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Da Nang strives to be Vietnam's tech hub
Bloomberg video Wednesday, April 29, 2015
VinaCapital CEO and Founding Partner Don Lam discusses the tech scene in Vietnam and how Da Nang is becoming Vietnam's technology hub. He speaks to Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "Trending Business."
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Da Nang starts construction of Vietnamese "Silicon Valley"
Da Nang starts construction on Vietnamese "Silicon Valley" - Economy - VietNam News
DA NANG (VNS)— The US's Rocky Lai&Associates Inc officially started the construction of the Da Nang Information Technology Park (DITP) in Hoa Vang district on Saturday.
The park, which covers an area of 341ha with total investment of US$278 million, will be the biggest ‘Silicon Valley' in the central region of Viet Nam.
"It's expected that the park will create revenue of $3 billion each year with 25,000 jobs and a satellite city of a 100,000 people," said the vice chairman of Rocky Lai&Associates Inc, Paul Ta.
The park will also include banks, offices, IT research and training centres, production and an IT showroom.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said the establishment of the IT park would help attract investment for economic development.
Chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee Van Huu Chien said: "Da Nang has developed strongly in the IT sector, and it remains a priority for the city's development strategy."
Da Nang is the biggest city after Ha Noi and HCM City to develop centralised information centres.
The city has developed the Quang Trung and Da Nang software parks as centralised centres to attract 140 information technology companies and over 2,000 employees.
Da Nang's Software Park has been recognised as the nation's second centralised IT zone by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
According to the city's information and communications department, the central city's IT businesses earned VND3.2 trillion ($152 million) in revenue and an export turnover of $13.5 million last year. — VNS
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Vietnam’s first e-government information system debuts in Da Nang
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 07/23/2014
The system comprises the information technology (IT) infrastructure, policies, mechanisms, and IT manpower resources, Pham Kim Son, director of the department, said at the inaugural ceremony.
It provides 1,196 online public administrative services of level 2 and 498 others of levels 3 and 4, which cover various fields including investment licenses, drivers’ licenses, and certificates of land use rights.
The e-system also features administrative applications in such fields as traffic management, water quality control, public lighting administration, and others.
It is aimed at enhancing the transparency and efficiency of state administrative agencies’ operations, minimizing bureaucratic delays, and thereby saving time and cost in carrying out administrative procedures for the general public, according to director Son.
The platform also makes a connection between city agencies, grassroots administrations and online public services, he said.
Specifically, the system allows the public to monitor and supervise the process of public administrative services and receive their results quickly and effectively, he specified.
“The system, along with the city’s new administrative center that will be launched in the near future, will enable Da Nang to operate the ‘one-stop’ administrative mechanism rapidly and turn the place into an ‘intelligent city’ soon,” Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said at the inaugural ceremony.
With such a system, the city has become a pioneer nationwide in handling administrative issues online, he said.
In August last year, Da Nang launched its IT infrastructure system, which includes a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), wireless Internet connection, a data center, and a center for human resource training and research on IT applications, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
The city has so far offered free wireless Internet access, with a maximum of 20,000 connections, to the population.
Da Nang is one of the major port cities in central Vietnam and the biggest city on the south central coast of the country.
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Da Nang, the stunning city of light
TUOITRENEWS
UPDATED : 03/03/2014
High-end illumination and skillful urban planning are expected to enhance Da Nang’s beauty and increase its tourism appeal.
Located between two of central Vietnam’s major tourist hubs, Hue and Hoi An, Da Nang City has only been considered a tourist destination in recent years.
Visitors used to complain that they did not know where and what to spend money on in the tedious city, apart from a handful of karaoke parlors, mini discotheques, and countless beer shops.
Luckily, things changed when the city began to rotate the Han River Bridge at night.
Locals and tourists increasingly flock to the area to admire the spectacle, and the latter usually choose hotel rooms that offer a good view of the bridge.
The city began to draw a notable increase in tourists, particularly foreigners, when it started lighting up more of its bridges and opening more entertainment venues.
The recent illumination of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge over the Han River proves that the city’s tremendous efforts are paying off.
Bridge lit by 2,500 LED lights every night
More than ten years ago, the city planned to build a bridge running from Da Nang International Airport (now Nguyen Van Linh Street) straight to the East Sea before merging with Hoang Sa – Truong Sa Street, which leads to Hoi An.
