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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Famous Australian musicians to perform in Hanoi

Two leading Australian performers will impress Hanoi audiences at a
free concert at Radio the Voice of Vietnam Theatre on February 28.

The concert, titled “Brothers in Concert: Sounds of Colours”, will be
jointly organised by the Australian Embassy in Hanoi and Radio the Voice
of Vietnam, according to a press release from the Australian Embassy.

It will feature performances by guitarist Leonard
Grigoryan and Joseph Tawadros who specialises in the oud, a kind of
lute, as well as other well-known Vietnamese artists.

The Grigoryan and Tawadros family names are synonymous with modern
Australian classical music. Regarded as one of Australia ’s finest
classical guitarists, Grigoryan is also well-known for playing different
kinds of music such as latin, jazz, folk and contemporary music.

Tawadros is recognised as one of the world’s leading performers and
composers for the oud (an eleven stringed lute of Middle-Eastern
origin). With his brilliant technique and lively performing style, he
has appeared in many concert halls worldwide and has dazzled audience
with his passionate music.

The Australian Ambassador
to Vietnam , Allaster Cox, said that the concert will help to bring
Australian and Vietnamese closer together by this collaboration of
artists from both countries.

Grigoryan and Tawadros
will also share their experiences with students at the Vietnam National
Academy of Music and the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music./.

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)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

V-League the No.1 in Southeast Asia: Indonesia coach

The top-tier football league in Vietnam, V-League, is the number one in Southeast Asia in terms of attraction and quality of competition, said Indonesia’s head coach Alfred Riedl.

The Austrian-born man, who has 14 years of working as coaches in Vietnam, Laos, and Indonesia, said footballers in Vietnam are paid higher salary and bonus than other nations in the region.

“It has drawn qualified players from Thailand, Singapore or Indonesia to enlist for V-League in Vietnam,” he said.

“Payment for domestic players in Vietnam is also higher than in Indonesia. That helps motivate players to strive to demonstrate themselves on the pitch to deserve the payment.”

The 62-year-old coach agreed that violence, match fixing and quality of referees have degraded football development but these problems are universal, not unique to Vietnam.

“In Indonesia, violence is even more serious than in Vietnam and referees seem unable to control it,” Riedl said.

Coach Riedl had three spells of training the Vietnamese national team, from 1998 – 2001, 2003-04, and 2005-07. He later came to Laos in 2009 and worked with Indonesia from 2010.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Vietnam poetry festival highlights Uncle Ho

The late President Ho Chi Minh was in the spotlight at Vietnam Poetry
Day, held at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on February 17,
an annual event to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

The event, featuring poems about Vietnam ’s first president,
celebrated the 100 th anniversary of Uncle Ho leaving the nation in his
quest for national salvation (1911) and the 70 th anniversary of his
return to his native land after dozens of years living abroad.

The event opened with a ritual bringing water from Pac Bo spring in
the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, which sheltered the
national leader during his first days of return, and an earth ritual to
bring a handful of soil from his native village in the central province
of Nghe An to the cultural temple as sacred objects of the event.

The Vietnam Writers’ Association President, Nguyen Huu Thinh, himself
a poet, presented a poetry collection about the late President
including 30 poems by foreign authors such as Madlain Riffaud.

A similar event with the same topic was also held in Ho Chi Minh City
on the same day, drawing over 350 members of the municipal writers’
club and hundreds of poetry lovers./.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Spanish magazine spotlights Vietnam cave

Spanish writer Mark Jenkin has extolled the wonderful beauty of Hang
Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) in the world natural heritage site Phong
Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam’s central Quang Binh province.

In
a reportage entitled “Vietnam Cave” published in the National
Geographic magazine in January 2011, M. Jenkin wrote “There is a jungle
inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern.”

The passage to Hang Son Doong
is perhaps 300 feet wide, the ceiling nearly 800 feet tall: room enough
for an entire New York City block of 40-storey buildings, he wrote,
adding that “And the end is out of sight.”

