Quang Ninh Province has begun strongly investing in science and technology since 2012 to increase the sector’s contribution to the province's industrial production value to 45 percent in 2015 and become a leading province in the Red River Delta in terms of scientific and technological development and application.
Vietnam will rely on the latest advances in technology to ensure that its first nuclear power plant meets the highest possible safety standards, said Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien at a conference to improve communication about nuclear power on August 2.
Farmer households in Bac Giang Province's districts of Yen The and Luc Ngan can earn annual incomes from VND10 to several hundred million from the sale of chicken and litchi due to the accelerated application of scientific and technological achievements into the local agricultural production.
Glass may be a beautiful material, but it is very delicate and fragile. Therefore, people have desired to overcome its material characteristics in order to more widely apply it in daily life. Many countries have been able to do this in practice. In Vietnam, super-strong glass has remained a major challenge. However, the National Institute of Mining-Metallurgy Science and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Trade officially said that super-strong glass technology had been perfected to create heat-resistant bowls, tumblers, bottles and jars.
The 5th Vietnam International Electrical Technology and Equipment Exhibition 2012 (Vietnam ETE 2012) and the Greenergy Expo 2012 opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 25.
The launch of the F-1 cubesat, manufactured by FPT University, from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre on July 21 marks a new milestone in the history of Vietnam’s space industry.
Due to power shortages and high electricity production costs from coal and oil, the Government has speeded up the rate of progress and scale of the first nuclear power projects in Vietnam to generate electricity before 2020. Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan said that the Government has asked Russian and Japanese consultancy agencies to improve safety levels and use the safest technologies for nuclear power plants in Vietnam.
Vietnam has been ranked 76th among 141 countries in overall innovation performance, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2012 published by the business school INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations.
From 3 to 5 July, the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) in collaboration with the U.S Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) organized the Fourth international meeting on Next Generation Safeguards. Deputy Director General of VARANS Le Quang Hiep came to attend and add
The Ministry of Science and Technology held a conference to review the action plan for preventing and handling intellectual property rights violations (Plan 168). According to the Ministry of Science and Technology's latest statistics, 4,577 intellectual property right violations were discovered by inspectors in ministries and local authorities.
