Local S&T News

Vietnam may have nuclear power by 2020 (01/09/2009)

Plans are moving forward for Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant. Dr. Le Van Hong, Vice Chief of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, talked with Thanh Nien Online about the development of nuclear power plants in Vietnam.

Nation short of skilled IT workers (01/09/2009)

Viet Nam’s IT workforce is lacking in professional skills, experience and proficiency in foreign languages and the shortage is holding back the industry’s development.

WITFOR 2009 successfully ends in Vietnam (01/09/2009)

The fourth World IT Forum (WITFOR 2009) in Hanoi was closed on August 28 after three working days.

How to boost Vietnam’s IT? (27/08/2009)

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) is developing a scheme to turn Vietnam into a powerful country in terms of telecommunications and information technology. The Vietnam Economic Times talks with Do Trung Ta, the Prime Minister’s IT envoy cum chief of the National Steering Board for IT, about this scheme.

Scientists discuss nuclear power in Vietnam (25/08/2009)

Some 240 experts from 40 foreign and local organisations participated in the 8th national conference on nuclear technology and science in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, from August 20-23.

Viet Nam plans to be IT powerhouse (19/08/2009)

Viet Nam plans to become one of the world’s most powerful countries in the information and communication technology industry, according to Le Doan Hop, Minister of Information and Communications.

Testing successfully a model of breeding seabass (11/08/2009)

Mr. Vu Dinh Chuan who resides in Nam Hai Village – Tan Hai Commune, Tan Thanh District, is selected to experiment with the model. Indeed, previously, Mr. Chuan had kept seabass in the area used previously for keeping shrimp but failed. However as well as the shrimp before, the seabass breeding by him also failed, leading to some surface area of his is unused and waste.

Preliminary wrap-up 3-year collaboration activities between BR-VT Farmers Association and the DoST (11/08/2009)

On the date of July 2nd, 2009 the conference of preliminary wrap-up of stage 1 (2006 - 2009) the co-ordinate program between the Vietnam Farmers Association of Baria-Vungtau Province and the Provincial Department of Science and Technology has been conducted.

6 enterprises supported expense in order to build ISO, HACCP standards (11/08/2009)

According to information from Department for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control of Baria-Vungtau Province, in the stage 1 in 2009, 14 enterprises have filed for supporting expenditure of registration to build a quality management system of ISO, HACCP.

There have been 6 enterprises which are reviewed and provided expense including: T.D.C Ltd Company (ISO 22000), Vungtau Oil Services Company (HACCP), Song Hong Ltd Company (ISO 9001:2008), Nhat Nam Ltd Company (ISO 9001:2000), the Branch of Nhat Nam Mechanical Factory (ISO 14001:2004), South-Eastern Asia Paint Ltd Company (ISO 14001:2004).

IT prodigies honoured (06/08/2009)

An awards ceremony for the “IT competition for young people” has been held in Hanoi Municipal Theatre.

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