M. Jenkin cited his
teammate Jonathan Sims, who was a member of the first expedition to
enter the cave, as saying that his team could explore two and a half
miles of Hang Son Doong before a 200-foot wall of muddy calcite stopped
them. They named it the Great Wall of Vietnam.

Measuring 200m
high and 150m wide, the cave, named Son Doong by Khanh who leads a
British caving team to explore the cave, is believed to be almost twice
the size of the current record holder, Deer Cave in Sarawak Malaysia.

Located in Phong Nha-Ke Bang grotto system, the cave is a limestone region of 2,000 sq.km./.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Vietnam in easy group at Olympics football qualifiers

The Vietnamese national senior women’s football team have been drawn in an easily-breathing group at the 2012 Olympics Games pre-qualifiers when they join group A together with Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Vietnam will encounter Hong Kong on March 18 before taking on Myanmar March 20, Thailand March 25 and Taiwan March 27. Two top teams will advance to later round.

On the FIFA ranking table, Vietnam women’s football is ranked 34th, right after Thailand at 33rd. Taiwan stand at 36th and Hong Kong 67th.

The qualification system for the London Olympics varies by continent and world governing body FIFA has yet to publish full qualifying documentation, but the broad outline is in place.

In Asia, only one best team will survive the two rounds of the pre-qualifiers and seal a ticket to join with five best giants – Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, and North China – in the qualifiers.

Asia, and Africa, each have two berths at the Games to fill, North and Central America will send two teams from a qualifying event planned for Canada in 2012, and Oceania supplies a final team alongside hosts Britain.

Vietnam’s coach Chow Yun Fat will convene his training camp on Sunday.

Vietnam-Thailand exhibition of modern art opens

An exhibition showcasing almost 80 modern works of art made from
different materials commonly found in Vietnam and Thailand has
opened at Thailand ’s National Gallery in the capital Bangkok .

The event is organised under the 2010 Memorandum of
understanding on cooperation in organising exhibitions for artists from
11 universities in Vietnam and Thailand .

The
Vietnamese universities include the Vietnam Fine Arts
University , the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University and Hue
’s Arts University . Thailand is represented by Thammasat
University , Silpakorn University , Chiang Mai University ,
Ragiamagala Technology University and Khon Kaen University .

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Associate
Professor and Dean of the painting, sculpture and graphic arts
department at Silpakorn University , Parinya Tantisuk said that the
exhibition will strengthen relations and mutual understanding between
the two nations as well as artists from the universities taking part.

According to Truong Cong Nguyen, Dean of the painting
theory and history department at the Vietnam Fine Arts University, many
of the Vietnamese artists had won national awards, ASEAN awards and
several international awards./.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Vietnam War through foreign journalists’ eyes

About 50 photos on the war in Vietnam taken by the late
photo-journalist Henri Huet and his colleagues are on display at an
exhibition that is opening in France from Feb.9 till April.10.

The event is being held to mark the 40 th ‑ death anniversary of the
well-known photographer, who lost his life when the military helicopter
he was riding in was shot down over Laos .

The
collection captures different aspects in the war from the pain, fatigue,
frustration and grittiness to a gamut of emotions.

Highlight of the display is a photo named Thomas Cole, which was used as
a cover of LIFE magazine, depicting a young medic of the First Cavalry
division, tending other soldiers despite his own injuries.

Sharon, a visitor, said she felt that she was witnessing what happened
dozens of years ago when viewing the photos and was impressed with
images of American soldiers’ daily life as well as what Vietnamese
people had to suffer from.

Henri Huet, who was a
half-French and half-Vietnamese, worked for the United Press
International (UPI) and then transferred to the Associated Press (AP)
during his 20-year career./.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

I want to play for Vietnam: Russian volleyballer

Kim Nhung (left)

Photo: Tuoi Tre

Playing a key post in the high-profile volleyball team Vietsovpetro of Vietnam, Russian-born player Merliakovax Ira now sets her sight on being included in the Vietnamese national team after she was naturalized in August, 2010.

