HA NOI (VNS) — Bkav Corporation yesterday launched the first made-in-Vietnam smartphone, Bphone, which was in development for more than four years. With a flat design, the phone has a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 with a speed of up to 2.5 GHz, and RAM Sky Hynic 3GB LPDDR3, and eMMC 5.0 flash storage of Toshiba. It comes with a 5-megapixel front camera and a 13-megapixel rear camera with OmniVision sensor. Bphone has the same technology used in global high-end smartphones. For example, it provides Fast Tracking Auto Focus that allows users to take photos and get them in focus later. According to Bkav Hardware Division’s vice president Vu Thanh Thang,…
Fisheries sector urged to improve production technologies
HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam’s fisheries industry should better utilise modern production technologies to improve its competitiveness in the global market, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Cao Duc Phat at a conference last Saturday. The minister said that, though the fisheries industry made some remarkable achievements, it has performed less than expected, especially in applying the world’s advanced technologies for the sector including the breeding. He said that research institutions had not made the best use of the state budget to help developing the industry. He stressed the importance of improving technology available to Vietnamese fishermen, who are responsible for 130,000 fishing boats at sea. However,…
The consumer price index (CPI) for May showed an increase of 0.16 percent over April
The consumer price index (CPI) for May showed an increase of 0.16 percent over April and a year-on-year surge of 0.95 percent, the General Statistics Offices (GSO) said on May 24. Hence, average CPI in the first five months of 2015 increased 0.83 percent compared to the same period last year. According to Deputy Director of GSO’s Pricing Statistics Department, Do Bich Ngoc, the rise in May’s CPI is mainly due to the hike in petrol price on May 5, which contributed to a 0.08 percent increase in the CPI. The rise in electricity price in March plus surging electricity use due to hot weather also pushed the CPI up…