VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Anh Tuan, 24, has been honoured with the Inoue Yasushi Award for his PhD thesis about women’s poetry in Manyoshu, the oldest collection of Japanese poetry compiled during the Nara period.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts have been talking a lot lately about the so-called “domestic brain drain”, the movement of scientists leaving state-owned institutes for private companies.