The new project ‘Solutions to increase durability and performance of photovoltaic cells using dye-sensitized matter’ is offering a bright future to green concrete buildings with environmentally friendly energy in HCMC.

 Singapore has seized 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales found in a shipping container destined for Vietnam, the biggest seizure of its kind globally in five years, authorities said yesterday.

 The usage rights of greenhouse gas and air pollution interactions and synergies (GAINS) model has been transferred to the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment (DoNREs) of Hanoi, Bac Ninh, and Hung Yen. 

VN3.01/13 is the next project of VN3.01/09 – the first cooperation project of its kind between the EU and Vietnam on providing technical assistance for improving the legal framework for nuclear safety.

Several supermarkets in Hanoi have started using banana leaves to wrap vegetables as a way to protect the environment.

 Vietnam suffered 620 cyber attacks in the first three months of this year, down by about 50 percent compared with last year’s figure, according to the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Residents in Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai Province, have expressed concern about the shortage of underground water as drought looms over the island as summer starts.

 Air pollution in Hanoi is real but there is no basis to say it is at the second highest level in Southeast Asia, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan claimed at a Government press conference in Hanoi on April 2.

 Hanoi plans to set up more air quality monitoring stations in the face of worsening air pollution, according to local authorities.

 Viet Nam plans to raise VND1.7 trillion (US$71.5 million) of investment from the private and foreign sectors to develop the national innovation centre (NIC).

More than 100 young people cleaned Da Den Beach at Danang’s Son Tra Peninsula on March 31.

 Vietnam is home to nearly 14.5 million ha of forest nationwide, announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on March 29.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the IUCN signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on March 28 on the building of a protection and breeding programme for the saola, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet. 

 The amount of alluvium in the Mekong Delta has dropped about 65-75 percent and is forecast to decrease over 90 percent in the future, heard a workshop in An Giang province on March 27. 

 The HCM City Center for Statistics and Science & Technology Information has just held a conference to introduce the method to turn ash generated from thermal power plants into construction materials.

 51 years old Nguyen Quang Ngoc in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is a real wizard with more than 20 national and international patents though he has not attended any science course.

 Dr. Nguyen Thi Hiep, Dean of the Biomedical Engineering Department in the International University, has spent 10 years researching for a special kind of glue to stick wounds quickly in one minute. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will continue multiplication for a number of the Sao La, the world’s rarest wildlife were discovered at the Truong Son Mountain Range of Vietnam and Laos. 

 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Vietnam Association of National Park and Protected Area (VNPPA) held a workshop on the management of conservation sites in Vietnam in Hanoi on March 27.

 Two brothers in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi has been fined VND1.5 million (USD65.21) for posting a clip killing two rare birds on Youtube.