Training postgraduates themselves to create lecturers for their schools is the way many universities are following to upgrade their lecturing staff.

VietNamNet Bridge – Residents in a commune in Dong Nai Province demand the polluting company, AB Mauri Vietnam, be shut down if it continues causing pollution problems.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese bodybuilder Nguyen Van Lam caused an upset at the World Bodybuilding Championship in Malaysia by winning the gold in the men's 65kg last Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Play Theatre will be staging the French classic Andromaque, directed by Jean Mari Lejude, in Ha Noi on December 14 and 15, before touring France and a number of other European countries.

The open legal framework has helped small and medium enterprises (SMEs) increase rapidly in the last five years. However, only 2/3 of SMEs have been operating well, while the other 1/3 has been running at random.

Anti-nuclear protesters held a series of large rallies in Japan's southwestern city of Fukuoka on Sunday, with more than 15,000 people participating and calling for dismantlement of all nuclear power plants in Japan, Kyodo News reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the gold medal in the women's 20km walk at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games being held in Jakarta and Palembang yesterday, Nov 13.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved HEMACORD, the first licensed hematopoietic progenitor cells-cord cell therapy.

Bernard Weber, Founder-President of the New Open World, sent a letter of congratulations to Ha Long Bay for its winning the vote to become one of the new Seven Natural Wonders of the World.

State-owned enterprises are calling for changes in a draft decree that would limit the size of their investments in banks, insurance companies and securities companies.

Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission will discuss to reconsider the means of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday.

Hoang Lien Son is the most towering mountain range with its Fanxipang peak being 3,143m high above the sea level.

Vietnam has a record high coffee export turnover in 2010-2011. However, the good news has been shadowed by a lot of big worries about the coffee quality problems and the disappearance of many exporters.

VietNamNet Bridge – The javan rhino is extinct in Vietnam. This is sad news for Vietnam’s wildlife preservation sector. This ending is blamed on related management agencies and problematic management mechanisms.

Some 8,000 demonstrators formed a long human chain at the German Parliament building Reichstag, the Central Railway Station and other landmark buildings in downtown Berlin around Saturday noon, in a spin-off of the U.S.-originated . . .

The Viet Nam Exhibition and Fair Centre will stage three concurrent exhibitions from November 16-19 called Vietnam Comm, Vietnam Internet & IT, and Vietnam Electronics.

Singing Sli is to preserve and disseminate traditional songs of the Nung ethnic minority group in Lang Son, says a Sli artist, Ha Mai Ven.

Cyclist Dinh Thi Nhu Quynh won the 14th gold medal for Vietnam on November 13 at the ongoing 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

SOS for struggling firms; Central bank refutes rumors of discontinuing financial firms; Automakers compete in small-car segment; Inter-bank rates cool down; Many veterinary drug producers on verge of dissolution

President Truong Tan Sang has said Vietnam will continue making active contributions to the negotiation process of a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, helping strengthen cooperation and diversity of the TPP linkage.