Yahoo! officially announced the version of Yahoo! Vietnam

Yesterday afternoon, March 22, 2006, in Singapore, Yahoo! Inc, the world's leading provider of Internet content, organized a press conference to officially announce the use of Yahoo! Vietnam at: www.yahoo.com.vn .

Yahoo! Vietnam provides Vietnamese services on: email, search, chat, news . In it, the news section, Yahoo! selected the partner provided is Tuoi Tre Online.

Along with the introduction of the Vietnamese version of the Yahoo homepage, the company also announced Yahoo! Localization for Indonesia (www.yahoo.co.id,) and the Philippines (www.yahoo.com.ph).

So far, Yahoo! East Asia has all 6 localized sites: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

In the past year, Yahoo! Southeast Asia has continuously updated its content services on all of these versions. Through language localization for Search (search) sections, Yahoo! Mail (email), Yahoo! News (news), Entertainment and Sports (entertainment and sports), Yahoo! is trying to provide the most necessary and relevant information to meet the needs of Internet users in Southeast Asia.

Mr. Reza Behnam, CEO of Yahoo! Southeast Asia said: 'The investment of Yahoo! in localizing services is to make the Internet more suitable for 60 million people in Southeast Asia, as well as with millions of new users growing each year in this region.

Instead of having to create a website or a service that suits all the different needs of users in different countries, Yahoo! will provide specific versions for each country, including maximum localized content to best suit the specific needs of users in that country. '

With the News section (Yahoo! News), Yahoo! will work with the most prestigious partners in each country to provide the latest, best quality news, entertainment, sports . of that locality to provide users with news they are most interested in. With Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! will also work with telecom providers in each country to provide users with SMS alerts, WAP services .

Mr. Larry Jordan, Product Manager of Yahoo! Southeast Asia adds: 'Yahoo! This will help users easily find anything they want on the Internet. Our services will also help users connect to share their ideas and information through computers and mobile phones. "

According to Computer Industry Almanac data published in January 2006, Internet users worldwide will reach 2 billion in 2011, a 100% increase from the end of 2005. Especially in Southeast Asia This development promises to be very spectacular because governments are encouraged to bring information technology to the people.

HOANG HONG