Sci-Tech

Reduce, reuse, recycle
22/12/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam will collect, reuse and recycle most of its solid waste by using environmentally friendly methods by 2050, and minimise . . . Workers sort waste at the Trang Cat solid waste facility in Hai Phong. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...
Vietnam must “remember” regenerated energy
22/12/2009 05:00
Vietnam has the best wind resources in Southeast Asia and it has 2000-2500 sunny hours a year, but Vietnam has yet to explore these sources of energy. Deputy Minister of Science and Technology and the chief of the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park Nguyen Van Lang said that...
$60 million more for combating climate change
21/12/2009 05:00
Denmark and the UNDP have offered 60 million in non-refundable aid in addition to a preferential loan of $450 million from the Japanese government to assist Vietnam in coping with climate change. Speaking at a press conference on December 19 about the...
Vietnam copes with climate change in foreign lens
21/12/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is among 11 countries that suffer the most from climate change. Foreign reporters recorded Vietnamese ways to adapt themselves to climate change. HCM City is the largest city in Vietnam . The city is below sea level so it...
VN children speak out at climate talks
20/12/2009 05:00
Twelve-year-old Le Huyen Minh from Quang Binh raised her voice together with five others representatives from Viet Nam at the Children’s Climate Forum 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Twelve-year-old Le Huyen Minh from the central province of Quang Binh...
Hanoi’s symbolic lake may be dredged completely in January 2010
20/12/2009 05:00
Hoan Kiem Lake may be dredged entirely in January 2010. Vietnam has engaged German technology and trained staff to implement this task, said the director of the Hanoi Department of Science and Technology. According to Rao, the experimental...
Green firms promised tax breaks
20/12/2009 05:00
Vinamilk employees work on a production line. Green enterprises and co-operatives will enjoy tax incentives as the Government seeks to encourage them to use environmentally-friendly technologies. Green enterprises and co-operatives will enjoy tax...