The bridge is of great significance as it is expected to help tap the economic and tourism potentials of Son Tra District, located to the east of the city.
However, the project was initially met with objections, as citizens feared it would be built over the world-renowned Cham Sculpture Museum.
In November 2005, the city government launched an international competition to design the bridge, which would be placed in front of the museum.
The competition drew 17 design proposals from local and foreign companies.
A project submitted by the US’s Louis Berger Group was selected for meeting all the technical requirements, including the required sloping degree and a path for pedestrians.
More importantly, the bridge would be located in front of, not above, the museum under the firm’s design plan.
Da Nang authorities wanted the construction to be shaped like a dragon arching across the river, and named it the Rong (Dragon) Bridge upon its completion one year ago.
The Dragon Bridge, which is made of sculpted steel and measures 666m long and 6m wide, is lit with over 2,500 LED lights every night, which automatically change color for different events and festivals.
The bridge, which cost over VND1,700 billion (US$81.7 million), won the diamond prize at the ACEC New York for its innovation and beauty.
It is the country’s first illumination project to make it to the final round of the UK’s major FX Design Awards in 2013 and Lighting Design Awards in 2014.
A new face
As soon as the Rong Bridge was put into operation in March 2013, it became one of Da Nang’s most appealing attractions.
The bridge is lit up with sparkling lights every night, and water and fire are emitted from the dragon’s mouth every Sunday night.
The bridge significantly adds to the city’s nightly hustle and bustle, as locals and tourists stay up into the wee hours to look at it. Local businesses have thus benefitted from new constructions like the Dragon Bridge.
Dang Thi Co, 65, who lives next to one end of the Rong Bridge in An Hai Tay Commune, opens a beverage shop that caters to tourists who flock to see the bridge emit fire. The job provides quite a good living for her family of seven.
Similarly, Nguyen Thi Bon quit her job as a grower of ornamental plants to run a beverage shop at one end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge for the last six months.
“The number of tourists, including foreigners, has surged recently. The area is always crowded. I do quite well with this job,” Bon said with a smile.
The area is crowded even at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, with young couples sitting hand in hand or posing for photos on the glittering bridge, and elderly people dancing merrily in a garden nearby.
Even traveling photographers, who have struggled to find customers with the increase in smartphones, benefit from the bridge as well.
Some hundred photographers now roam along the Rong, Han, Thuan Phuoc, and Tran Thi Ly Bridges and the surrouding areas every night.
Water music will be another of the city’s new highlights. The entertainment park in Hai Chau District is striving to reach international fame.
Dai Duong Park in Son Tra District will also be a regular hotspot for lighting and water music performances.
The pond inside the 29-3 Park will also sparkle with water music and light performances.
“The city government will attract funding from individuals and provide as much funding as possible to light skycrapers, artery roads, and trees at night. The government will pay all the electricity bills,” said Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy chair of the Da Nang People’s Committee.
He added that in addition to the city’s iconic annual International Fireworks Competition, the city is planning to hold a light festival.
Higher areas such as Son Tra, Hai Van Pass and Ngu Hanh Son Mountain are ideal landscapes to showcase stunning lights.
Da Nang is striving to draw tourists, particularly foreigners, with its amazing light-filled streets that give the locality an edge over other cities in Vietnam.
However, experts have pointed out that the lights should be practical and cater to locals’ everyday needs, including lighting for pedestrians.
The lighting projects are expected to further boost the potential of Da Nang, which has been a significant city for centuries.
In 1617, the land was dubbed “Quang Nam country” by foreigners, including the Chinese, Japanese, French, and Americans, who chose to come to the city first when visiting Vietnam.
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Wanna find good traffic cops in Vietnam? Go to Da Nang
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 07/23/2014
There is a city in Vietnam where non-native traffic violators are allowed to go without receiving a cash fine or having their driver’s licenses confiscated after getting kind guidelines from local police.
A Vietnamese netizen wrote on the forum Otofun, “This is a typical example that civilians want traffic cops [in other areas] to follow.”
About two weeks ago, two traffic policemen in the central city of Da Nang whistled to stop a 30-seat coach after it ran on the Han Bridge which forbids vehicles with 30 seats or more.
