Sci-Tech

Bright outlook for Vietnam's IT industry
21/09/2011 12:00
Viet Nam's information and communications technology industry has seen rapid growth during the past several years, but this growth represents only a small part of the sector's huge potential....
Foreign investments serve as new propulsive force for online commerce
21/09/2011 12:00
VietNamNet Bridge - The growth of the community using Internet-based and mobile services has made the competition for providing content apps and online commerce service stiffer. More and more investment funds have announced...
Vietnam expands testing of A/H5N1 vaccine
21/09/2011 12:00
The Ministry of Health has agreed to expand the clinical test of a domestically-made A/H5N1 flu vaccine. The test will be conducted on 1,000 healthy volunteers. Previously, the vaccine was tested on 500 volunteers, and they...
Investors elude small networks
20/09/2011 12:00
Small mobile network providers such as EVN Telecom and S-Fone have recently found it hard to seek strategic investors. Insiders say, because the Vietnamese market is at a saturation point in attracting new subscribers with...
Vietnam wants highest safety for planned nuclear power plant
20/09/2011 12:00
Vietnam has asked Russian experts to help in increasing safety levels at the country’s first planned nuclear power plant in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan. Le Dinh Tien, deputy minister of Science and...
Big opportunities for small service providers
20/09/2011 12:00
Cooperating to develop services on social networks will bring social networks’ owners and content providers (CP), especially the small and medium enterprises which do not have big financial capability, the opportunities to...
Domain registrations rise after big fee reductions
19/09/2011 12:00
A significant increase in new ".vn" domain name registrations has been reported after a substantial reduction in registration fees was announced eight months ago. Figures from the Ministry of Information and Communications'...
Vietnam branded mobile phones booming
19/09/2011 12:00
The debut of a series of mobile phones with Vietnamese brand names from late 2010 has led to fierce competition in the market. After An Binh telecom company released Q-Mobile and FPT launched FPT-Mobile in 2008 and 2009, the...
Rare lingzhi mushroom discovered in Lam Dong
19/09/2011 12:00
Some researchers of the Department of Science-Technology of Lam Dong province on September 15, discovered three red lingzhi mushrooms on an ancient pine tree at the gate of the Da Lat Palace hotel. This is the first...
Fake hi-tech products all the rage in Vietnam
17/09/2011 12:00
In general, no one likes using counterfeit products. However, Vietnamese young people nowadays tend to use fake mobile phones. This has made the fake mobile phone product most bustling than ever....