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HCM City (VNA) - HCM City authorities are helping companies access new technologies by promoting linkages between researchers and businesses, but more collaboration is needed, speakers said on May 28 at a meeting in the city.  Trieu Thanh Son, deputy head of the Research Management and Cooperation Department under the HCM City Institute for Development Studies, said the city has been offering assistance to companies in registration of intellectual property rights and fostering linkages between researchers and businesses.  “HCM City is now promoting the science and technology market to enable companies to adopt new technologies and increase their labour productivity.”  More collaboration between academia and businesses, however, is needed so that research results can be converted into practical technology, he added. Nguyen Anh Ngoc, deputy director of HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre, noted … [Read more...] about HCM City fosters linkages between academia, companies

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Quitting smoking would help create a healthy environment for each individual, family and society, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, at a meeting held yesterday in Hà Nội to respond to World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and National No Tobacco Week (May 25-31). “Quit smoking today,” Sơn said. He added that it was a message the ministry wanted to send to every smoker in the country. This year, the World Health Organisation’s World No Tobacco Day campaign focuses on protecting children and young people from exploitation by the tobacco industry. Speaking at the meeting, Sơn urged all ministries, sectors and localities nationwide to strengthen their implementation of the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms. Since the tobacco law came into effect in May 2013, the smoking rate among men decreased by about 2.1 per cent and women by 0.3 per cent. Through the event, the ministry’s Tobacco Harms … [Read more...] about Health ministry wants everyone to stop smoking

Within the framework of the project, BIMEDTECH manufactured three pilot lots of 1,000 chipsets each under close cooperation and quality testing of leading units in the diagnosis and treatment of blood, lung and heart disease, such as the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and the National Lung Hospital. BIMEDTECH will pilot the production of 30,000 chipsets for diagnosis and screening of congenital hemolytic, 10,000 chipsets for identification of 17 atypical tuberculosis strains and 10,000 Clopidogrel-resistant diagnostic chipsets. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese firm pioneers manufacture of diagnostic biochips

The two sides agreed to continue discussing their coordination in managing land border and organizing activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Vietnam-China Land Border Treaty, the 10th year implementing three legal documents on land border. They also agreed to conduct joint border inspections in accordance with the Agreement on Vietnam - China land border management regulations and the Protocol on land border demarcation and marker plantation at a suitable time. … [Read more...] about General secretaries of Committee for Vietnam–China Bilateral Cooperation hold online meeting