However, the coach driver failed to hear the police whistle because of the crowded street then. The cops pulled the vehicle over after it passed the bridge.
To many people’s surprise, the police officers let the coach driver go after realizing he hails from the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
“This violation is subject to a fine of VND1 million (roughly US$50) and the violator will have his license revoked for one month in line with the law,” said Sergeant An, one of the two traffic cops.
“Since the driver comes from another province, we did not give out any penalty and let him go,” An added.
Huu Cuong from Hanoi said he was once taken aback by the good behaviors of the Da Nang traffic policemen when a car carrying him and a friend from Hoi An Ancient Town in neighboring Quang Nam Province mistakenly traveled on a one-way street.
“The cops immediately showed up. After checking our car documents and understanding that we are from Hanoi, they just reminded us of traffic rules and allowed us to go,” Cuong recounted.
The Hanoi citizen later shared his own memorable experience on social networking sites. His story has attracted much attention and been widely circulated.
Xuan, who has sold beverages at a location close to a traffic hot-spot on the western part of the Han Bridge over the last 24 years, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that traffic law breaking acts such as mistakenly traveling on banned roads or wrongly running on the Han Bridge are no longer punishable.
“Most of such violators are given a break,” she said.
It is a city policy that visitors or those coming from other localities will be given guidelines instead of being punished when they violate traffic laws in Da Nang because they are not familiar with the streets here, said Lieutenant Colonel Tran Viet Thanh, a traffic police officer in the central city.
But traffic offenders will be seriously penalized if they are locals, Thanh underscored.
There were times police in Da Nang recorded up to 15 traffic violation cases per day committed by vehicles from other provinces and cities, mostly from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to Tran Quoc Binh, another local traffic cop.
“Since they were not conversant with road directions, we just gave them warnings,” Binh said, adding, “We will not receive respect from such traffic violators if we mete out punishment to them.”
“It is a way to build reputation for Da Nang in the eyes of friends coming from everywhere,” said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Ngoc.
Ngoc elaborated that traffic policemen who are polite and friendly to civilians and visitors would be hailed for their good behaviors in internal regular meetings.
@Viet @Yorozuya Have you guys checked this thread about Danang?
Bloomberg video Wednesday, April 29, 2015
VinaCapital CEO and Founding Partner Don Lam discusses the tech scene in Vietnam and how Da Nang is becoming Vietnam's technology hub. He speaks to Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "Trending Business."
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Da Nang starts construction of Vietnamese "Silicon Valley"
Da Nang starts construction on Vietnamese "Silicon Valley" - Economy - VietNam News
DA NANG (VNS)— The US's Rocky Lai&Associates Inc officially started the construction of the Da Nang Information Technology Park (DITP) in Hoa Vang district on Saturday.
The park, which covers an area of 341ha with total investment of US$278 million, will be the biggest ‘Silicon Valley' in the central region of Viet Nam.
"It's expected that the park will create revenue of $3 billion each year with 25,000 jobs and a satellite city of a 100,000 people," said the vice chairman of Rocky Lai&Associates Inc, Paul Ta.
The park will also include banks, offices, IT research and training centres, production and an IT showroom.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said the establishment of the IT park would help attract investment for economic development.
Chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee Van Huu Chien said: "Da Nang has developed strongly in the IT sector, and it remains a priority for the city's development strategy."
Da Nang is the biggest city after Ha Noi and HCM City to develop centralised information centres.
The city has developed the Quang Trung and Da Nang software parks as centralised centres to attract 140 information technology companies and over 2,000 employees.
Da Nang's Software Park has been recognised as the nation's second centralised IT zone by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
According to the city's information and communications department, the central city's IT businesses earned VND3.2 trillion ($152 million) in revenue and an export turnover of $13.5 million last year. — VNS
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Vietnam’s first e-government information system debuts in Da Nang
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 07/23/2014
The system comprises the information technology (IT) infrastructure, policies, mechanisms, and IT manpower resources, Pham Kim Son, director of the department, said at the inaugural ceremony.
It provides 1,196 online public administrative services of level 2 and 498 others of levels 3 and 4, which cover various fields including investment licenses, drivers’ licenses, and certificates of land use rights.
The e-system also features administrative applications in such fields as traffic management, water quality control, public lighting administration, and others.
