Author: Kevin Le

  A wind power project in Đắk Lắk Province. — Photo baodautu.vn HÀ NỘI — The Đắk Lắk People’s Committee has granted in-principle investment approval to two wind energy project, expected to cost over VNĐ2.21 trillion (US$96 million).  Financed by VNM investment company from Singapore, the two plants have a combined design capacity of 70 MW, according to the provincial Department of Planning and Investment.  The 20 MW-Alpha VNM plant, valued at VNĐ650 billion, will be developed in three communes of Ea Sol, Đliê Yang and Ea Hiao on an area of ​​nearly 6.5ha. Meanwhile, the 50MW-Beta plant will cover 10.9ha in eight communes of Đạt Hiếu,…

  People shop for socks at the fair. — VNA/VNS Photo Thế Duyệt  THÁI BÌNH  A trade fair is under-way in the northern province of Thái Bình to meet the local people’s shopping demand for the upcoming Tết holiday.  Hosted by the provincial Department of Industry and Trade, the fair is showcasing farm produce, forestry products, seafood, processed food, electronics, textile and garment, footwear and other consumer goods at 200 booths.  In his speech at the event’s opening ceremony on Tuesday, Trần Huy Quân, director of the department, said the event was held as part of the province’s trade promotion programme in 2021, with the goal of stabilising…

The latest Open Beta of OxygenOS for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro brings a ton of system optimizations, a daily activity meter similar to Google’s digital wellbeing called Dock, and optimizations for the Weather app, l play area and gallery. The update is available at 185MB and also contains the latest January security patch. OxygenOS Beta 6 changelog The changelog also claims that Bluetooth connectivity to smartwatches has been improved. The layout of the cloud service interface in the gallery is also reviewed. Check out the full OxygenOS Open Beta 6 changelog below. System Optimized display of the status bar…

The display on the new Galaxy S21 Ultra is a big improvement over the panel of the Galaxy Note20 Ultra and in particular the Galaxy S20 Ultra. For starters, it allows for variable refresh rate at the highest QHD + resolution. Samsung achieved this by increasing the clock speed of the MIPI display interface from 1157 MHz to 1462 MHz, in the same way OnePlus did last year with 8 Pro. Guys at AnandTech decided to test the Galaxy S21 Ultra’s display and compare it to the OLEDs of the Galaxy S20 Ultra and Note20 Ultra, finding more interesting details…

The Nokia 3.4 announced last September would have debuted in India in mid-December. That didn’t happen, and while we waited for an exact launch date, Nokia teased the 3.4 in India today, saying it’s “coming soon”. New things to discover at your fingertips with the Nokia 3.4.Are you ready to #AddNewToYou? # Nokia3dot4 pic.twitter.com/SckVEHLncn- Nokia Mobile India (@NokiamobileIN) February 3, 2021 The Nokia 3.4 is powered by the Snapdragon 460 SoC and has three memory options: 3GB / 32GB, 3GB / 64GB, and 4GB / 64GB. Although it is not clear if all of these variants will arrive in India…

After releasing the first Sony Xperia 1 III renderings, @OnLeaks created a short video that offers a 360 ° look at the phone. And with a phone like the Mark 3, a lot of good stuff is on the side. As the phone spins, notice the camera shutter button and the Xperia Pro-inspired customizable key on the right side. It’s just below the power button / fingerprint reader combo. A few seconds later, the 3.5mm headphone jack appears. And then the card slot, which will have room for a microSD. It’s a paragraph we can’t write about many 2021 flagships.…

  Customers from foreign countries can send money to Visa cards in Viet Nam. — Photo Courtesy Visa Vietnam HCM CITY —  Global cross-border P2P payments and money transfer service provider MoneyGram International and Visa on Wednesday launched a real-time peer-to-peer (P2P) payment solution to Việt Nam. It enables customers to transfer money from the US, UK and 18 other European countries to Việt Nam quickly and securely through Visa Direct.  They can transfer money almost instantly through the MoneyGram mobile app or website to any Visa cardholder in Việt Nam.  “We’ve already hit the ground running in 2021, and this latest integration with Visa Direct further improves our leading customer experience and will help execute our strategy to scale digital growth in one of the largest remittance markets in the world,”  Grant Lines, global…

Last weakness, we saw a Geekbench listing for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy XCover 5 rugged phone with model number SM-G525F. Today, reliable leakster @ Sudhanshu1414 explains the main features of the device to us. Samsung Galaxy XCover 5 key specifications:-5.3 inch screen, HD + resolution with 1600 x 900 pixels -4GB RAM + 64GB ROM -16MP rear -5MP before – 3000mAh battery -15W load -USB-C port-The color black-Support LTE pic.twitter.com/qBIIajcznP- Sudhanshu (@ Sudhanshu1414) February 2, 2021 These include a 5.3-inch HD + display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, as well as a 3000mAh battery with 15W charging via USB-C.…

  Nguyễn Đình Thắng, deputy chairman of the Việt Nam Association for Information Processing, speaks at a digital transformation seminar held in HCM City on Tuesday. — VNS Photo HCM CITY — Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday. Trần Phú Lữ, director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said Việt Nam has some 800,000 enterprises, of which SMEs account for…

Sony has released its financial results for the period October to December 2020, which is the third quarter of the Japanese company’s fiscal year. The holiday season saw the launch of the new Playstation 5 console, which recorded 4.5 million sales despite severe stockouts. Meanwhile, Sony has only sold one million smartphones, down 23% per year. Q3 2019 financial year(in JPY millions / USD millions) Q3 fiscal 2020(in JPY millions / USD millions) Change Sales 113,500 / 1,080 111,061 / 1,056 (2.2%) Operating profit 6 965/66 21 292/202 206% The mobile communications division saw a slight decrease in total sales,…