

The Command of Naval Region No.2 and Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City yesterday co-held a seminar in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province about ‘Cooperation for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer for National Security and Defense’.
The Science-technology Development Fund for Businesses (SDF) has been launched lately, achieving impressive results. In order to make the best use of this fund and avoid waste, it is necessary to remove certain limitations and inadequacies related to procedures and processes.
Professor Duncan Haldane from Princeton University of the US – Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 – yesterday delivered a public presentation on ‘Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution’ at Quy Nhon University (sited in Quy Nhon City of Binh Dinh Province), attracting the participation of hundreds of young science lovers.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has just announced five excellent candidates for Ta Quang Buu Prize 2022. They are selected by the Council for Basic Scientific Research in Natural and Technical Sciences (under the National Fund for Science and Technology Development) from 48 eligible nominations.
The Science & Technology Ministry must play a key role in promoting science-technology development of all ministries, agencies, localities, and appropriate institutions, mechanisms, policies must be introduced to boost this development, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in his meeting with the Ministry of Science & Technology yesterday.
The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Union of Science and Technology Associations yesterday announced the grand opening of the Research, Innovation, Consultation Hub (RICH).
Suggestions were raised about a budget increase on research and about more incentive policies to boost scientific and technological research activities among high school teachers as well as students at a conference in HCMC based Ton Duc Thang University yesterday.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has just introduced a detailed plan on launching the ‘Student Research Awards 2018’.