It is aimed at enhancing the transparency and efficiency of state administrative agencies’ operations, minimizing bureaucratic delays, and thereby saving time and cost in carrying out administrative procedures for the general public, according to director Son.
The platform also makes a connection between city agencies, grassroots administrations and online public services, he said.
Specifically, the system allows the public to monitor and supervise the process of public administrative services and receive their results quickly and effectively, he specified.
“The system, along with the city’s new administrative center that will be launched in the near future, will enable Da Nang to operate the ‘one-stop’ administrative mechanism rapidly and turn the place into an ‘intelligent city’ soon,” Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said at the inaugural ceremony.
With such a system, the city has become a pioneer nationwide in handling administrative issues online, he said.
In August last year, Da Nang launched its IT infrastructure system, which includes a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), wireless Internet connection, a data center, and a center for human resource training and research on IT applications, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
The city has so far offered free wireless Internet access, with a maximum of 20,000 connections, to the population.
Da Nang is one of the major port cities in central Vietnam and the biggest city on the south central coast of the country.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Da Nang, the stunning city of light
TUOITRENEWS
UPDATED : 03/03/2014
High-end illumination and skillful urban planning are expected to enhance Da Nang’s beauty and increase its tourism appeal.
Located between two of central Vietnam’s major tourist hubs, Hue and Hoi An, Da Nang City has only been considered a tourist destination in recent years.
Visitors used to complain that they did not know where and what to spend money on in the tedious city, apart from a handful of karaoke parlors, mini discotheques, and countless beer shops.
Luckily, things changed when the city began to rotate the Han River Bridge at night.
Locals and tourists increasingly flock to the area to admire the spectacle, and the latter usually choose hotel rooms that offer a good view of the bridge.
The city began to draw a notable increase in tourists, particularly foreigners, when it started lighting up more of its bridges and opening more entertainment venues.
The recent illumination of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge over the Han River proves that the city’s tremendous efforts are paying off.
Bridge lit by 2,500 LED lights every night
More than ten years ago, the city planned to build a bridge running from Da Nang International Airport (now Nguyen Van Linh Street) straight to the East Sea before merging with Hoang Sa – Truong Sa Street, which leads to Hoi An.
The bridge is of great significance as it is expected to help tap the economic and tourism potentials of Son Tra District, located to the east of the city.
However, the project was initially met with objections, as citizens feared it would be built over the world-renowned Cham Sculpture Museum.
In November 2005, the city government launched an international competition to design the bridge, which would be placed in front of the museum.
The competition drew 17 design proposals from local and foreign companies.
A project submitted by the US’s Louis Berger Group was selected for meeting all the technical requirements, including the required sloping degree and a path for pedestrians.
More importantly, the bridge would be located in front of, not above, the museum under the firm’s design plan.
Da Nang authorities wanted the construction to be shaped like a dragon arching across the river, and named it the Rong (Dragon) Bridge upon its completion one year ago.
The Dragon Bridge, which is made of sculpted steel and measures 666m long and 6m wide, is lit with over 2,500 LED lights every night, which automatically change color for different events and festivals.
The bridge, which cost over VND1,700 billion (US$81.7 million), won the diamond prize at the ACEC New York for its innovation and beauty.
It is the country’s first illumination project to make it to the final round of the UK’s major FX Design Awards in 2013 and Lighting Design Awards in 2014.
A new face
As soon as the Rong Bridge was put into operation in March 2013, it became one of Da Nang’s most appealing attractions.
The bridge is lit up with sparkling lights every night, and water and fire are emitted from the dragon’s mouth every Sunday night.
The bridge significantly adds to the city’s nightly hustle and bustle, as locals and tourists stay up into the wee hours to look at it. Local businesses have thus benefitted from new constructions like the Dragon Bridge.
Dang Thi Co, 65, who lives next to one end of the Rong Bridge in An Hai Tay Commune, opens a beverage shop that caters to tourists who flock to see the bridge emit fire. The job provides quite a good living for her family of seven.
Similarly, Nguyen Thi Bon quit her job as a grower of ornamental plants to run a beverage shop at one end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge for the last six months.
“The number of tourists, including foreigners, has surged recently. The area is always crowded. I do quite well with this job,” Bon said with a smile.
