Sci-Tech

International workshops on nuclear power in Vietnam
31/03/2009 05:00
Vietnam cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) to organise two important workshops on nuclear power in March. Vietnam’s future nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan province....
MSG makers again found polluting Rao Tro River
31/03/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Monosodium glutamate producers Vedan had been caught discharging untreated waste water into the Rao Tro River, Ha Tinh Province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment said last Saturday. The factory in the province had planned a...
GM crops to cushion food security
30/03/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – The expected introduction of genetically modified plants into the Vietnamese market in 2015 will give consumers more choice, says director of the Agricultural Genetics Institute Associate Professor Le Huy Ham. Farmers in Le Loi District, Kon Tum...
Nine new species discovered in Can Gio mangrove forest
30/03/2009 05:00
Scientists from the Tropical Biology Institute have discovered nine new species of amphibians-reptiles in the Can Gio mangrove forest in the southern province of Dong Nai. The nine new species include: water toad, green racophorus, black gecko, grey...
Australians to save watermelon in Nghe An
29/03/2009 05:00
The central province of Nghe An’s Plant Protection Agency has invited experts from Sydney University, Australia, to save the province’s watermelon patches. Australian experts will go to Nghe An this April to make surveys and devise measures to rescue...
Mekong Delta: salt water deeply encroaches on land
29/03/2009 05:00
Sea water is attacking major rivers in the Mekong Delta, worrying local farmers with the third-season rice crop coming. Deputy Director of the Hydrometeorology Centre of Ca Mau province, Tran Tien Dung, said that the salinity measured at Song Doc...
Kaiser Vietnam commits software infringement
26/03/2009 05:00
A wood processing company in the southern province of Binh Duong, Kaiser Vietnam, was discovered to be using cracked software products worth nearly VND1 billion ($58,800). Inspectors checked computers at the office of Kaiser Vietnam on March 24....