On the afternoon of May 7, Ms. Pham Thi Ngot, 53, died at the clinic of Ba To district in the central province of Quang Nam. This is the 20th person who died of the unknown skin disease.

Vietnam cannot close its eyes to the genetically modified organism (GMO), described as a revolution in the biotechnology.

Vietnam only exploited 5 percent of its renewable energy potential and the Government sets the target to increase to figure to 11 per cent by 2050.

HA NOI — International and domestic experts have jointly assessed the impact of climate change on energy and transport as part of the first phase of a US$2.5-million project funded by the Asian Development Bank.

The final round of Viet Nam Robot Contest 2012 (Robocon) will take place on May 7-13 in HCM City.

The Xuan Huong Lake, a national beautiful landscape in Da Lat City - called the “dreamlike city of Vietnam” – has been found as seriously polluted. Though scientists have found out the reasons behind the pollution, they still cannot prescribe the lake

A farmer manufactured two aircraft; an engineer - wounded soldier, tried to create a flying machine; a young engineer spent 10 years to generate a mini aircraft. None of them has succeeded, but they, like many other Vietnamese people, still try to turn the dream of flying realistic.

The research team from Stanford University (USA) has developed an application for smart phones and a mini scanner can be attached to the phone promises early diagnosis of oral cancer.

The McMaster University researchers have recently developed a kind of paper can rapidly detect the presence of E.coli bacteria in water within 30 minutes.

The Can Gio preventive forest plays a very important role in the protection of the environment in HCM City, described as the “lung” cleaning the air and industrial waste converged from Dong Nai River upstream.