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Vietnam's Tech Boom: a Look Inside Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley

Posted by samzenpus on from the growing-bigger-everyday dept.

rjmarvin writes: Vietnam is in the midst of a tech boom. The country's education system is graduating thousands of well-educated software engineers and IT professionals each year, recruited by international tech companies like Cisco, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, LG, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and others setting up shop in the southern tech hub of Ho Chi Minh City and the central coastal city of Da Nang. Young Vietnamese coders and entrepreneurs are also launching more and more startups, encouraged by government economic policies encouraging small businesses and a growing culture around innovation in the country.

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  1. Re:Is there anywhere that isn't having a tech boom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh... no it isn't. I'm an American liiving in Hanoi right now. Here is how this works:
    Step 1: Do not criticize the communist party
    Step 2: Have fun.

    Break step 1 and you might have a bad time,especially if you do it as a vietnamese person in vietnamese publications. But other than that - go nuts.

    That's pretty much it. It's capitalism central over here, growth is crazy high, infrastructure is surprisingly good across the whole country. Pollution isn't bad (at least in Hanoi,can't speak to Saigon).

    If you want to know the difference, try using Google's play store in china - walled. Try accessing a lot of foreign sites in china - walled. Here I've got no issues at all. Almost nothing is blocked and my VPNs are never blocked at all. I can dial into the USA and watch netflix no problem.

    Oh, and I have a person 45mb fiber line for $40 a month. It rocks.