Da Nang students make solar-powered car
Three students from the Da Nang City University of Technology's Faculty of Transportation Mechanical Engineering — Huynh Kim Trang, Ta Ngoc Thien Binh and Pham Nguyen Son — have built a solar-powered car. The 350kg vehicle, Solar Car SC4, costs more than VND80 million (US$4,200) to make and has a maximum speed of 30kmph. It can also run on liquefied natural gas, or LNG.
Tuoi Tre ( Youth)
Foreign companies account for 45.5% of exports
Exports by foreign-invested companies were worth US$14.6 billion in the first half, up 39.5 per cent year-on-year and accounting for 45.5 per cent of the country's total exports, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Their main export products are footwear, computers and computer spare parts, and electric cables.
Nguoi Lao Dong ( The Labourer)
Hai Phong finds imported toxic waste
The Hai Phong environment police on Tuesday discovered three containers with toxic waste that had been imported through the city's Chua Ve Port. They contained toxic plastic scrap and waste plastic bags that fail to meet import norms.
Hai Phong has discovered hundreds of illegally imported containers containing toxic waste in the past two years.
Tin Tuc ( News)
Sugar prices stabilise following imports
Sugar prices have stabilised after the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and of Industry and Trade approved the import of 150,000 tonnes.
On Tuesday the wholesale price in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta was VND17,000 (US$0.8) a kilogramme, level that will encourage farmers to grow sugarcane, according to local sugar mills. There is a chronic supply shortfall in the country.
Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon)