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Tesla registers local entity, signaling planned entry into Vietnam's EV market

Tesla has set up Tesla Motors Vietnam, a locally registered entity, signaling plans to enter Southeast Asia's largest EV market. It would face steep competition from VinFast, which controls roughly 92% of Vietnam's EV sales and is backed by conglomerate Vingroup.

East German engineers helped build Vietnam's coffee industry in the 1980s

Historian Katja Hoyer recounted how East Germany (GDR), through agrarian specialists like Hellmut Naderer, partnered with Vietnam to establish coffee collectives such as Viet Duc in the mid-1980s. That Cold War-era cooperation laid groundwork that eventually helped Vietnam grow into one of the world's largest coffee producers.

Unsecured Elasticsearch database exposes 220 million airline passenger records tied to Vietnam

Researchers at Kinryƫ Labs found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster called 'pax-info' hosted on Viettel IP space in Hanoi, containing over 220 million passenger and crew entries spanning 2017 to 2026. The data included passport numbers, birthdates, nationalities, flight details, seat assignments and baggage references for travelers of many nationalities passing through Vietnam. BleepingComputer could not confirm exactly which organization operated the system.

Apple opens new Education Center in Vietnam for supply-chain workers

Apple is expanding its $50 million Supplier Employee Development Fund by launching a new Apple Education Center in Vietnam, run in partnership with Hanoi University of Science and Technology. The center will offer technical training in smart manufacturing, robotics and automation, plus leadership and soft-skills courses, mirroring a similar program Apple rolled out in India earlier this year.