At the National Science and Technology Contest for high school students for the 2019-2020 school year in Da Nang, out of 137 projects attended, 75 projects won prizes, including 11 first prizes, 16 second prizes, 21 third prizes and 27 fourth prizes.

Of the 30 schools and institutes participating in the Stinet Ho Chi Minh City S&T Information Resource System operated by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, only 14 units put full-text documents on this system.

The General Department of Vocational Education (Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA)) organized the launching ceremony of the contest "Idea of startup of pupils and vocational education students- Startup Kite of the year 2020."

The participation of universities will expand the number of available documents on the system to serve the community of scientific research and innovation in Ho Chi Minh City.

In the context of Vietnam's agriculture is facing great challenges of climate change, sea level rise and extreme weather, the investment in S&T is a basic element to promote agricultural development in the new period.

On June 17, 2020, within the framework of the Joint Program on Science and Technology Activities between the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Public Security for the period of 2016-2020, functional units of the Ministry of Science and Technology worked with the Department of Science, Strategy and History, Ministry of Public Security aims to discuss and build a plan to summarize the Coordination Program for period of 2016-2020; survey, prepare a draft Coordination Program for the period of 2021-2025.

On June 19, 2020, implementing the Notice No. 1654 / TB-BKHCN of June 9, 2020 of the Ministry of Science and Technology on the results of the meeting between the leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the leaders of Thua Thien Hue province, the mission of the Department of High Technology led by Mr. Dam Bach Duong, Head of the delegation realy investigateed and had a meeting with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province regarding the high-tech zone project in Thua Thien Hue province.

The schedule for the Vietnam Artificial Intelligence Festival (AI4VN2020) is scheduled to be launched at a recent meeting with the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee (Ho Chi Minh City) on the National artificial intelligence strategy development orientation and organization for Vietnam Artificial Intelligence Festival 2020.

On June 23, Bkav Technology Group issued a warning about the VN84App spy system to attack Vietnamese users. According to the results of the analysis, the spyware used in this campaign could penetrate the smartphone to track, retrieve user data and send it to the control server.

These two diagnostic kits are inherited from the research project of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic kit created by two groups of scientists in Vietnam, from the National Institute of Vaccine Testing and medical biological products, and Hanoi Polytechnic University.