The 27-year-old player told Tuoi Tre she has been working hard after holding Vietnamese citizenship so that she will be enlisted in the Vietnamese team for the 2011 Southeast Asian Games to be held in November in Indonesia.

Le Kim Nhung, her Vietnamese name, who is 1.85m tall and weighs 72kg, had a talk with Tuoi Tre.

What are your feelings of the Lunar New Year festival in Vietnam after spending 6 years working here?

In previous years, I usually joined my teammates to visit club’s coaches and spread them our wishes, and in return, we were given lucky money.

But during this 2011 Tet, I had to return to my homeland in Russia for some work.

Can you tell us something about your Vietnamese name Le Kim Nhung?

I think it’s better to have a pure Vietnamese name than combining both foreign and local names.

I consulted my friends and teammates in Vietnam and they all like it.

Can you give us a brief info of your family?

My father is a retired volleyball coach and my mom is a kindergarten’s music teacher. She also played volleyball as an amateur.

Before moving to Vietnam, I played for Dynamo Kiev in Russia.

You won the Best Attacker of the VTV Binh Dien Cup last month

I won that kind of title many times at many other tournaments during my six years in Vietnam. However, the latest one is the most meaningful to me as it marked the first title I won after being granted Vietnamese nationality.

What do you think about volleyball in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia?

To be frank, the development of Vietnamese volleyball is still amateur. What Vietnam need most now is to organize more events for local teams to compete and exchange.

In the region, Thailand is taking the lead and many Thai players are holding key positions at clubs here.

However, I wish the Vietnamese national volleyball team will beat Thailand at this year’s SEA Games. I also hope my Vietsovpetro club will gain best results at this year’s season.

Le Kim Nhung is qualified to be included in the national team to compete at the coming SEA Games, said Vietnam Volleyball Federation general secretary Tran Duc Phan.

In addition, she has never played for a Russian national team at any international tournament.

“We will soon discuss all aspects of the matter to admit her in our national squad,” said Phan.

“Vietnam will become stronger with her service.”

kimnhung 2

Russian-born volleyball player Merliakovax Ira (L), who was given Vietnamese citizenship in August, 2010. She is now playing for Vietnam's top-flight club Vietsovpetro

Friday, January 28, 2011

Lack of strikers blights Vietnam’s AFF campaign

Vietnam's football coach Henrique Calisto

Injuries to key strikers and an interminable pre-tournament training camp were the reasons for Vietnam’s early exit from last month’s Southeast Asian Football Championship, officials and coaches who reviewed the fiasco at a meeting Thursday agreed.

The Vietnam Football Federation’s National Board of Coaches said the squad had virtually no forwards following injuries to Cong Vinh and Viet Thang.

Things got worse after four other key players, defenders Quang Thanh and Viet Cuong and midfielders Tai Em and Trong Hoang, had to sit out the second leg of the semifinal against Malaysia in Hanoi due to injuries and bookings.

In the event, Vietnam were held to a goalless draw and crashed out. They had lost the first leg 2-0.

Malaysia went on to beat Indonesia in the final to win the title.

Vietnam’s Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto and officials also admitted that the two-month training camp before the tournament in December drained the players.

The VFF and Calisto decided that in future camps will be no longer than three weeks.

The National Board of Coaches said errors by goalkeeper Tan Truong and Calisto himself were partially to blame for the loss.

Calisto will, however, continue to be in charge at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia and World Cup qualifiers this year. His contract with Vietnam only expires in 2013.

He gets a monthly salary of US$22,000 and other perks, including accommodation, flight tickets to Portugal for his annual vacation, health insurance, and possible bonuses for good performances.

