Hanoi, Aug. 5 -- The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has officially put into operation its VSTN overland fibre-optic cable line, the first of its kind to connect Vietnam directly with Singapore entirely via land-based infrastructure. Spanning approximately 3,900 kilometres, the VSTN cable passes through five countries - Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. It directly connects VNPT's technical centre in the central city of Da Nang with leading international data centres in the region such as IDC Telehouse of Thailand, MY01 Cyberjaya and Equinix JH01 Johor Bahru of Malaysia, and Equinix and Global Switch of Singapore. VNPT's full control over the entire route, from the origin in Vietnam to the endpoint in Sin...