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  Eight-year-old Nguyen Song Anh’s "Big Bang" Clock has been awarded first prize at the British Council’s Global Young Learners’ Art Competition 2011 Eight year-old Nguyen Song Anh of Ho Chi Minh City has won first prize at the Global Young Learners’...

  Police have arrested a person alleged to have hacked the website of Vietnam’s leading internet security company last week, Tuoi Tre quoted the company’s representative as saying Tuesday. Nguyen Minh Duc, director of the Hanoi-based Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Company’s Internet Security...

    Sleep ranks right up there with weight in the pantheon of health issues to obsess over: Millions of people worry that they aren’t catching enough ZZZs, or that the ones they are catching aren’t high-quality. Those numbers are far too large for gadget-makers to ignore. As a...

  The University of the Arts London (UAL), in conjunction with the British Council, will hold creative art workshops for local college students on February 13 in Hanoi and two days later in Ho Chi Minh City.   According to the organizer, the workshop, entitled, “A human sanctuary in the heart of the...

Vietbocap thienduongensis Lourenco & Pham, a new species of scorpion recently discovered in Vietnam's central province of Quang Binh. Vietnamese and French scientists have discovered a new species of scorpion in a national park in the central province of Quang Binh, VnExpress reported Monday. Dr. Pham Dinh Sac from...

The area planned for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan Nearly 100 workers and engineers Thursday started seismic surveys at the location of Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local news website reported the same day. VnExpress quoted...

  For the last couple of years, Google has reserved the “Nexus” label for smartphones that provide the purest experience of its Android operating system. Meanwhile, Samsung has used the “Galaxy” brand on its top-of- the-line mobile devices. So what do you...

The “big, weird” bird caught by an ethnic resident in Son La Province last month has been identified by a zoologist as the Cinereous Vulture. A “big, weird” bird caught by an ethnic minority resident in the northwestern province of Son La last month has been identified by a zoologist as the Cinereous...

The location in Ninh Thuan Province's Ninh Phuoc District chosen for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in 2014. Vietnam has sent 70 people to Russia to receive training in nuclear technology, the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology said at a Hanoi conference Tuesday. The overseas training is estimated...

  New KOTO alumni initiative called Pots ‘n Pans will open on January 28 at 57 Bui Thi Xuan Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi. KOTO, the NGO that does yeoman service to Vietnamese society by taking in street children and disadvantaged youth between the ages of 16 and 22 and...