Vietnam secures 10 grades up in global IT report (16/04/2008)

Vietnam ranks 73rd of 127 economies in the Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on April 9, 10 grades up compared with the ranking a year earlier.

Network Security: A Persistent Problem (02/04/2008)

Network security is a major concern in every country in this age of digital technology and last year was one in which many problems came to light. When 1,400 companies around the world were questioned by McAfee (working with Datamonitor), it was found that 67 percent of companies had lost private data with corresponding negative repercussions and 33 percent have had privacy invasions that could result in their "closing the door".

Checking the project progress: "Scaling up the model of electronic information serving for BR – VT socio-economic development" (02/04/2008)

On August 17, an inspection delegation held by the DoST checked the progress of a project, namely "Scaling up the model of electronic information serving for BR-VT socio-economic development " . The project has been chaired by Eng. Nguyen Kim Truong, the Director of Center of Informatics and S&T Information and carried out during 15 months (from December 2006 to February 2008).

Workshop approved project: Do survey and select longan (Nhan xuong) in BR–VT (31/03/2008)

In March 12, 2008, The DOST BR-VT held a workshop to approve the project called: “Do survey and select longan in BR–VT”. This project has mainly been applied in Vung Tau city, Xuyen Moc and Tan Thanh districts, which was co-headed by PhD. Bui Xuan Khoi, the Director of the Southeast Fruits Center and Agriculture Eng. Nguyen Thi Bach Tuyet, Vice Director of the DOST BR-VT.

Closing ceremony to award a prize in “Technical Creativeness Competition of BR-VT” in 2006-2007 (17/03/2008)

On 20th  February, 2008, Organization Board of Technical Creativeness Competition of BR-VT held a closing ceremony to award a prize of  Technical Creativeness Competition” in Ba Ria – Vung Tau in 2006-2007. The closing ceremony was hold in the meeting hall of Vietsovpetro (105 Lê Lợi St., Ward 6 – Vung Tau city) with the cooperation of the DOST, Provincial Science and Technique Association, Provincial Labour Association and  the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of the province.

Proceedings of IWNA 2007 (08/03/2008)


IWNA 2007 Vung Tau, Vietnam,  November 15-17/2007
Table of contents

Fundamental of nanotechnology

Nanomaterial and processing

The Top Ten ICT Events of 2007 (27/02/2008)

The most important information and telecommunication events of the year were:

Internet data centre to be set up (19/02/2008)

Ha Noi (VNA) – The Quang Trung Software City and DOT VN Ltd., a subsidiary of the DOT VN Inc. from the US, have signed a contract to jointly establish an Internet data centre.

Information on the industrial radiography source related event in Ba Ria - Vung Tau province (19/02/2008)

While doing the radiography work at the construction site for the oil rig Bunga Orkid D (BOD) from 11:30 to 12:30, 28 December 2007, the radiography workers of the Alpha Company dropped a radiation source Ir-192 with the radioactivity 26,68 Ci. The source after that was recovered and placed in the container at 15:40. Since 31 December 2007, the construction site came into normal operation. A report on this incident was submitted by the Ministry of Science and Technology to the Prime Minister on 3 January 2008.

Project checked-up “Study to design and improve 110cc motorbikes into three-wheel motorbikes using gas ..." (19/02/2008)

In January the first, Provincial Science Council held a meeting to check-up a project called “Study to design and improve 110cc motorbikes into three-wheel motorbikes which use gas for collecting and transporting solid waste of inhabitant in BR-VT”, which is chaired by Dr. Truong Thanh Cong, Director of the DoST. This project has been headed by En. Le Minh Hai – Dong Minh Gas Co. Ltd.