Monday, March 31st, 2014
The Ho Chi Minh City National University has worked with the southwest provinces of Dong Thap, Soc Trang, Can Tho and Long An to implement "Mekong Delta geographic information systems" (MGIS). According to Professor, Academician Nguyen Van...
Thursday, March 20th, 2014
Clark Labs has received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create a baseline map of coastal habitats and the distribution of shrimp mariculture in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. The analysis is based on...
Monday, March 3rd, 2014
The 2013 Land Law has seven more chapters and 66 more articles than in the 2003 Land Law. The new Land Law clearly regulates the State's rights, obligations and its role in land management. It says, "The...
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
A consortium of Belgian aerospace companies including QinetiQ Space yesterday signed a pre-contract agreement with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Johan Vande Lanotte and the Belgian ambassador....
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Three reports published today provide policymakers with concrete proposals to reduce the diverse threats that climate change poses to different communities in urban areas of Vietnam. The researchers —whose studies were supported through the Asian Cities Climate...
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
As semi-subsistence farmers, Hmong and Yao food systems rely heavily on natural assets, in the form of favourable weather conditions and arable land, for their food production. Access to sufficient land is an emerging issue due to...
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Vietnam has launched a micro-satellite to the International Space Station (ISS), Xinhua reported on Sunday. Vietnam's micro-satellite Pico Dragon, together with three other such satellites of the US, was shipped to ISS by Japan's Kounotori-4 (HTV-4) cargo...
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
On 7th May 2013, e2v high performance image sensors were launched into space on-board Vietnam's first optical Earth observation satellite, the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNRED Sat-1). The satellite was carried into orbit...
Monday, May 20th, 2013
The fate of the forests around Khe Sanh exemplifies what is happening today in Vietnam and the greater Mekong region, which also includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Although some large blocks of forest remain intact, the...
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Astrium is prime contractor for the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment, Disaster Satellite, the first Vietnamese Earth observation satellite. The Astrium-built VNREDSat-1 was launched on May 7th from Kourou. The pictures show Hanoi’s Red River (Vietnam) and the...
