It had reached $473.73 billion in the first 11 months, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said at a press briefing on Thursday. Exports were worth $241.42 billion, a 7.8 percent rise, while imports rose 7.4 percent to $232.31 billion. The share of exports by domestic firms rose by 1.79 percentage points year-on-year to 30.95 percent. Their export growth was 18.1 percent, almost five times the 3.8 percent achieved by foreign companies, Hai said. Exports to Mexico and Canada rose by 29.5 percent and 27.2 percent thanks to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), he added. Nguyen Cam Trang, deputy head of the trade ministry’s import-export department, said there would be a trade surplus for the fourth straight year. Vietnam had a surplus of $7.2 billion in 2018, the highest in a decade. … [Read more...] about Vietnam trade to climb to record high despite global woes
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Fortinet Placed Highest in Ability to Execute in the Challengers Quadrant of the 2019
Fortinet was also recently named by Gartner as one of the highest three vendors in worldwide market share for enterprise SD-WAN equipment by revenue for 2Q19, experiencing 234% growth in revenue quarter-over-quarter between 1Q19-2Q19 to reach $46M in 2Q19.2 Fortinet believes its placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and market share placement is largely due to its commitment to helping customers reduce WAN complexity and cost while enhacing application experience by delivering advanced security and SD-WAN functionality in a single easy-to-use offering available in an appliance or virtual machine in all six major cloud providers. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN helps customers tackle some of the biggest challenges facing WAN deployments by enabling three key use cases: Simplify Operations, Reduce Costs and Enable a Cloud-Ready Branch. John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet, said: “As one of the highest ranked vendors in enterprise SD-WAN market share worldwide with … [Read more...] about Fortinet Placed Highest in Ability to Execute in the Challengers Quadrant of the 2019
VinAI Announces Scientific Research at the World’s No.1 Conference on Artificial Intelligence – NeurIPS 2019
HANOI, VIETNAM - Media OutReach - 13 December 2019 - VinAI Research (directly under Vingroup) has just announced the first two scientific research results at NeurIPS - the world's No. 1 conference on artificial intelligence in Canada. The event not only marks VinAI in the world technology community, but also shows the transformation of Vingroupinto a leading technology corporation, gradually integrating with the global technology peak.Dr Bui Hai Hung,Director of VinAI Research, makes a speech at NeuIPS 2019 NeurIPS 2019 (Neural Information Processing Systems - The annual international conference on artificial neural network information processing systems) will take place on December 8-14, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. This is the largest AI summit in the year. This year's conference has a total of more than 1,400 articles accepted, out of a total of more than 6,700 articles submitted. Google, Google Brain and Google Deepmind have the highest number of articles accepted. MIT University has … [Read more...] about VinAI Announces Scientific Research at the World’s No.1 Conference on Artificial Intelligence – NeurIPS 2019
“The Quintessence of Tonkin” brings VN culture out to the world
Hanoi (VNA) – Staged entirely on water and providing a broad overview of village life, from folklore to music, poetry, water puppetry, Buddhism and more, the open-air show “Tinh Hoa Bac Bo” (The Quintessence of Tonkin) is described as a truly standout tourism product of the capital city of Hanoi, helping nudge local culture closer to international friends. The live entertainment show has been open to the public for two years. (Photo courtesy of the organising board) Tuan Chau Hanoi JSC, and takes place on an outdoor stage on the western outskirts of Hanoi. The Quintessence of Tonkin includes six acts presenting traditional elements of the Vietnamese culture in a contemporary and innovative way. The spectacle draws inspiration from Thay pagoda’s history as it tells how it was founded by monk Tu Dao Hanh and the ancient union between religion and monarchy. (Photo courtesy of the organiser) The spectacle draws inspiration from the pagoda’s history as … [Read more...] about “The Quintessence of Tonkin” brings VN culture out to the world
Ho Chi Minh City responds to World Population Day
The department took this occasion to announce the city’s population and reproductive health strategy for the 2016-2020 period, with increasing engagements of organizations and individuals in population and planning policies. Photo for illustration. It called for support from organizations and individuals in holding communications activities and training personnel, especially for 12,000 collaborators in communes, wards and residential areas. As part of the meeting, the department signed a cooperation memorandum of understanding with Thai Nakorn Patana Company Limited, under which the latter will provide affordable contraceptive pills for local residents. Lauded the efforts made by the local health body, Vo Thanh Dong, Deputy General Director of the General Office for Population and Family Planning, requested it to boost the quality of reproductive health in rural and mountainous areas and work harder to reduce abortion rate. In the 2011 -2015 period, Ho Chi … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City responds to World Population Day