2020: the year for Vietnamese streamers, YouTubers Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
12/01/2021 14:00 GMT+7
In 2020,YouTubers and streamers stepped out into the light and became the focus of public opinion.
Tran Thanh Tam (left) and Khoa Vuong
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workplace and entertainment activities shifted online.
TikTok became popular a few years ago around the world, but during Covid-19, the app became more visible and had more than 2 billion downloads and one of the highest revenues of any app.
TikTok fever fell somewhat in India and the US, where the Chinese app ran into trouble. But TikTok has been growing well in Vietnam.
Scientists use brown rice and silkworm as base to grow cordycep in Ha Giang Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
10/01/2021 10:05 GMT+7
Brown rice and silkworms can be used as a growing base for cordycep muhrooms, which are very expensive and seen as ‘soft gold’. Cordyceps has made people in the northern province of Ha Giang rich.
Cordyceps is of the fungi genus that includes about 600 species. All Cordyceps species are parasites of mainly insects and other arthropods, while a few are parasites of other fungi. In winter, the parasites live in pathogens. In summer, when temperatures rise, the mushroom grows into a plant.
Abnormally tall 11-year-old boy diagnosed with Marfan syndrome Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
09/01/2021 07:00 GMT+7
An 11-year-old boy from Thanh Hoa province was taken recently to E Hospital in Hanoi because his family was concerned about his abnormal height and long fingers and toes, as well as a protruding chest.
The mother of the boy said he was healthy, but his limbs and height had grown at an abnormal rate. No other members in the family were that tall.
Dr Nguyen Dinh Lien, head of the Kidney Surgery – Urology and Andrology at E Hospital in Hanoi, said after the examination that the boy suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects connective tissue.
Telecom providers handle thousands of spam calls in 2020 Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
09/01/2021 13:20 GMT+7
As many as 17,290 subscribers sending spam calls were handled in December 2020, according to the Authority of Telecommunications (AoT) under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).
Of these, 45 percent of spam calls were settled by Viettel, 7 percent by MobiFone, 1 percent by Vietnamobile, and 0.5 percent by I Telecom.
Viettel prevented 7,844 subscribers from delivering spam calls, VNPT 7,301 and MobiFone 1,155.
AoT in July 2020 sent a document on preventing spam calls to telecom carriers. In the document, the watchdog agency described ‘spam calls’ and pointed out the responsibilities of telecom carriers in preventing the behavior of delivering spam calls and protecting consumers.
As many as 5,168 cyber-attacks were recorded on information systems in Vietnam in 2020, a year-on-year decline of 0.15 percent, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).