January 21, 2012
A Vietnamese scientist and his colleagues in Ho Chi Minh City have introduced a generator powered by water with the application of nanotechnology. The generator,which is said to be a first in Vietnam, if not the world, was introduced by Dr. Nguyen Chanh Khe, deputy director of the Research and Development Center, at the Saigon Hi-tech Park, [...]
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January 21, 2012
The Raffles International Training Center Hanoi has been fined and ordered to suspend its illegal diploma and bachelor courses, more than two weeks after similar action was taken against its sister organization in for the same violations. According to its registration license, the center can open short vocational courses in English, Marketing, Business Administration, [...]
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January 18, 2012
Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress. Written [...]
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January 17, 2012
A US professor and an honored advocate for increased healthcare services for Vietnam’s rural communities died from a stroke Friday at 74. Before she died, Judith Ladinsky expressed her wish that her ashes be spread in Vietnam, the country she supported unceasingly since 1980. As a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University [...]
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January 16, 2012
Many overseas Vietnamese scientists have been returning to the country in recent years to work in education and research, and they are troubled by the indifference shown towards both pure science and their return. Educational institutions needed to be more enthusiastic about pure science or the country would suffer a severe brain drain that could last for a [...]
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January 16, 2012
Chimpanzees at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: Tuoi Tre). Two chimpanzees were placed on display at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The endangered primates came to Vietnam from from a Japanese zoo, with the male weighing 70 [...]
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January 16, 2012
 A Vietnamese has won second prize in an international online computer-case modifying contest, VnExpress reported Thursday. According to the newswire, Nguyen Dinh Ban received 273 out of 4,000 votes cast in the contest held by world-famous forum bit-tech.net and sponsored by Intel and Lamptron as well as others. Ban’s ROG Rampage received only [...]
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January 14, 2012
One of the pleasures, and risks, of attending the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show is seeing a bunch of new products that look incredibly cool. Why a risk? Because things that look incredibly cool under carefully controlled conditions in Las Vegas sometimes turn out to be less than stellar successes by the time they hit [...]
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January 11, 2012
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has hauled up four educational institutions, including a Singaporean one, and fined some of them for illicitly offering degree and higher-level courses though they are not licensed to do so. Raffles in Vietnam, a member of the Singaporean-owned Education Corporation, is permitted by the Ho Chi Minh [...]
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January 11, 2012
An Irrawaddy dolphin A group of the precious dolphin species Irrawaddy has been spotted at Kien Giang biosphere reserve in southern Vietnam. The group of around 20 dolphins were found around the Ba Lua islands, completely separated from other Irrawady groups at Thailand’s coastal lake Songkhla and in the Mekong River upstream, news website VietNamNet [...]
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Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm
Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress. Written [...]
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