Overseas Professor Trần Thanh Vân, talks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) about the country’s need to pay a high salary to people working in science and technology. What should we do to encourage young Vietnamese to get more involved in science research?

BÌNH ĐỊNH – About 80 professors, scientists and researchers from 17 countries gathered at a conference themed “Star formation in different environments” that opened at the International Centre of Interdisciplinary Science Education in Quy Nhơn City, the central province of Bình Định, yesterday.

BÌNH ĐỊNH — Experts discussed nanoelectronics, nano equipment, superconductivity, magneto-resistive materials and strongly correlated systems at a scientific conference that opened on Monday in Quy Nhơn City, the central province of Bình Định.  

HÀ NỘI – The central Bình Định Province received its first-ever Science Avenue following a naming ceremony co-organised by provincial People’s Committee and the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) on Thursday.

QUY NHƠN – Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife arrived in Bình Định on Sunday afternoon. Accepting an invitation from Prof. Trần Thanh Vân, president of Rencontres du Vietnam, Prof. Hooft will attend Việt Nam’s scientific event on cosmography in the coastal city of Quy Nhơn.

International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS) was officially opened by the association of Rencontres du Vietnam (Meeting Vietnam) at the International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh province on July 11.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented prestigious Friendship Order to Vietnamese French Professors Le Kim Ngoc and Tran Thanh Van at a ceremony held in Hanoi on July 8 for their outstanding contribution the country’s scientific development and childcare in Vietnam. The two professors, Tran Thanh Van and his wife Le Kim Ngoc established an Association in France to help Vietnamese children in 1970. They have returned home to organize many exchanges between Vietnamese and foreign scientists since 1993.

HA NOI (VNS) — The prime minister has approved an increase in State funding for a space science complex in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh, to cost over VND171.1 billion (US$8.1 million). Of the total amount, VND160 billion ($7.6 million) will now be sourced from the State budget, which is VND60 billion ($2.85 million) higher than the original estimate.

Five Nobel laureates have visited Viet Nam this month to attend a number of scientific exchange events held by the Association Rencontres du Vietnam in central Binh Dinh Province. They have also witnessed the inauguration of the country's new International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE).

BINH DINH (VNS)— Government leaders, Nobel Prize winners, and leading international scientists yesterday attended the opening of a centre for interdisciplinary science and education in central Binh Dinh Province. The centre, which was initiated - and backed financially - by Prof. Tran Thanh Van, chairman of the Association Rencontres (meeting) du Vietnam, is expected to serve as the nation's biggest centre for top level scientific activities.

BINH DINH (VNS)— Four American Nobel laureates arrived in central Binh Dinh Province yesterday to attend the 9th "Meeting Viet Nam" event – a scientific symposium which starts today. The illustrious foursome are Prof. George Smoot, Prof. David J. Gross, Prof. Jack Steinberger, and Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow. They will join fellow Nobel winner Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, who arrived last Thursday, to deliver keynote speeches at the conference.

A German Nobel laureate has arrived in Vietnam to chair a nanophysics conference in a central city.