• China AIDS death toll up nearly 20,000 in a year 

    China AIDS death toll up nearly 20,000 in a year 

    28/11/2010 05:00

    Visitors look at displays last month in a “creative condom” exhibition staged in Beijing to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year,...

  • Work starts on France, VN satellite project

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Work on the first Viet Nam-France satellite officially began yesterday with a ceremony in Ha Noi to announce that preparations for the US$77.4 million three-year project were complete. The VNREDSat-1 would monitor natural resources, the environment and potential...

  • Vietnam’s NISCI and IBM collaborate for Cloud Computing Leapfrog

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) today shakes hand with IBM to promote cloud computing in Vietnam. NISCI will select IBM’s hardware, software and cloud solutions and implementation services to...

  • Government tackles harmful pesticide issue

    27/11/2010 05:00

    The Prime Minister has signed a decision regulating the treatment and prevention of environmental pollution caused by plant protection substances. According to a 2007 survey from the Centre for Consultancy and Environmental Protection under the Viet Nam Sciences and...

  • Kien Giang destroys mountains in Mekong Delta biosphere reserve to make cement

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Rock mining has leveled mountains at a UNESCO biosphere reserve along the coast of Kien Giang Province even as cement factories severely pollute the environment, residents say. Nguyen Thuy Linh, a resident of Kien Luong District, said mines explode every day at the...

  • Mining company fined for sludge release 

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Cao Bang Minerals and Metallurgy Company has been fined VND100 million (US$5,130) for flooding farmland with waste sludge earlier this month.   Nguyen Hoang Anh, chairman of the northern mountainous province, said the...

  • $67,000 stolen from ATM in third heist in Vietnam 

    27/11/2010 05:00

    Techcombank officials inspect an ATM from which $67,000 was stolen on Friday A safe containing nearly VND1.3 billion (US$67,000) was stolen from an ATM kiosk in Ho Chi Minh City Friday morning, VnExpress reported.   The thief...

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