ICT foes jostle for pole position in tech race 08:00 | 18/12/2020 As mobile phone usage explodes in Vietnam, online shopping and other services become more advanced, Photo: shutterstock HCL Technologies, one of the three largest Indian IT groups, at last weekâs meeting with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), announced that it will open an office in Hanoi in January, with the plan to increase its staff to 8,000 employees in the next four years. Sanjay Gupta, corporate vice president of HCL, expressed his ambition to turn Vietnam into the companyâs largest IT hub in Southeast Asia, developing and using Vietnamese human resources and high-tech services for multinational corporations.