Viet Nam’s university startup ecosystem is receiving a major boost with the launch of UniVentures, a regional innovation programme initiated by BLOCK71 of the National University of Singapore (NUS) in collaboration with Temasek Foundation, and supported by the National Innovation Centre (NIC), Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore Global Network, Google Cloud, IBM and Reactor School.

Global gold prices fell sharply on August 20 as investors rushed to take profits, trading at 3,324.3 USD per ounce. In the domestic market, SJC gold bar prices reversed its upward trend, dropping by 200,000 VND per tael and was listed at 124.8 million VND per tael. Meanwhile, SJC gold ring prices remained unchanged compared with the previous session, trading at 119.3 million VND per tael.