More foreign garment and textile investors are stitching up investment deals in Vietnam as production costs rise in China. Vietnam is no longer hanging off China’s coat-tails in the material world.

Last week, Hai Duong provincial People’s Committee licensed a joint venture between Pacific Vietnam Textile Limited and Crystal Corporation to build garment and textile complex at the cost of USD180 million.

Vietnam has been warned that it will not succeed in building up an e-government and become an information technology power if it cannot settle the current deficiency of information security experts.

Lacking security experts – a serious hole

In fact, lacking information security experts is the big problem of almost countries now, when the “information war” tends to escalate, and the cyberspace has become a new “battle”. And Vietnam is not an exception.