scientists see nothing but the opportunity to make a difference in the nation’s future.

BKAV, a wholly owned Vietnamese enterprise, has promoted its BPhone smartphone as a super product, but the device remains a mystery.

Organisations and individuals can now easily access socio-economic data at provincial and district levels in both English and Vietnamese at the new website www.worldbank.org/mapvietnam/, launched by the World Bank on March 20.

Applying vehicle tracking devices and technology is an effective solution to ensure traffic safety and order, ease congestion and reduce environmental pollution, affirmed Deputy Head of the National Traffic Safety Committee Khuat Viet Hung at a conference held in Hanoi on March 18.

Vietnam’s Minister of Information and Communication, Nguyen Bac Son, paid a working visit to Australia`s largest telecommunications company, Telstra Corporation, on March 17.

Eight rare animals were recently released back into the wild in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Quang Binh province, said the park’s management board on March 16.

Though Vietnam has never been considered a hi-tech power, locally made hi-tech brands have become popular with consumers, reported the English language news portal Vietnam Net.

Vietnam`s Department of Survey and Mapping and the Japanese Geospatial Information Institute held a ceremony to hand over a Memorandum of Understanding on March 11 in Hanoi giving the collaborative efforts in cartography.

People will be able to send authorities information about forest safety with their mobile devices in six provinces, under a project launched in Hanoi on March 9.

Junior research fellow Dr Tran Ha Lien Phuong has won a fellowship from global cosmetics firm L`ORÉAL for her work related to discovering a cure for cancer.

The development of science-technology in coffee cultivation through contributions from the Central Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (CASI) has helped Vietnam establish itself as the world’s second largest coffee producer and top Robusta coffee exporter.

Vietnam is expected to start developing 4G services by the end of 2015, experts believe, adding that the services will ensure competitiveness and enjoy widespread popularity.

After ending last year with encouraging results, several IT firms in Ho Chi Minh City have set higher business targets this year.

A consortium of scientists from the Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi recently unveiled full genome maps of three members of a Vietnamese family.

The Ministry of Information and Communications and big tech companies in Vietnam are implementing 4G, which is expected to begin in late 2015.

All cities and province across the country are scheduled to fully implement the TV digitalization programme by 2020, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication.