• Local chip embedded in maritime monitoring system

    19/09/2009 05:00

    A research center from Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietnam National University has successfully introduced a locally produced 8-bit microchip into a local maritime remote monitoring system. A pilot project recently carried out in the southern province of Vung...

  • Deadly alcohol menaces Dong Thap

    19/09/2009 05:00

    86% of Vietnamese spirit (ruou) samples collected from 96 home-distilleries in 12 localities in Dong Thap have been found to contain levels of toxic alcohol. Authorities in the southern province of Bac Lieu incinerate illicit alcohol. Home-distillers in the...

  • Policy change threatens rubber nurseries

    19/09/2009 05:00

    Three firms in Lai Chau Province are in serious disagreement with the local government after a change in the province’s rubber tree development policy, Workers plant rubber trees in the northern province of Lai Chau. A change in the province’s development...

  • SOCIAL IN BRIEF 19/9

    18/09/2009 05:00

    EU offers Vietnam EUR15 million to improve heathcare services; MoIT calls for investment in renewable energy; Regional police ‘link up’ on int’l crime database; Construction supervisor arrested for allegedly taking bribes EU offers Vietnam 15 million euro to...

  • Zoo’s tiger exhibit closed after tiger kills worker

    18/09/2009 05:00

    A tiger at the Dai Nam Zoo in the southern province of Binh Duong. A zoo in Binh Duong Province has been asked to shut down and strengthen its tiger enclosures after a tiger killed a worker last week. Experts had warned the cages were unsafe two years ago....

  • Hanoi 1,000th birthday celebrations could be marred by delays

    18/09/2009 05:00

    An artist’s impression of Thanh Tri Bridge, which is under construction and unlikely to be completed in time for the celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary in 2010. Half of the 66 projects planned for the celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi’s...

  • Well-funded works to miss 1000th anniversary deadline in Hanoi

    18/09/2009 05:00

    The Van Cao – Ho Tay Street is one of the projects that will not be finished as planned by the 1000th anniversary of Hanoi. Several construction projects receiving preferential funds in Hanoi will not be finished in time...

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