Vietnamese-French Fields Medalist receives Maurice Audin prize for math
The prize-giving ceremony was held after a two-year delay
Vietnam company claims major prizes from US communications awards
A Vietnamese company has become the first in the country to bring home three major prizes from a U.S. communications materials award
Russian flick wins highest prize at Hanoi int’l film festival
Several films from other countries won prizes at the 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), which wrapped up in the Vietnamese capital on Thursday night, and the most important award went to a Russian movie
Ethnic pageant finalist named 1st Elite Model Look Vietnam winner
A girl who competed in Miss Vietnam 2012 and landed in the Top 10 of Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2013 was crowned in the Saturday finale of the first local season of Elite Model Look, the world’s most prestigious modeling contest
Big Brother Vietnam champion wins $94,340
In the finale of Big Brother Vietnam on Jan 14, Hoang Son Viet became the winner and walked away with an apartment worth VND2 billion (US$94,340), the largest prize ever for a local reality show.
Nobel for trio who took chemistry to cyberspace
Martin Karplus, a US-Austrian citizen, Michael Levitt, a US-British citizen, and Arieh Warshel of the US and Israel were honoured "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies
Edwards, who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2010, started work on fertilisation in the 1950s, and the first so-called test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978 as a result of his research