Vietnam to launch first Internet E-commerce next month
HANOI - Vietnam is to launch its first e-commerce Internet website next month as part of moves by the authorities here to catch up with
the explosion of e-commerce worldwide.
The Vietnam Young Enterprises' Council is to launch the website at the beginning of next month, council official Duong Thi Minh
said.
The site, at www.YesVietnamExpo.com.vn, will initially offer domestic customers information and back-up facilities, allowing the
enterprises to communicate online, hold economic forums and make transactions, she said.
By the middle of this year the council will place a server in the United States, to encourage overseas enterprises to use the site.
"There have been 36 domestic enterprises who want to introduce their products and services on the site," Minh said.
He added he hoped "powerful foreign enterprises will participate in the site after the completion of a server system in the United
States in June this year".
Last year Vietnam opened its first two software parks in Ho Chi Minh City and one in the central city of Danang. Officials hope
to open a fourth larger park in Hanoi this year in a bid to boost the flegdling domestic information technology industry.
Vietnam only introduced the Internet in December 1997 and still lags far behind most of its Asian neighbours.
In a country of nearly 78 million people, there are just 103,751 Internet subscribers and government-installed firewalls still block
access to most websites run by emigre Vietnamese.
Agence France Presse - January 2, 2001.
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