With just a quick stick worth $0.01, physicians could correctly and quickly diagnosis patients’ illnesses and diseases, including cancer. This is the DNA/RNA reagent Viet Kieu scientist Vu Manh Huynh is hoping to produce in Vietnam.

Large Vietnamese companies in the near future will require an even higher capability of storing large amounts of data, according to a spokesman for EMC, a US-based information technology infrastructure company.

An international workshop on advanced material sciences and Nano technology opened in the coastal city of Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province on September 16.

The Buon Me Thuot Coffee Exchange Centre (photo), the country’s first agricultural product trading exchange centre, is set to open for business on December 12 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to draft a decision on the establishment of a state council to evaluate the first nuclear power plant project in Ninh Thuan province.

According to Professor Le Dinh Luong, Secretary General of the Vietnam Genetics Association, the founder of this centre, these ADN cards were made at the request of people who want to determine their blood-relationships.

Denmark on Wednesday cut a deal with Vietnam's software association Vinasa, providing 4.8mil Danish krone, or nearly US$1mil, to help improve Vietnam's software industry, especially the manpower for this sector.

FCG Vietnam, a major software company from Ho Chi Minh City, officially joined the US s Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) network of global software development centres last week.

Advanced 3G technologies will be introduced at an international exhibition of telecommunications, information technology and electronics in Ho Chi Minh City from November 26-29.

Vietnam’s successful launch of its first telecommunication satellite hit the headlines of newspapers in Hong Kong, China immediately after it happened on April 19.