Calisto took over the squad in March 2008.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

An elegant symbol of Vietnamese culture

The image of the Ao dai (Vietnam’s traditional long dress) is often
associated with images of the country and is a beautiful symbol of
Vietnamese culture.

Bich Hue Boivineau, wife of the
French Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, shared her feelings on
Vietnam’s traditional long dress, on the eve of the first ever
“non-border Ao dai festival” scheduled to be held in Ho Chi Minh City on
January 21.

She said that she and her husband and
two children agreed to take part in the festival because it is a
charitable cultural event that aims to raise funds for 70 poor
households in Phong Dien district in the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue. The funds will also be used to buy a boat for pupils in Quang
Trach district in the central province of Quang Binh to go to school.

“One interesting thing when we wear the Ao dai is
that it highlights the strong points and hides the weak points of our
body,” she said, adding that women in Ao dai look graceful, shapely and
elegant.

She said she owned a big collection of Vietnam’s traditional long dresses and wears them on both festive and normal days.

When presenting the Ao dai to international friends, we will take a
variety of dresses to portray the non-borders characteristic of the
Vietnamese traditional dress, Bich Hue Boivineau noted.

The festival, organised by the Vietnam Long Dress Association, will
draw the participation of representatives from the consulate generals of
ten countries, including the US, France, Russia, Germany, Cuba, Japan,
the Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia and Laos as well as five foreign
organisations and businesses operating in Vietnam./.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Vietnam’s Hung wins HD Bank chess trophy

Vietnam's Nguyen Mai Hung claimed the top spot at the International
Chess Tournament – HD Bank Cup which ended in HCM City on Jan. 9.

The 17-year-old grandmaster grabbed 4.5 points over
the nine rounds. By doing so, she equalled the scores of three other
rivals but ended up taking the title because of her better sub-index.

Hung, from Bac Giang province, had previously won a
gold medal at the National Sports Games which helped her to become
Vietnam 's No 1 master.

She needs just one standard
to become Vietnam's fifth – and youngest ever– International Female
Grandmaster and is expected to earn this at a training course in
Hungary this summer.

It was a great tournament for
Vietnam's women with Hung's teammates Pham Le Thao Nguyen and
Nguyen Thanh An coming second and third at the HD Bank Cup.

On the men's side, the No 1 seed Le Quang Liem of Vietnam had a
disappointing event, earning fourth place overall with 6.5 points, half a
point less than event champion Yu Yangyi of China .

Chinese Wen Yang and Filipino Gomez John Paul were the two runners-up
on the men's side of the draw. Liem said he wasn't too worried about his
performance here.

"In general, I had a fairly good
tourney although I wasted several chances to improve my position. But
this is normal in chess. I do not have to worry about my performance
here because results at this tournament don't influence my Elo rating,"
said Liem who ranks 79th in the world.

"In 2011 my
target is to reach the rating of 2,700, which is the level for a super
International Grandmaster (IGM)," added Liem whose present Elo rating is
2,664.

Other male Vietnamese players failed to make
top three. IGM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, the former world U10 champion
was at fifth. While Nguyen Anh Dung and Dao Thien Hai suffered losses in
early round./.

US-based footballer eyes Vietnam national team

Vietnamese-American footballer Lee Nguyen is applying for Vietnamese citizenship to be able to appear in the national team of Vietnam

Vietnamese-American footballer Lee Nguyen, who played for the US national squad in 2007 as substitutes, is applying for Vietnamese citizenship to be eligible to play in the Vietnamese national team.

The 24-year-old midfielder, who is working for Binh Duong FC, told Tuoi Tre that filing for Vietnam naturalization is an initial move aimed at being called into the Vietnamese national football team in the future.

“It is his legitimate aspirations and so, we will offer him legal support to attain the status,” said Binh Duong club’s general director Doan Van Ut.

Nguyen almost rose to stardom after returning to play for Vietnam’s top-flight V-League club Hoang Anh Gia Lai in 2009 and scored 12 goals from his 24 appearances.

