Vietnam technology news snapshot for May 2025
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- Vietnam looks to Japan’s Rapidus as a possible partner on Vietnam’s semiconductor industry ambitions / full item
- Vietnam’s Tech Ministry instructs telco service providers to block Telegram messaging app for not cooperating in combating alleged crimes by users of the app / full item
- Australia’s Core8 established Core8 BioValley Incubator in Long An Province, looking to be Vietnam’s first hub for research, talent development, and international partnerships / full item
- Vietnam: Danang city seeks investors for $69.3M semiconductor chip lab, focusing on advanced packaging / full item
‘Vietnam recorded nearly 20 million brute-force cyberattacks in 2024, or 37% of all such incidents in Southeast Asia.’ / full item
- Vietnam: China’s BYD EV giant looks to expand operations at its $366M plant in Vietnam’s north to meet growing market demands for new products / full item
Vietnam: “The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a decision on the Standard Curriculum for Semiconductor Microchip Training at the undergraduate and master’s levels.” / full item
- Vietnam: China’s Shein is reportedly to establish a Vietnam warehouse of near 15 hectares in size in a bid to hedge against US tariffs / full item
- Vietnam: Danang Venture and Angel Summit 2025 is set for May 29-30, featuring startup pitching, exhibition and more / full item
- Vietnam: VinFast launches small EB 6 e-bus, adding to its range of zero-emission commercial vehicles / full item
- Vietnam: Here’s an intro to ELBOT, delivering a 6-axis robot arm targeting manufacturing competitiveness, labor quality, automation and beyond / full item
- GITEX Global announces new GITEX Vietnam tech conference for 2026, building on the success of April’s inaugural GITEX Asia 2025 event / full item
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- Vietnam: Viettel Military Industry & Telecoms Group breaks ground on 140 MW ‘Super Data Center’, set to span nearly 4 hectares with approximately 10,000 racks / full item
- South Korea’s KT telco and Vietnam’s Viettel ink $95M AI partnership, looking to develop Vietnam’s tech capabilities and infrastructure, and consult in the wider SEA region / full item
- An overview of the recent Australia-Vietnam Smart Cities Business Forum 2025, and the ways in which the two countries might collaborate / full item
- Indonesia: Vietnam’s EV charge station developer, V-GREEN, inks MOU with 4 partners to deploy near 63,000 charging ports for VinFast EVs in Indonesia by the end of 2025 / full item
‘What next for Southeast Asia’s China-backed solar boom?’ / full item
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