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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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 2, 2012
A Vietnamese speech translation system and an iPhone navigation app based on voice recognition are among the applications recently introduced by a Ho Chi Minh City-based university.  The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AILab) at the University of Science, said based on its research on spoken language that earned the third prize in the 2009 Viet Talents contest, [...]
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December 30, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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December 30, 2011
Students of French department at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Poor career prospects have left fewer and fewer students choosing French as their major in Ho Chi Minh City, according to a report by the Tuoi Tre newspaper. The report cited the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), one of the country’s hubs [...]
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December 30, 2011
Vu Viet Duc and Vu Thanh Tu, both students at the University of Engineering and Technology under the Hanoi-based Vietnam National University, won first runner-up prize at a Japanese programming contest on Decmber 23. Vietnam has won the first runner-up prize in an international programming contest initiated by Japan, according to a report in Tuoi [...]
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December 29, 2011
Vu Viet Duc and Vu Thanh Tu, both students at the University of Engineering and Technology under the Hanoi-based Vietnam National University, won first runner-up prize at a Japanese programming contest on Decmber 23. Vietnam has won the first runner-up prize in an international programming contest initiated by Japan, according to a report in Tuoi [...]
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December 28, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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December 27, 2011
Students of French department at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Poor career prospects have left fewer and fewer students choosing French as their major in Ho Chi Minh City, according to a report by the Tuoi Tre newspaper. The report cited the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), one of the country’s hubs [...]
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December 23, 2011
Pham Van Quan, a lecturer at Hanoi Architectural University’s Environmental Engineering Department, won the third “Green Talents” contest, organized by Germany. A Vietnamese has been named among 20 international young scientists who won a German-initiated international environmental competition, VnExpress reported Wednesday. The newswire quoted the German Embassy in Hanoi as saying that Pham Van Quan, a [...]
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