Recycled robot wins top honor (23/09/2009)

Vu Van Thang, 19, from Thai Binh province has won one of the five top prizes at the National Creativeness Competition for Children and Youth 2009 for his robot made entirely from items found in the trash.

 

First day without plastic bags in Vietnam (09/09/2009)

Today, September 9, all stores on Le Loi street, Hoi An ancient city in the central province of Quang nam, are using sedge and paper bags instead of plastic bags.

“Team to light the DK1 Housing Platform" (08/09/2009)

Although the weather was not favorable, last night September 06, thousands of Vung Tau people still went out in the rain to participate in the exchange program “Team to light the DK1 Housing Platform" as a word of gratitude to soldiers under the most dangerous position.

Intellectual property rights to be protected (01/09/2009)

An organisation to protect intellectual property rights is expected to be set up in Viet Nam by the end of the year.

Radio VOV launches East Sea broadcasting services (29/08/2009)

Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) on August 29 officially launched its broadcasting services to the East Sea with the presence of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

PetroVietnam, Russia’s Zarubezhneft ink new deals (29/08/2009)

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and Russia’s OAO Zarubezhneft Company on Aug. 28 signed a number of cooperation agreements.

Over 700 companies to attend Techmart Vietnam ASEAN+3 (22/08/2009)

Some 734 enterprises have registered to participate in the Techmart Vietnam ASEAN + 3 exhibition, which will run from September 17-20 in Hanoi, the organisers reported on August 18.

Vietnam succeeds in farming medicinal mushroom (20/08/2009)

The HCMC Center for Reishi and Medicinal Mushrooms Research has successfully grown the Thuong Hoang mushroom which has active elements that can help treat cancers, especially in the breast, liver, and stomach. 

107 initiatives - patents have been applied in practice at Vietsovpetro (10/08/2009)

This is a number that Vietsovpetro stated at the Closing Ceremony of initiatives – patents in period of 2006 to 2008. According to the general, in recent years more and more initiatives - patents of the Enterprise have been applied and very timely to practical production, contributing greatly to the completion of production planning of the unit.

HCM City to have “Internet city” inside hi-tech park (07/08/2009)

The “Internet city” project will be finalised in June 2011 in the HCM City Hi-tech Park, reported the park’s management board.