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The fifth annual Conference of Vietnamese Young Scientists (ACVYS 2018) took place in the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Sejong University in Seoul on May 20.

The Representative Office of the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology in New South Wales, Australia on May 19 launched a club of Overseas Vietnamese intellectuals in New South Wales.

President Tran Dai Quang met in Hanoi on May 11 with Vietnamese and foreign scientists attending the seminar themed “Science for development” that took place in Quy Nhon city on May 9-10.

A seminar discussing the application of nanotechnology in treating aquaculture waste took place in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on May 7.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 26 had a meeting with scientists and intellectuals in Singapore to learn about their experience in applying advanced technologies.

Singaporean-based Asian Scientist Magazine has named two Vietnamese – Professor Phan Thanh Son Nam and Associate Professor Nguyen Sum – in its recently published list of 100 leading scientists in Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his delights over the increasing role the Vietnamese Business Association in Australia (VBAA) in the host nation as well as its significant contributions to promoting bilateral economic ties

As many as 74 foreign and domestic scientists are gathering in Quy Nhon city in Binh Dinh to talk about planets beyond the solar system in a series of conferences that opened on February 26.

The permanent Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland held an early spring gathering on February 25.

Vietnam has had a remarkably high number of post-graduates in the recent years. However, scientific research projects, which are considered the soul of universities in their quest to produce new knowledge for the world, have remained modest in both quality and quantity.

President Tran Dai Quang visited and extended Tet greetings to several senior intellectuals at their residence in Hanoi on February 12, wishing them a happy new year and good health.

Five Vietnamese female scientists were granted the 2017 L'Oreal-UNESCO awards at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 12.

An agricultural waste treatment that uses bioproducts has been developed by scientists from the Centre of New Material and the Hanoi Gardening Association.

The World Wide Fund for Nature released a report on December 21, saying that 115 new species were discovered by scientists in the Greater Mekong region in 2016.

More than 100 scientists, policy makers, researchers, lecturers and press experts from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) were brought together at a workshop in Hanoi on November 1 to share experience in communicating public policy to promote social consensus in specific arenas such as healthcare and nuclear energy.

Domestic and international young researchers gathered at a conference in the central city of Da Nang on October 30 to discuss policies to help Vietnamese enterprises enhance their competitiveness.

Scientists and local authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa have conducted surveys and held a conference to discuss the damage to Ho Citadel, online news Dan Tri reported.

Some 150 scientists gathered in Hanoi to discuss how to develop environmentally friendly, economically viable and energy efficient process to treat and preserve the world’s limited water resources.

Advances and discoveries in the field of oncology are being presented at the first Vietnam multidisciplinary oncology conference being held in Hanoi on September 5 and 6.

Scientists have created a map that warns land degradation risks in the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien and Lai Chau.