Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park to get labs, university

Some US$400 million will be spent on projects related to science and technology in Hoa Lac High Tech Park in the northern province of Ha Tay, the Vietnam Institute for Sciences and Technology said.  

The institute has signed an agreement with the park to finance construction. Laboratories for astronautics, biology, energy regeneration, and electromechanics will be built on 30 hectares of land in the park at a cost of $300 million. The project is scheduled for completion by 2020.

In addition, the institute will use US$100 million to build a university for science and technology on a 65-hectare plot of land in the park.

Seminar held on President Ho Chi Minh with Longzhou

Ho Chi Minh Museum has co-ordinated with the Institute of Social Sciences and the People’s Committee of China’s Longzhou district to organise a Scientific Seminar on President Ho Chi Minh with Longzhou in Longzhou district from May 7-9.

Longzhou district, in Guangxi province, is a mountainous locality that shares the border with Vietnam’s Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces. President Ho Chi Minh and many Vietnamese revolutionaries had carried out revolutionary activities in the locality before the August Revolution.

Speeches at the seminar concentrated on President Ho Chi Minh’s activities in Guangxi and the Vietnam-China friendship, building a tourist route along President Ho Chi Minh’s trail in Guangxi within the co-operation programme Vietnam-China border corridor.

Israel helps train Vietnamese in web security

Israeli experts will pass on their web security know-how to Vietnamese officials in a training course to be held in Ho Chi Minh City from May 12-16.

The trainers will come from the Israeli Export and International Cooperation Institute, Health Ministry and five leading web security companies of Israel, according to the Quan Doi Nhan Dan daily.

During the course, trainees will be taught how to manage web security access, application, code, risk and breakdown recovery, through procedures, policies and advanced technology.

High-tech park underway in Ha Tay

The Vietnam Science and Technology Institute (VAST) said it will invest US$300 million in a hi-tech development project in the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park in the northern province of Ha Tay.

The institute plans to build laboratories for creating scientific equipment for space and biological projects, energy recycling and electronic mechanics.

Air, water pollution increase in HCM City

Ho Chi Minh City ’s irrigation canals such as Thay Cai and Kenh B are being polluted by waste water discharged from industrial zones, including Le Minh Xuan and Tan Phu Trung, said Le Hong Hanh, the deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

City authorities have decided to close four enterprises in the Tan Phu Trung zone because of serious pollution. They have also worked with IZ managing boards to improve the situation. The city plans to set up an Environmental Protection Steering Committee in an effort to reach solution.

Rare snakes and tortoises released to freedom

Local rangers have released over 40 snakes and two Bastard Cardamon tortoises into natural forests in the northern mountainous Tuyen Quang province, following their rescue from illegal captivity.

The reptiles were seized by public security officers from two illegal storages in Tri Phu commune of Tuyen Quang province on April 30.

The seizure included two copperheads categorised in Vietnam’s Red Book as Group B1 animals which are especially rare, valuable and strictly forbidden to capture.

(Source: VNA, SGGP, ND, CPV)