VietNam Culture: Cong

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Nominees announced for 2010 Vietnam Golden Ball

Pham Thanh Luong (C) receives the Vietnam Golden Ball title for the 2009 football season

Vietnam Golden Ball Award organizer, Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper, announced Tuesday the list of 35 nominees for the titles of best male footballer, best female, best U-21, and best foreigner in the year of 2010.

The selection of the list has been unanimously agreed upon by journalists from 17 sports media agencies in Vietnam. Selection is based on performances and conduct of morals during competitions last year.

Winners of each of the categories will be publicly announced in a ceremony to be held in late March in Ho Chi Minh City.

The list of nominees was sent to sports journalists, coaches and officials on Tuesday and it is planned the organizers will receive back the votes by March 10.

Now, strikers Le Huynh Duc and Le Cong Vinh top the honorable table with each winning the award three times in the past 15 years.

Male winners of Vietnam Golden Ball Awards from 1995-2009:

Le Huynh Duc (1995)

Vo Hoang Buu (1996)

Le Huynh Duc (1997)

Nguyen Hong Son (1998)

Tran Cong Minh (1999)

Nguyen Hong son (2000)

Vo Van Hanh (2001)

Le Huynh Duc (2002)

Pham Van Quyen (2003)

Le Cong Vinh (2004)

Phan Van Tai Em (2005)

Le Cong Vinh (2006)

Le Cong Vinh (2007)

Duong Hong Son (2008)

Pham Thanh Luong (2009)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Cartoon on legendary Hanoi founder to screen

A cartoon on a legendary Emperor, who founded Thang Long capital, now Hanoi, is scheduled to air on September 17.

The film, entitled “Dragon’s Son”, is the first long cartoon using 3D
technology in Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat, Executive Director of
the Cinematography Association Studio said at a press briefing in
Hanoi on September 13.

The 90-minute footage is
about the childhood of King Ly Thai To, or Ly Cong Uan at birth, who
founded the 216-year-long Ly Dynasty in 1009.

Painters have animated over 30 characters, designed 20 major scenes and conducted almost 850 acts.

Director Pham Minh Tri said the “Dragon’s Son” is “100 percent
Vietnamese”, from sounds to music and costumes. The cartoon is
characterised by northern countryside sceneries such as banian trees,
ferry stations, pagodas and buffalo boys playing and fishing.

Ly Cong Uan was born at Co Phap Pagoda, in the village of same name, Bac Ninh province, in 974.

At the age of 3, his mother took him to the pagoda for monks there to
bring him up. He was named Ly Cong Uan by the monks and became a monk.

Under the protection and support of Ly Van Hanh, also
known as Van Hanh monk, who was a respected monk in the holy Anterior Le
Dynasty court, Uan came to the capital and took several promotions to
the Left Guard-Commander of the Anterior Citadel, a high rank in the
army system. In 1009, Le Ngoa Trieu, the last king of the Anterior Le
Dynasty died under the wrath of the people because of the ferocity and
cruelty brought on them in his time. Dao Cam Moc, a senior official, and
Vạn Hạnh monk used their power to enthrone Ly Cong Uan without any
debate, beginning the Ly Dynasty.

The then capital Hoa Lu in
the northern province of Ninh Binh was a tiny area with craggy
geography bounded by mountain ranges, which had been suitable for a
turbulent era but was not conducive to peacetime development and growth.
Ly Thai To chose to move the capital to a broader area lying in the
flat alluvial delta named Dai La, now Hanoi . In 1010, he began the
move and while travelling from the former capital to the new land, he
saw a Yellow Dragon ascending, so he changed the new land's name from
Dai La to Thang Long.

Vietnam is
celebrating the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi on October
10, which is called the Grand Festival./.

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