January 16, 2012
Experts at a HCMC university's petrochemistry center check a motorbike as part of ongoing investigations into recent vehicular fires. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday ordered related agencies to take urgent steps including checking fuel quality in the market to determine the cause of mysterious vehicular fires. Dodgy fuel is the latest suspect in [...]
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November 12, 2011
Auto industry insiders say authorities have given an unfair tax advantage to Hyundai Thanh Cong, allowing the car maker to import whole frames at low tariffs applicable only to separate components. According to Hyundai Thanh Cong, which assembles and imports models of the South Korean car maker Hyundai, the company was allowed to import [...]
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September 4, 2011
A woman sits at her shop selling generators in downtown Hanoi. Last week, Vietnam’s ninth national conference on nuclear power wrapped up in the south central province of Ninh Thuan with local and international experts pointing out many factors that pose risks to the country’s first atomic power plants scheduled to begin construction in 2014. [...]
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September 1, 2011
Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred on safety considerations. Serious [...]
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August 19, 2011
Vietnam’s technology ministry has asked that a seismic study be undertaken at the proposed site of the country’s first two nuclear power plants in the central province of Ninh Thuan, the Institute of Geological Sciences said Wednesday. The Ministry of Science and Technology asked for the study after scientists warned about tsunami and earthquake risks to the project’s location, [...]
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July 9, 2011
Two officers of HCMC Preventive Health Center take water samples from the Saigon River for testing. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Local scientists raised concern yet again over alarming levels of pollution in the Sai Gon River at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The conference, held by HCMC Department of Science and [...]
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April 11, 2011
Simulated image of anticipated nuclear fallout from Japan released by the Ministry of Science and Technology on Sunday (April 10) A plume from Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear power plant would enter Vietnam Saturday night, but wouldn’t pose risks to human health, Vietnamese scientists said.  According to a group in charge of handling information related to the [...]
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March 21, 2011
The damaged number three (L) and four reactors of the TEPCO Fukushima No. 1 power plant. A fresh fire broke out at the damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, early on March 16. Vietnam’s energy officials say that recent explosions at Japan’s Fukushima plant will not affect the country’s development of nuclear power plants. [...]
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February 6, 2010
An exhibition about the first locally-manufactured aircrafts opened at the Museum for Air Defense and the Air Force on February 2 but are they the first made-in-Vietnam planes? VietNamNet finds out. The two farmers and their “helicopter”. In 1999 rice grower Le Van Danh and a rubber farmer Tran Quoc Hai, who ran a shop [...]
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February 3, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan is among top ten techies named as the most outstanding ICT persons of the decade. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong presents insignias to the top ten ICT persons of the decade. 1. Dr. Mai Liem Truc: Former chief of the General Department of [...]
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