East Asia promotes green technology (08/06/2010)

Bridge - Sustainable development and green growth are key issues in economic growth models in the world, including East Asia.

IT infrastructure targeted (08/06/2010)

BridgePrime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Information and Communications to complete submissions for a Government strategy to upgrade the country’s information technology (IT) infrastructure by 2020 by this Thursday

18,000 Beeline mobile subscribers register over 100 years old (08/06/2010)

Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has released initial results about its inspection of three mobile operators’ management of pre-paid subscribers, which was carried out in April 2010.
During the inspection, the ministry examined 26,093 bureaus and 143,020 agents of three minor cell phone networks - Gtel, S-Fone and EVN Telecom. Inspectors collected 1.1 billion dong (US$58,000) of fines and 4980 SIM cards which were already registered, though they had not been sold yet.

NASA Center for Climate Simulation: Data Supporting Science (03/06/2010)

Debuting in spring 2010, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is the new name for a Goddard Space Flight Center organization that has provided supercomputing resources to NASA scientists and engineers for over 25 years
"Computation here at Goddard is primarily to create datasets and make them available for science researchers around the world," said Phil Webster, chief of Goddard's Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office, which includes NCCS. With climate and weather modeling representing the bulk of NCCS computing, the new name reflects "our mission to support NASA Earth science." 

NASA Announces First Lunabotics Competition Winners (03/06/2010)

University students tune up their remote-controlled lunabots at the Kennedy Visitor Complex's Astronaut Hall of Fame. Image Credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Montana State University, Bozeman, Mont., was the first place and overall winning team in NASA's first Lunabotics Mining Competition. Twenty-two teams of college students tested their robot designs in a 'head-to-head' challenge held at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, May 27-28.

Training course on skills for computer network administration organized in Vungtau (02/06/2010)

On April 12, Center for Advaced Application of Science and Technology under DOST Baria-Vungtau in combination with BKNET HCM City organized the 6-day training course for network administrators of departments and districts in Baria-Vungtau province.

Microsoft and VN shake hand in IT (30/05/2010)

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) officially publicized on March 17 the Program to realize the Agreement on strategic partnership between State and enterprises signed with Microsoft.
Accordingly, Microsoft will support Việt Nam to build up an intellectual economy through developing e-government infrastructure and training IT skills.

Approving draft of two projects belonging to programme “supporting small & medium sized enterprises to innovate equipment and technology in 2010” (30/05/2010)

On May 12th, 2010, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Department of Science & Technology organized a conference to approve the draft of two projects named “supporting enterprises to innovate equipment & technology in 2010”.

Acceptance of project “enlarging lightning-resistant model in Xuyen Moc and Dat Do Districts” (30/05/2010)

On May 20th, 2010, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Department of Science & Technology organized scientific Board to accept project “Enlarging lightning-resistant model in Xuyen Moc and Dat Do districts”, headed by Dr. Nguyen Xuan Anh and implemented by Science & Technology Advance Application Center. 

Results of Science & Technology Operation at district level in 2009 and plan in 2010 (30/05/2010)

On April 1st, 2010 Department of Science & Technology organized the conference to summarize Science & Technology operation at district level in 2009 and approval of plan in 2010 with presence of economic departments’ representatives: Con Dao District, Ba Ria Town, Vung Tau City and industry & trade sections  of districts: Tan Thanh, Chau Duc, Xuyen Moc, Long Dien, Dat Do.