He had appeared in the US side as substitutes to play against Paraguay and Colombia at the 2007 Copa America and staged a friendly match with China, but scored none.

According to FIFA regulation, a player who joins the national team of a country from the starting line-up and plays no more than three games is still permitted to play for other national team.

Thus, the plan of Lee Nguyen to play for Vietnam is still within his reach if he is granted citizenship and selected by head coach of Vietnam, according to Vietnam’s football governing body – VFF general secretary Tran Quoc Tuan.

Most Outstanding Athletes 2010 selected

Japan's Momoko Takahashi (R), Vietnam's Vu Thi Huong (C) and Uzbekistan's Guzel Khubbieva run their women's 100m final at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, Guangdong province last month - Photo: Reuters

HCMC - Track-and-field athlete Vu Thi Huong, the “Queen of Speed” in Southeast Asia, has been selected the Best Athlete of 2010 followed by her teammate Truong Thanh Hang and Asian Games gold medalist Le Bich Phuong.

Vietnamese track-and-field athletes showed some excellent performances at the 16th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Guangzhou, China last month, taking home three silvers and two bronzes. Huong, along with fellow runners Truong Thanh Hang and Vu Van Huyen, were all nominated for Vietnam’s top 10 outstanding athletes.

Vu Thi Huong from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, who won Best Athlete of 2009, secured the second consecutive title by making history for Vietnam athletics at ASIAD by winning Vietnam’s first ever medal at the games - a bronze medal in the women’s 100m event. She also won a silver in the 200m race.

Huong beat Hang to the title as she picked up 1,213 points, while Hang, who grasped two silver medals in the ASIAD in the women’s 800m and 1500m events, came second with 1,208 points.

Though athlete Le Bich Phuong won the only gold medal for Vietnam at ASIAD in the women’s karate 55kg category, she came third with 1,047 points.

The other winners in the top 10 were the world’s number seven badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh (631 points), track and field athlete Vu Van Huyen (582 points), chess player Le Quang Liem (558 points), weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan (331 points), shooter Ha Minh Thanh (274 points), wrestler Le Thi Lua (257 points), and swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc (218).

For contributing to the track and field team’s great victory last year, coach Ho Thi Tu Tam from Danang Sports Training Center was voted Coach of the Year 2010 with 463 points, beating Karate head coach Le Cong from the Army team and track and field coach Nguyen Dinh Minh from HCMC, who won second and third places with 395 and 376 points respectively

Meanwhile, shooting coach Nguyen Thi Nhung from the General Department of Sports and Physical Training earned fourth position with 167 points, followed by chess coach Lam Minh Chau from HCMC with 138 points.

Swimmer Vo Thanh Tung from HCMC, who won a gold and a silver at the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China, won the best para-athlete award with 550 points, while badminton coach Le Thuy Ha received the nomination for most outstanding coach for disabled athletes in the vote by journalists and sports experts with 332 points.

Hundreds of sports experts and journalists from Hanoi, HCMC and Danang voted over the weekend for the top 10 athletes, top five coaches, top five para-athletes and top three para-athletes’ coaches.

The annual vote was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Fund for Supporting Young Talent and The Thao Viet Nam (Vietnam Sports) newspaper.

VN folk painting exhibition opens in Laos

A folk painting exhibition of Vietnam was held in the Lao Capital of
Vientiane on Jan.10 to mark the 81 st anniversary of the Communist
Party of Vietnam’s foundation (Feb. 3, 1930 - Feb. 3, 2011), the 11 th
National Party Congress and the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

The 3-day event is co-organised by Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Vietnamese Culture Centre in Laos.

Attending the opening ceremony were the Lao Minister of Information
and Culture Mounkeo Oraboune, the Lao Minister of Health Ponmek Dalaloy;
the Charge d’affaires of the Vietnamese Embassy to Laos Luong Quoc Huy
and other officials from the two nations.

