Early in 2020 much of the world went into lockdown.
Companies sent workers home to work. Schools sent students
home to study.
As a response, there was a surge in
technology adoption. Often, people, companies and
organisations tried, for the first time, technologies they
had not used before. In others, rarely-used technologies
moved centre stage.
Video-conferencing, online shopping
and streaming were among the technologies where adoption
leapt forward. Cloud and collaboration surged. All became
mainstream overnight. And those that were popular before
lockdown reached the more reluctant users. That’s a group
technology companies can overlook.
Vaulted five
years, ten years
Friday, January 15, 2021, 17:07 GMT+7
Mai Thuy H., 29, from Son La Province, survived after falling off a death cliff in Pai Lung Commune, Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province in this supplied photo. Both provinces are located in northern Vietnam.
Authorities in Meo Vac District under Vietnam s northern province of Ha Giang have banned tourists from approaching and taking photos at a local cliff after a tourist fell from it last week.
The ban was confirmed by Ly Van Dong, chairman of the Pai Lung Commune People’s Committee in Meo Vac, during an inerview with
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Wednesday.
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.
VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 10
10/01/2021 10:22 GMT+7
Ten localities suggest allocating 10,000 tonnes of rice for Lunar New Year
Ten localities suggested allocating nearly 10,000 tonnes of rice for residents during the upcoming Lunar New Year festival, heard a press conference hosted by the General Department of State Reserves in Hanoi on January 8.
In 2020, the general department provided 132,100 tonnes of rice worth over 1.4 trillion VND.
Deputy head of the State Reserves Goods Management Department Pham Viet Ha said when the central region was hit by floods last year, over 19,000 tonnes of rice worth 213 billion VND (9.26 million USD) along with search and rescue equipment valued at around 202.9 billion VND were earmarked for them.
Vietnamese researchers extract DNA from ancient animal bone for first time
By Nguyen Xuan January 9, 2021 | 05:00 pm GMT+7
Samples and relics are retrieved from a volcanic cave in Krong No District, Dak Nong Province. Photo by VnExpress.
A research team from the Central Highlands science program has managed to extract DNA from ancient animal bones for the first time in Vietnam.
The three-year research, part of the 2016-2020 Central Highlands Program, a scientific program entailing dozens of scientific missions to develop the region’s socio-economic situation, extracted the DNA of an animal that lived thousands of years from a bone found in a volcanic cave in Krong No District, Dak Nong Province, the team said on Friday.