Award-winning female lecturer devotes whole life to science
Associate Professor Truong Thanh Huong, senior lecturer at the Hanoi Medical University and expert at the Vietnam National Heart Institute under Bach Mai Hospital, has been given Vietnam’s 2020 Kovalevskaya Award
Vietnam strictly controls vehicle emissions to improve air quality
The Ministry of Transport has implemented a series of measures to control the emission of pollutants from motor vehicles, Head of the ministry’s Department of Environment, Tran Anh Duong, has said.
Hanoi to relocate polluting factories from downtown in 2021-25
Hanoi has set up a list of 90 industrial establishments that have to be moved out of the inner city.
Female lecturer, scientists win Kovalevskaya Award 2020
The Kovalevskaya Award 2020 on March 5 was given to a female lecturer of the Hanoi-based Medical University and a group of female scientists of the Institute of Natural Product Chemistry who have gained great achievement in research works.
Da Nang City urges protection of endangered primate population
Authorities of Son Tra District, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation and GreenViet, have started researching the protection of the rhesus macaque monkey to drive troupes of monkeys back to the Son Tra Nature Reserve, Da Nang.
Sci-tech strengthens Vietnam’s shield against pandemic
Vietnam got through 2020 as one of only a few to fulfil the dual goals of containing the COVID-19 pandemic and developing its economy.
Facebook, Google, YouTube likely obliged to pay taxes in Vietnam
Foreign tech giants like Facebook, Google, and YouTube will have to pay taxes in Vietnam under a draft circular, after years of invoicing their revenues out of the country.
Map for national innovative startup ecosystem makes debut
The Office for National Program No.844 – Initiative for Startup Ecosystem in Vietnam (ISEV) has just introduced the first map for the national innovative startup ecosystem 2021. This map is a collection of hundreds of organizations, agencies and businesses, both domestic and international, state
COVID-19 tracing app Bluezone sees over 30 million downloads
More than 30 million smartphone users had downloaded Bluezone, a locally-developed app that helps determine if a person has come in contact with a COVID-19 patient, as of 11:30 am on March 2.
Poor air quality forecast between March 1-6 in the north
The air quality between March 1 and 6 in north-eastern localities and the Hong (Red) River delta as well as Thanh Hoa Province is forecast to be poor.
Is Xiaomi setting up an assembly factory in Vietnam?
Xiaomi Vietnam has not issued a comment on the news reported by some local press agencies that it is building an assembly factory in Vietnam.
Lecturer the youngest female associate professor at 34
Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha, a lecturer at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, was named the youngest female associate professor of 2020 in Vietnam.