Sci-Tech

Dutch experts advise on dealing with rising sea
01/04/2010 05:00
LookAtVietnam – It was high time for Viet Nam, especially Mekong Delta provinces, to put climate change on top of its list of concerns. Two women row a boat along a road in Dam Doi District in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau. The Mekong Delta will be...
Water quality in Ha Noi’s lakes getting better: official
01/04/2010 05:00
LookAtVietnam – The water quality in seven of Ha Noi’s lakes earmarked for renovation had improved markedly after months of dredging and cleaning. Cleaning the West Lake. The water quality in seven of Ha Noi’s lakes earmarked for renovation had...
Fish dead from pollution in Truc Bach Lake
01/04/2010 05:00
Fish died en masse in Hanoi’s Truc Bach Lake from March 20-23 because of seriously polluted water, announced Hanoi Environment Protection Bureau Chief Nguyen Van Luong on March 31. According to testing results, the contents of dissolved oxygen in the...
Summer 2010 to be very hot
31/03/2010 05:00
The highest temperatures of summer 2010 will exceed 40 degrees, predicted National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre Deputy Director Nguyen Lan Chau. Hanoi’s Red River becomes exhausted. “It is highly possible that April and May will have...
Mekong River Committee gains two new officials
30/03/2010 05:00
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has appointed a deputy foreign minister and a deputy minister of natural resources and environment as vice-chairs for the Vietnam Mekong River Committee. Farmers in the Mekong River Delta are facing the encroachment of salt...
US-Vietnam forge nuclear energy cooperation
30/03/2010 05:00
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Dang Dinh Tien and US Ambassador Michael Michalak on March 30 signed a memorandum of understand on nuclear energy cooperation. Tien regards that signing as demonstrating the two government’s views on using...
New lizard species discovered in Central Highlands
29/03/2010 05:00
This species of lizard lives in tropical evergreen forests at heights of over 1000 meters in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum. A Pseudocalotes ziegleri lizard (photo: Nguyen Quang Truong). The new species belongs to the Pseudocalotes family...