Sci-Tech

Corporates find energy saving funds hard to reach
17/02/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Medium and small enterprises in HCMC are having trouble accessing funds to deploy energy conservation activities due to the high requirements for borrowing money, said an official of the HCMC Energy Conservation Center (ECC). Lam Thanh Trung...
HCM City to have technology trading floor
17/02/2009 05:00
A stall at a technology fair for industrial zones in HCM City. Officials of the HCM City Department of Science and Technology and representatives of IDG Ventures Vietnam Fund discussed the establishment of a technology trading floor in HCM City on February...
$647mil HCM City dike, drain project set for 2009
17/02/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – The building of a system of dykes and drains at an estimated cost of more than VND11.5 trillion (US$647 million) to protect HCM City and neighbouring Long An Province from floods and high tides is scheduled to begin this year. A street in HCM...
A Saturday night that won’t hurt the Earth
16/02/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – So far 377 cities out of 74 countries worldwide have signed up to the WWF’s Earth Hour – double the total last year. To mark the first year Viet Nam is to take part in the event, Viet Nam News talked to young people across the country Energy...
Nation’s first stem cell bank inaugurated
15/02/2009 05:00
Mekostem, Vietnam’s first stem cell bank, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb. 15, offering services of cell collection, analysis and separation, and preservation of stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood and umbilical membrane. Mekostem,...
Vietnam successfully grows Japanese melon
13/02/2009 05:00
The Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute harvested 32 Fujiura melons from 16 vines, the largest fruit weighed 10 kilograms. Fujiura melons, they are numbered in order of harvesting with the weight of the melon below. (Photo: SGGP) The...
Designer seeks to build mobile homes for poor people
13/02/2009 05:00
A mobile home designed and fabricated by architect Ho Van Tho won the “New construction idea” prize from the Ho Chi Minh City Architects Association last year. Architect Ho Van Tho in front of a mobile home designed and fabricated himself. (Photo: SGGP)...