Energy price to increase (20/02/2011)
A spokesperson at the Ministry of Industry and Trade confirmed on Saturday that Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an increase in power price by 15.28 percent for this year.
From April 7-11: Vung Tau to host the third International Kite Festival (19/02/2011)
In the afternoon February 16, Mr.Ho Van Nien, Deputy Provincial Chairman had a meeting with members about hosting the third International Kite Festival Vung Tau- Vietnam 2011
Lim festival lures 30,000 visitors (17/02/2011)
The Lim Festival was officially opened on Feb. 14 (the 12th day of the first lunar month) in the northern province of Bắc Ninh, with the participation of around 30,000 visitors.
VN to build a strategy on climate change (17/02/2011)
PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng requested agencies and localities to early submit their action plan to deal with climate change, then formulating a national strategy on the issue in Việt
VN to enhance housing assistance for poor people (17/02/2011)
Deputy PM Hoàng Trung Hải has asked ministries and localities to fulfill the task of providing housing assistance to poor households right in 2011, one year a head of the preset target.
Tan Cai- Cai Mep Port: First entrance in Lunar New Year by welcoming larger vessels (13/02/2011)
CYKH shipping line sailed from Europe, and first entered Tan Cang – Cai Mep port in the Year of the Cat by the import-export shipment undertaken by the Hanjin Xiamen ship, with tonnage of 80,800 DWT. Imported output is 144 TEUs, and exported out of 44 TEUs. This shipment landed at 17:45, 06 February 2011, i.e. 04 Lunar New Year – 2011.
Vietsovpetro exploits 36 tons of oil (10/02/2011)
In 2011-2015 period, Vietsovpetro aims to exploit 36 million tons of oil. Among that, 29.1 million of oil be exploited in Bach Ho (White Tiger) and Rong (Dragon) fields, increased more 4.2 million of oil in onother avaiable fields. Vietsovpetro also put into operation Thien Ung- Mang Cau fields early in 2013, to rise the yield more and more.
Vietnam to launch int’l initiative on green economy (09/02/2011)
Vietnam will launch an international initiative on a green economy for sustainable development in Hanoi in September, said a Vietnamese diplomat to the UN.
News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos (09/02/2011)
How the moon got its water, plus more in this week’s news
Titan’s cirrus clouds
The Cassini spacecraft has measured the abundance and composition of wispy clouds high in the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn’s frigid moon Titan. The cirruslike ice clouds, which Cassini finds throughout the atmosphere, can be used to trace the changing abundance of icy particles — nitrites and hydrocarbons — at different altitudes and with Titan’s seasons, Carrie Anderson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Robert Samuelson of the University of Maryland in College Park report in an upcoming Icarus. For instance, because gas moves from warmer to colder regions, the wintry northern hemisphere now harbors more ice clouds than the south. —Ron Cowen
Cure found for black streak dwarf disease by a Vietnamese scientist (08/02/2011)
A Vietnamese scientist has found a cure for the southern rice black streak dwarf virus (SRBSDV) transmitted by the white back plant hopper (WBPH) and causing havoc to rice crops in northern Vietnam.
