On June 16, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a ceremony to award the Press Award on Science and Technology in 2019. This is an award awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology every year since 2012 to authors who are Vietnamese citizens who have excellent journalistic works of posted Science and Technology.

The cybersecurity monitoring center, the Information Security Department, Ministry of Information and Communications, said that in the first 5 months of 2020, there were 1,495 cyber attacks on information systems in Vietnam leading to breakdowns, down 43.9% over the same period last year.

On June 16, in Da Nang, a ceremony to announce the Prime Minister's decision on the establishment of the Vietnam-Korea University of Information Technology and Communications (VKU) took place.

It is expected that the Vietnam Artificial Intelligence Festival will be held from November 27-28 within the start-up and innovation week of Ho Chi Minh City in 2020.

The Hanoi Market Management Force has unexpectedly inspected the establishment and discovered more than 10,000 products with signs of counterfeit GUCCI and SENSODYNE brands.

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, digital transformation is an indispensable process of Vietnam for socio-economic development in the new period. If appropriate policies exist, Vietnam will take advantage of this opportunity to rise up to become a developed country.

As part of a series of activities under the Supporting Industry Development Program, over the past time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (Department of Industry) has cooperated with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the World Bank and the donation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia (DFAT), General Department of Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) deploy to build "database of enterprises producing finished products and supporting industrial products in different fields of mechanic, automotive, electronics, textile and footwear sectors” in order to form a link network to help businesses and investors find information quickly, accurately, meet the needs of investment connectivity, enhance cooperation opportunities between Vietnamese businesses and FDI enterprises, multinational corporations.

Most of today's food products are bar coded, and many businesses already provide applications to access, but not many consumers really care and understand the meaning of the origin trace problem.

Innovative start-up projects of rural youth will have access to businesses, angel investors and will be supported with capital of up to one billion VND.

According to Ookla's statistics, Vietnam's broadband Internet speed in April ranked 59th in the world, up 5 places compared to March.