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.

One crucial aspect of traffic safety is the driver's health. Scientists at the Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany in collaboration with the BMW researchers have fabricated sensor system integrated into the steering wheel to observe the health status of the driver while driving.

People who are depressed tend to use the Internet at random, with no clear purpose. They often switch between applications or between the pages they are viewing that for nothing. Based on these findings, hidden software installed on your computer will detect depression.

There will be time, the doctor sews the patient's heart is not in material created by any new technology, but by the skin of the patient. For the first time, the Israeli scientists have converted skin cells into heart cells healthy.

Fourteen hydropower plant projects would be developed in Dong Giang, a very small district of Quang Nam province, which have put local residents in big distress.