On the working visit to Cambodia Kingdom (March 13-16), Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung came to greet the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

 The Government has set goal to raise e-government index by 10-15 places by 2020, making Viet Nam one of the four leading countries in ASEAN in the UN e-government rankings by 2025.

 On March 12, Deputy Minister Phan Tam met and worked with the US-ASEAN Business Council headed by Mr. Michael W. Michalak - Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director and more than 20 businesses operating in Vietnam such as Facebook, Apple, IBM, Amazon, UPS, Paypal, Time Warners, Nielsen ... and representatives of the US Embassy in Hanoi.

 On March 12, in Hanoi, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung had a meeting with the Finnish expert delegation.

 On March 12, in Vientiane, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Laos Somedee Duangdee cordially received the delegation of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, headed by Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications of Vietnam Nguyen Manh Hung, who is paying a working visit in Laos from March 11-13.

 As of March 10, a total of 109,561 subscribers successfully switched between four mobile carriers of Vinaphone, Viettel, Mobile and Vietnamobile while retaining their mobile numbers via the mobile number portability (MNP) service, according to Vietnam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA).

 An inauguration ceremony of the National E-document Exchange Platform is taking place in Ha Noi.

 The Government plans to inaugurate a National E-document Exchange Platform on March 12, a move towards paperless Cabinet.

 Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung and Lao Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Bosengkham Vongdala discussed ways to deepen bilateral ties during their talks in Vientiane on March 11. 

 The four major groups of players in the mobile payment market are fintechs, banks, mobile network operators and technology firms.

 Cisco System, an American multinational technology conglomerate, predicts that in 2020 there will be 50 billion devices connected with one another via the Internet, namely Internet of Things (IoT). In Vietnam, IoT products have gradually become familiar with the public thanks to the massive investment of domestic technology enterprises.

 The Government has issued Resolution No. 17/NQ-CP on a number of key tasks and solutions to develop the e-government during 2019-2020, with orientations towards 2025.

 Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung directed the Viet Nam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) and network operators to stop the supply of pre-activated SIM cards.

 Vietnam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

 On March 6, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung received and worked with Mr. Tabuchi Masao, Chairman of SCSK Company (Sumitomo Corporation).

 The National Press Festival 2019 will take place at the Hanoi Museum on March 15-17, announced the organisation board on March 7.

 VinaPhone yesterday distributed nearly 5,000 eSIMs for its customers who had pre-ordered this from January 2019.  It also announced the official mass launch of eSIM onto the market from March 11, 2019.

 The technology of Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) has been introduced to Vietnam, yet unable to attract much interest from related businesses. The turning point came when Viettel announced its successful implementation of the technology in the recent Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC 2019), themed ‘Intelligent Connectivity’ and held in Spain. Now many practical applications of NB-IoT are more sought-after.

 Vietnam is 13th globally in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) adoption rate with more than 14 million users, according to Google.

 The “.vn” domain name has always had the highest number of registrations across Southeast Asia since 2011, the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre said on March 5.