Author: Kevin Le

  Inspection of dragon fruit by the US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at the Sơn Sơn Irradiation Company in HCM City’s Bình Tân District. VNS Photo Bồ Xuân Hiệp HCM CITY — Vietnamese enterprises must be well prepared for legal issues if they seek to export to the US market, a seminar heard in HCM City last week.  Trần Phú Lữ, deputy director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said the US is Việt Nam’s largest export market and major items include seafood, textiles, footwear, and farm produce. “The US is the largest…

Leaked renderings and images from the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro suggest these phones won’t ship with periscope lenses, and we’ve heard the same from a reliable tipster. Digital Chat Station, who said the lineup would come with a regular telephoto lens instead. Now tipster Max Jambor has corroborated this point, claiming that neither the Vanilla OnePlus 9 variant nor the Pro variant will feature a periscope module. It’s unclear why OnePlus doesn’t want to implement this technology since Oppo and Realme launched smartphones with a periscope camera on board, and it will be interesting to hear the Chinese phone…

  Delegates salute the national flags at the 13th National Party Congress’s official opening session on Tuesday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Việt Nam, taking place from January 25 to February 2, has made international headlines. The Associated Press (AP) on Monday ran an article saying that almost 1,600 delegates are attending the congress this week to approve future policy and help select the nation’s top leaders. Hà Nội’s streets are lined with the Party’s hammer and sickle flags, national flags and posters to promote the congress, which is held every five…

Blackview is a Hong Kong-based smartphone brand specializing in rugged smartphones at aggressive prices will bring the first rugged device with the 6nm Dimensity 1200 chipset called Blackview BL8000. The company introduced the world’s first durable phone with 5G last month with the BL6000 Pro powered by Dimensity 800, and now it says it will bring the first rugged device with the 6nm Dimensity 1200 chipset will call Blackview BL8000. The ad contained little in terms of the actual specs of the phone. We only know that it will have 12 GB of RAM and its chipset, which has just…

  Visitors at Tràm Chim National Park in Đồng Tháp Province. VNA/VNS Photo Chương Đài HCM CITY — HCM City and 13 cities and provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta will step up efforts to foster tourism cooperation in the next five years, local authorities have said. The tourism cooperation programme between HCM City and the Mekong Delta signed last year outlined collaboration in five areas: State management in tourism, development of new products, marketing and promotion activities, training of human resources, and investment in tourism. The cooperation had resulted in the forming of a regional tourism brand for HCM City and the Mekong Delta,…

The support page for the Galaxy A72 4G (SM-A725F / DS) has been posted on Samsung’s Russian official website, suggesting that the smartphone will become official soon. Samsung has yet to detail the specs for the Galaxy A72 4G, but the smartphone has been spotted on Geekbench with Snapdragon 720G SoC, 8GB of RAM, and Android 11. Machine translation from Russian The Galaxy A72 will also have a 5G version, which appeared in leaked renderings last month with a punch-hole display said to be 6.7 “. The screen is said to have a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication. Galaxy…

  The Hòa Phát steel mill in Hưng Yên Province. — Photo VNA HÀ NỘI — Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hòa Phát Group recorded a surge in both revenue and profit in 2020, the inter-sectoral conglomerate has said. It earned almost VNĐ91.28 trillion (US$3.9 billion) in revenue and posted VNĐ13.5 trillion in after-tax profit last year, up 41 per cent and 80 per cent, respectively, against 2019. In the fourth quarter alone, its revenue rose 43 per cent year-on-year to nearly VNĐ26.17 trillion, while after-tax profit surged 142 per cent to VNĐ4.67 trillion – a quarterly record. Steel manufacturing was a…

  OCB’s pre-listing road show in HCM City late last week. — VNS Photo HCM CITY — Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank wants to become one of the top five private banks in Việt Nam, its chairman, Trịnh Văn Tuấn, has said. Speaking at the bank’s re-listing road show in HCM City last week, he told prospective investors the bank was set to increase its profits, assets and charter capital by 20- 25 per cent annually.  “Priority customer segments, sustainable growth, improving asset quality through an international standard risk management system, and optimising technology and digital banking platforms to drive growth and efficiency are…

Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vũ Tiến Lộc. – VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI – Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vũ Tiến Lộc, as Chairman of the East Asia Business Council (EABC) in 2020, recently handed over the EABC Chair to Hak-hee Jo, Executive Managing Director of the Korea International Trade Association. This year, the council plans to focus on boosting post-pandemic recovery in tandem with commerce development, promoting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement as a tool for economic recovery, and ensuring supply chains and facilitating cross-border business connectivity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

“Seamless Updates”, first introduced in 2016 and coming to all Google Pixel phones, allow firmware updates to be installed on a secondary partition while the phone remains in use. “Seamless Updates” eliminates downtime between firmware updates and a single reboot, after which the secondary partition becomes the primary partition and the update is already complete. It also acts as a built-in security in case of update issue – the system may fall back to the previous partition. Update notification on a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Google has backed down on this requirement because it is no longer in the Android…