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.

Vietnam’s top internet security firm BKAV will provide cyber security expert training for 100 Cuban officials between 2014 and 2017, in a deal agreed during the March visit to Cuba by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

A focus on training and low-cost tactics are the way ViettelTV, under the military-run telecom giant Viettel, will make inroads into Vietnam’s potential pay TV market.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has urged internet content providers in Viet Nam to implement the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in order to adapt to global internet development.

No enterprise has obtained the dominant position in the e-commerce market in Vietnam, which means that great opportunities are still awaiting new comers.

Vietnamese representatives joined 15,000 leading experts, scientists and mangers in the oil and gas industry from 65 countries and territories at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia) in Malaysia on March 25-28.

In 2014, Unikey, the most popularly used Vietnamese input method running on Microsoft Windows management systems, is 20 years old. This is believed to be the only software product which can exist for so long in the technology world, where technology solutions get backward everyday.

The second Vietnam International Exhibition on Film and Television Technology (Telefilm 2014) will commence in Ho Chi Minh City on June 5, for the purpose of spotlighting advertisement services and the modern technology now available to filmmakers.

Vietnam should further foster the application of science and technology in its production and business activities to boost its development in the future, an official has said.

Vietnamese now would rather upgrade their smart phones with iOS 7.1 instead of maintaining the jailbreak iOS 7.0.

In early March, China’s Gionee launched its flagship Elife E7 smartphone line in the Vietnamese market and unveiled that its S5.5 would be available in the country in June.

The Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel) will help Laos research and develop the system to standardise the font of the Lao language for mobile devices and computers.

A farmer in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Thanh Oai has become well-known in Vietnam for successfully planting trees that yield five to seven kinds of fruits, typically used on offering trays on traditional festivals.

The trend that users access data from their handheld devices with different operating systems has urged managers to build a system to manage and monitor their activities.

A “PCs for life” festival is taking place in the northern province of Thai Nguyen in order to promote the use of computers and the internet by people in remote and disadvantaged area

Russia and Vietnam will jointly build an atomic energy research centre under a US$500 million project funded by the Russian government.

The HCMC government has plans to develop the Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) into a chain, located not only in the city but in other provinces as well, said HCMC Vice Chairman Le Manh Ha.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Viet Thanh said his ministry is urgently finalising plans to construct a Vietnam-Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

A conference on the design and safe operation of research nuclear power reactors was held in Da Lat city, the Central Highland province of Lam Dong on March 19.

More than 100 Vietnamese and German scientists gathered at a conference in Hanoi on March 19 to look at ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in science and technology through a number of joint research projects.

Total funding for science this year will reach an estimated 13.666 trillion VND (about 510,000 USD) as the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has decided to focus investment on a number of key scientific activities, the Vietnam Economic News reported.