Vietnam has set up an ambitious plan to have 20,000 PhDs by 2020. However, it will have to go a very thorny path to reach that end.

VietNamNet Bridge – Since the beginning of this year, the city's museums have brought hundreds of mobile exhibitions to schools, universities and industrial parks in city districts and southern provinces.

Kazakhstan's Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS said Friday that the country had 17,266 registered HIV carriers as of Oct. 1,compared with 15,908 as of Feb. 1, 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City police have arrested five people for allegedly stealing 40 tons of soybeans worth at least VND340 million (US$16,200) from Nha Rong – Khanh Hoi Port in June.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ninh Hoang Ngan, who is Miss Fashion of Miss Vietnam World 2010 pageant, took the Talent Award at the 6th Super Model Asian Beauty 2011, which ended on November 3 in Japan.

Contact center service has emerged as a promising business in Vietnam. However, experts say the market development still does not commensurate with the potentials.

Many people believe that small banks would be the first subjects for the bank restructuring, i.e. they would be weeded out from the current banking system. However, experts do not think this way.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia Andrus Ansip and his entourage started a three-day visit to Viet Nam yesterday, Nov 6.

VietNamNet Bridge - The annual meeting of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on November 4, officially decided to establish a share-holding company to manage the V-League and First Division, the two top leagues in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 3,000 drug users were admitted to rehabilitation centres in HCM City from the beginning of the year to the end of September, an increase of 13.9 per cent against the same period last year,

VietNamNet Bridge – Musicians from the Viet Nam National Symphony Orchestra will provide 30 free downtown street performances during the next two months.

Vietnam secured a 4-0 win over Laos in their third qualifying game of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U19 Championship in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thong Nhat Stadium on November 6.

A number of factors could hold back agricultural product exports in 2011’s remaining months despite earlier buoyant figures.

A cold spell is moving towards the north and is expected to affect northern provinces on November 8, say weather forecasters.

Nigeria's Commissioner of Police in northeast Yobe State Sulemon Usman has confirmed the death of 53 people comprising of 17 security agents and 36 civilians in the bomb attacks in Damaturu on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Among nine spooky species that were found in the world this year, Demon Bat, Vampire Flying Frog and Ruby-Eyed Pit Viper are discovered in Vietnam.

Sen village in Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province is only 45km from the central city of Vinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese runners will receive a VND100 million (US$5,000) cash-prize if they qualify for the 2012 London Olympics during competitions at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia from November 11-16.

More efforts are needed to bring this year’s inflation down to 18 percent and to a single digit rate in 2012, says Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Roger Federer savored his fifth title at his Swiss Indoors home tournament on Sunday, beating Japanese wild card Kei Nishikori 6-1, 6-3 in just over an hour.

The 2012 economic development scenario drafted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has met mixed responses.

Key volleyball players Ngo Van Kieu and Nguyen Huu Ha will be the major power in the men's volleyball team to compete in the Southeast Asian Games next week, said coach Nguyen Van Hung.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese U23 team did not score any goal in their second match against Myanmar on November 6, although it played with one more player than their opponents. 

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