Designer Dan Chen in Rhode Island (USA) recently completed the design Robot The Last Moment - roughly translated Robot "last minute" - for patients dying alone with no relatives nearby.

One hundred blood donors nationwide will be honoured at a ceremony to be held in Hanoi on June 10 for their priceless contributions to the community.

Green growth (GG) is vital to achieving sustainable development, said a World Bank (WB) report released in Hanoi on June 8.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Mtex Vietnam has been certified as the first hi-tech firm in Vietnam by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

Illegal sand mining in the Sai Gon River section between HCM City and Tay Ninh Province to the north-west has caused severe erosion of the river's banks, including farmland in Cu Chi District.

Vietnam is resolved to change its growth model towards a green economy, with a Green Growth Strategy to 2020 now under construction, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said at a national meeting on June 3 on the occasion of the World Environment Day (June 5).

Dr. Takeshi Kasai, chief representative of World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam, has called for more public awareness and Government support in resisting the tobacco industry's increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine laws that protect people from the harms of tobacco addiction.

The Health Ministry has devised a plan to collect all medical waste every day, with 70 percent of solid waste to be treated by 2015, according to a source from the Health Environment Management Department.

Vice professor. Dr. Nguyen Hay- University of Agriculture and Forestry of Ho Chi Minh city has just introduced the equipment to dry honey according to a concentrated and turned leg method. The method is estimated to have many advantages compared to dried vacuum and refrigerated dryer are popularly applied today.

Vietnam joins the 150 or so countries around the globe to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th with a series of events starting yesterday in Quang Ninh Province.