On
display are typical folk paintings of Vietnam such as the Dong Ho
style (Bac Ninh province), the Hang Trong ( Hanoi ), the Kim Hoang (Ha
Tay province), the Lang Sinh ( Hue ) and the 19 th century’s ancient
worship paintings of Nghe An province.

Through its
profound contents, the exhibition helps spectators to further understand
the quintessential colours and meanings of the Vietnamese folk painting
genre, which are made of traditional materials with an original
artistry.

The exhibition, which also aims to
further strengthen friendly relations between Vietnam and Lao, will
be on display until March 10./.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Sprinter Huong tops list of outstanding athletes

Sprinter Vu Thi Huong topped this year's
poll on Vietnam's most outstanding athletes and coaches.

Huong, 25, who won a bronze medal in the women's 100m and a silver in
the 200m in the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, notched up 1,213
points in the poll. She edged out teammates Truong Thanh Hang, who came
in with 1,208 points to make the top ten list; Karateist Le Bich Phuong,
who won Vietnam's only gold medal to salvage Vietnamese pride in the
martial arts competitions at the Asian Games, ranked third with 1,047
points; and badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh placed fourth.

Swimmer Vo Thanh Tung topped the list of disabled athletes with 550
points. He won a gold medal in the men's 50m freestyle at the Asian
ParaGames for disabled athletes in Guangzhou, China last December.

Runner-up was badminton player Pham Duc Trung, who also
grabbed a gold in the Asian ParaGames, gaining 480 points from the
selection. Another badminton player, Hoang Pham Thang, placed third,
winning 376 points.

In the coaches category, coach Ho Thi
Tu Tam won 463 points to take the top spot. The army's karate coach, Le
Cong, took second ahead of track and field coach Nguyen Dinh Minh.
Badminton coach Le Thuy Nga was voted the top coach for disabled
athletes.

The awards are jointly organised by the Ministry
of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union,
the Vietnam Fund for Young Talent Support and The Thao Vietnam (Vietnam
Sports) newspaper.

A gala to honour athletes and coaches will be held in Hanoi next month./.

Vietnam symphony orchestra performs in US

Artists from the Vietnam National
Symphony Orchestra (VNNO) joined with others from Japan, the Republic
of Korea and the United States in a concert at Carnegie Hall in
New York on Jan. 8.

Themed “Peace”, the joint concert was the
first of its kind in New York, drawing diplomat officials and audiences
from the four countries.

With works by the world’s well-known
composers of Mikhail Glinka, Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, the
artists reflected the aspiration of peace and friendship among nations.

Ambassador
Bui The Giang, Deputy Head of the Vietnamese permanent delegation to
the UN, said this is first time in New York a join music concert of
Vietnam, the RoK, Japan and the US has taken place.

“This is a
symbol of development of friendship and cooperation among nations and
delivers a message of peace and friendship to people all over the
world,” Ambassador Giang said before the performance.

The concert
under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji is performed by
artists from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, the US Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra and 16-year-old pianist Isadora Kim of the RoK./.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

CPV photo exhibition opens in Hai Phong

An exhibition showcasing 100 photos and documents entitled, “Communist
Party of Vietnam, from Congress to Congress and President Ho Chi Minh –
National hero, pre-eminent culture man of Vietnam ” opened in the
northern port city of Hai Phong on Jan.7.

The exhibition, co-organised by the Hai Phong Culture, Sports and
Tourism Department, the Vietnam News Agency, the Vietnam
Revolutionary Museum and the Ho Chi Minh Museum, is one of the
activities to welcome the 11th upcoming National Party Congress.

The exhibition aims to recapitulate a glorious history period of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Each step and victory of the Vietnamese revolution engraves another
stamp of approval on the cherised reputation of President Ho Chi Minh.
Each Party Congress is a milestone in the historical process of the
Party and the Nation, and a time for the entire Party and people to
review the glorious and historical revolution process of the Nation.

