Tips to save the Earth

The HCM City People's Committee has approved a programme to support an innovative start-up eco-system over the next five years.

Cooperation in waste management and the building of emission-free circular economy was highlighted at the third meeting of the Joint Committee of Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.

Following the ongoing showdown between Australian lawmakers and Google and Facebook, Vietnam aims to devise similar plans and force global tech titans to share some of the profits they make for using and sharing local press articles.

Like many other countries in the region, Vietnam is seen as an attractive market for online education startups.

Despite ironclad moves taken by appropriate agencies, the trafficking and illegal transport of tigers to make tiger bone glue remains a burning issue in Vietnam.

With great potential amid the ever-growing importance of science and technology, Vietnam has promoted investment in this field by offering tax incentives and resources.

Digital transformation is keeping life going but in a ‘new normal’ state.

After two weeks of research, Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Sinh Hien has successfully developed a new technique for aortic valve repair and replacement.

iPhone 12 users now can experience the features that 5G can offer.

A free website with a homework search engine was launched in 2013 by a boy in the 6th grade.

Associate Professor Truong Thanh Huong, senior lecturer at the Hanoi Medical University and expert at the Vietnam National Heart Institute under Bach Mai Hospital, has been given Vietnam’s 2020 Kovalevskaya Award 

The Ministry of Transport has implemented a series of measures to control the emission of pollutants from motor vehicles, Head of the ministry’s Department of Environment, Tran Anh Duong, has said.

No measure of money can be exchanged for the mark of time. These trees, with a lifetime of over 1,000 years, are associated with national culture and history.

Hanoi has set up a list of 90 industrial establishments that have to be moved out of the inner city.

The use of plastic bags and products in traditional markets and shops continues to plague Hanoi.

Winners of the Kovalevskaya Award 2020, a prize dedicated to outstanding female scientists, were announced at a ceremony held jointly by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee.

In a bid to ensure sustainable development and economic growth, the government has enacted a fresh action programme on continuing response to climate change, with new mechanisms in favour of private investment.

Animal abusers will be fined from VND1mil (USD43) to tens millions of VND as new decree takes effect.

Authorities of Son Tra District, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation and GreenViet, have started researching the protection of the rhesus macaque monkey to drive troupes of monkeys back to the Son Tra Nature Reserve, Da Nang.

Foreign tech giants like Facebook, Google, and YouTube will have to pay taxes in Vietnam under a draft circular, after years of invoicing their revenues out of the country.