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Governmental staff deliver public services to citizens. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans to accelerate digital transformation in governmental organisations and promote e-government to heighten the efficiency and quality of public service delivery. This is among the tasks for the city in conducting a plan on enhancing the application of information technology in governmental organisation s, promoting e-government and ensuring cybersecurity between 2021 and 2025. To this end, the southern economic hub will focus on developing digital infrastructure serving governmental offices; creating open databases with easy and friendly access to increase transparency, towards e-government, a digital economy, and a digital society; and ensuring information safety and cybersecurity. A customer service centre of the Electricity Vietnam (EVN). (Photo: VNA) The city targets being among the top 5 performers in developing e-government and the top 3 in the … [Read more...] about HCM City accelerates digital transformation in governmental organisations

Scheduled to begin at the upcoming Southern Liberation and National Reunification holiday (April 30), the programme will seek to create new distinctive tourism products so as to enhance the experience of tourists to the city. The programme is the realisation of the city’s plan to develop its night-time economy and will be piloted from 2021 to 2023. Da Nang by Night targets foreign tourists from key markets such as China, the Republic of Korea and Southeast Asia, as well as those from potential markets such as Russia, Australia and the US when the Covid-19 pandemic is brought under control and international routes are permitted to resume. It will also aim to attract domestic tourists from places with direct flights to Da Nang, such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, the Central Highlands and neighbouring provinces. The programme will include lighting shows, night-time tourism and service activities at selected places of interest, the night beach of My An, and cultural events … [Read more...] about Da Nang by Night expected to revive tourism in central city

A corner of Bac Giang city (Photo: VNA) Bac Giang (VNA) – The northern province of Bac Giang is improving a master plan on the development of industrial parks (IPs) and complexes, as well as land use planning, according it its provincial Party Committee. The province is also refining a master plan on urban areas for the 2021-2030 period to attract investment. It built a project on supporting start-ups in the locality, towards strongly developing private economy, and issued a list of projects in need of investment in the fields of agriculture and rural development. The locality considered building mechanisms to support investment in hotel construction projects and hi-end services. In particular, Bac Giang will step up administrative reform , improve the provincial competitiveness index, pool resources to build key socio-economic infrastructure while enhancing the quality of human resources and State management on projects. The province will actively assist … [Read more...] about Bac Giang betters master plan on IPs development

FPT Smart Technologies is headquartered in Da Nang – Vietnam’s third largest city. (Photo: Shutterstock) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s leading IT services provider FPT Software, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, and Smart Holdings of Toyota Group have recently launched FPT Smart Technologies - a joint venture providing digital transformation services and solutions. FPT Software holds 51 percent of stake in the joint venture. The joint venture was launched at a time when Japan is looking toward a 5.0 society – a super-smart society fueled by smart technologies and innovations among industries. It will offer digital transformation services and solutions in manufacturing, automobiles and construction industries by combining technological expertise, experiences and domain knowledge of the two companies. Automotive technology is one of the spearhead capabilities of FPT Software, with Japan being a key market in FPT’s globalisation strategy./. VNA … [Read more...] about FPT, Toyota launch digital transformation joint venture

A factory of Sumi-Hanel Wiring Systems Company at Sai Dong B Industrial Park in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Hanoi authorities have requested that the management board of local industrial parks (IPs) inspect all IPs and make appropriate development recommendations in line with the capital’s planning, Nguyen Manh Quyen, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, has said. Planning is the top priority that determines the effective development of these parks, he underscored. The city is home to nine operating industrial parks (IPs), which together cover 1,369 ha and post an occupancy rate of 95 percent. There are also two other IPs undergoing infrastructure adjustments , four calling for investment, and one that has had its investment licence revoked. IPs in the capital attracted a total of about 118.2 million USD in investment last year, fulfilling just 30 percent of the target and representing only 34 percent of the figure recorded in 2019. 2020 revenue … [Read more...] about Planning key to effective performance of industrial parks in Hanoi