The exhibition will last until Jan.20./.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Top sportspeople to be honoured

Hundreds of journalists and sports
aficionados cast their votes for the athletes and coaches of the year in
Hanoi, Da Nang and HCM City on Jan. 6.

Track and field athletes, who excelled at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China last year, are expected to dominate this years awards for
outstanding sporting achievements.

The annual awards were launched 33 years ago and have become an indispensable part of the sporting calendar.

Notable performances at the Guangzhou Games came from sprinter Vu Thi
Huong, who won a bronze medal in the women's 100m and a 200m silver;
Truong Thanh Hang, who won silvers in the 800 and 1,500m and bronze
medal decathlete Vu Van Huyen.

Karateist Le Bich
Phuong, who won Viet Nam's only gold medal to salvage Vietnamese
pride in the martial arts competitions at the Games, is likely to win
the poll.

Other candidates for honours include men's
chess player Le Quang Liem, shooter Ha Minh Thanh and Youth Olympics
weightlifting gold medallist Thach Kim Tuan.

Voters also nominated their choices for Vietnam's best coaches and disabled athletes in Jan. 6's poll.

The awards are jointly organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Fund for
Young Talent Support and The Thao Vietnam (Vietnam Sports) newspaper.

The final results will be officially announced this
week, while a gala night to honour athletes and coaches will be held in
Hanoi next month. /.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Top ten events in culture, sports and tourism in 2010

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and
Tourism officially announced ten outstanding cultural, sports and
tourism activities in 2010 in Hanoi on Dec. 30. They are:

1.
Cultural and fine arts activities mark major celebrations, including the
80th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the
national commemoration of the Hung Kings and the Hung King Temple
Festival, the 35th anniversary of the liberation of the south and
national reunification, President Ho Chi Minh’s 120th birthday, the 65th
anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (Sept. 2) and the
80th anniversary of the Vietnam National United Front.

2.
Cultural, sports and tourism activities mark the grand celebration of
the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, including the biggest-ever
parade held at Ba Dinh Square on October 10, the opening of the
Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups, an exhibition on
Vietnam’s socio-economic achievements and Thang Long-Hanoi, the “Thang
Long-Hanoi craft villages and streets” festival, the sport competitions
and the Vietnamese film days for 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi.

3.
Vietnam’s heritages have been recognised by UNESCO, including the Thang
Long Imperial Citadel recognised as a world cultural heritage site, the
Saint Giong Festival in Phu Dong and Soc Temples as an Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity and the 82 doctoral stone steles at the
Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first university, recognised as a world
documentary heritage.

4. Cultural activities were held to
promote Vietnam’s land and people abroad, including the National Day at
the 2010 Shanghai EXPO and the Vietnam Culture Week in Cuba, Mexico,
Germany, Belgium, Cambodia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, China
and India.

5. International cultural and sport events were held for
the first time in Vietnam, including the International Photo Exhibition,
International Film Festival, International Piano Contest, Miss Earth
and the Thang Long-Hanoi International Football Cup to celebrate the
capital city’s millennium birthday.

6. Director and People’s Artist
Dang Nhat Minh was honoured by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences for his contributions to the Vietnam’s cinematography.

7. Sports festivals at all levels and the seventh national sports festival were held.

8.
The Vietnamese sport delegation bagged 33 medals including those at
five Olympics sport events for the first time at the 16th Asian Games
(ASIAD 16); and the Vietnamese disabled athletes secured 17 medals,
placing 11th out of 42 delegations at the first Asian Para Games.

9. Vietnam’s tourism sector welcomed five millionth foreign visitor.

10.
Tourism promotion campaign in 2010 “Vietnam-Your destination”
contributed to attract foreign tourists to Vietnam and promoting
domestic tourism. The campaign helped Vietnam welcome over five million
foreign arrivals, 28 million local visitors and grossed an estimated
revenue of 100 trillion VND./.

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