The area is crowded even at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, with young couples sitting hand in hand or posing for photos on the glittering bridge, and elderly people dancing merrily in a garden nearby.
Even traveling photographers, who have struggled to find customers with the increase in smartphones, benefit from the bridge as well.
Some hundred photographers now roam along the Rong, Han, Thuan Phuoc, and Tran Thi Ly Bridges and the surrouding areas every night.
Water music will be another of the city’s new highlights. The entertainment park in Hai Chau District is striving to reach international fame.
Dai Duong Park in Son Tra District will also be a regular hotspot for lighting and water music performances.
The pond inside the 29-3 Park will also sparkle with water music and light performances.
“The city government will attract funding from individuals and provide as much funding as possible to light skycrapers, artery roads, and trees at night. The government will pay all the electricity bills,” said Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy chair of the Da Nang People’s Committee.
He added that in addition to the city’s iconic annual International Fireworks Competition, the city is planning to hold a light festival.
Higher areas such as Son Tra, Hai Van Pass and Ngu Hanh Son Mountain are ideal landscapes to showcase stunning lights.
Da Nang is striving to draw tourists, particularly foreigners, with its amazing light-filled streets that give the locality an edge over other cities in Vietnam.
However, experts have pointed out that the lights should be practical and cater to locals’ everyday needs, including lighting for pedestrians.
The lighting projects are expected to further boost the potential of Da Nang, which has been a significant city for centuries.
In 1617, the land was dubbed “Quang Nam country” by foreigners, including the Chinese, Japanese, French, and Americans, who chose to come to the city first when visiting Vietnam.
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Wanna find good traffic cops in Vietnam? Go to Da Nang
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 07/23/2014
There is a city in Vietnam where non-native traffic violators are allowed to go without receiving a cash fine or having their driver’s licenses confiscated after getting kind guidelines from local police.
A Vietnamese netizen wrote on the forum Otofun, “This is a typical example that civilians want traffic cops [in other areas] to follow.”
About two weeks ago, two traffic policemen in the central city of Da Nang whistled to stop a 30-seat coach after it ran on the Han Bridge which forbids vehicles with 30 seats or more.
However, the coach driver failed to hear the police whistle because of the crowded street then. The cops pulled the vehicle over after it passed the bridge.
To many people’s surprise, the police officers let the coach driver go after realizing he hails from the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
“This violation is subject to a fine of VND1 million (roughly US$50) and the violator will have his license revoked for one month in line with the law,” said Sergeant An, one of the two traffic cops.
“Since the driver comes from another province, we did not give out any penalty and let him go,” An added.
Huu Cuong from Hanoi said he was once taken aback by the good behaviors of the Da Nang traffic policemen when a car carrying him and a friend from Hoi An Ancient Town in neighboring Quang Nam Province mistakenly traveled on a one-way street.
“The cops immediately showed up. After checking our car documents and understanding that we are from Hanoi, they just reminded us of traffic rules and allowed us to go,” Cuong recounted.
The Hanoi citizen later shared his own memorable experience on social networking sites. His story has attracted much attention and been widely circulated.
Xuan, who has sold beverages at a location close to a traffic hot-spot on the western part of the Han Bridge over the last 24 years, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that traffic law breaking acts such as mistakenly traveling on banned roads or wrongly running on the Han Bridge are no longer punishable.
“Most of such violators are given a break,” she said.
It is a city policy that visitors or those coming from other localities will be given guidelines instead of being punished when they violate traffic laws in Da Nang because they are not familiar with the streets here, said Lieutenant Colonel Tran Viet Thanh, a traffic police officer in the central city.
But traffic offenders will be seriously penalized if they are locals, Thanh underscored.
There were times police in Da Nang recorded up to 15 traffic violation cases per day committed by vehicles from other provinces and cities, mostly from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to Tran Quoc Binh, another local traffic cop.
“Since they were not conversant with road directions, we just gave them warnings,” Binh said, adding, “We will not receive respect from such traffic violators if we mete out punishment to them.”
“It is a way to build reputation for Da Nang in the eyes of friends coming from everywhere,” said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Ngoc.
Ngoc elaborated that traffic policemen who are polite and friendly to civilians and visitors would be hailed for their good behaviors in internal regular meetings.
@Viet @Yorozuya Have you guys checked this thread about Danang?
