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Monday, October 11, 2010

Projects inaugurated to mark Hanoi’s millennium

Projects inaugurated to mark Hanoi’s millennium

Hoa Binh Park in Tu Liem district of Hanoi opened to visitors
on Oct. 8 as a project to mark the capital city’s millennium.


Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan attended the opening ceremony.


The 20-ha park has a 20-tonne bronze peace statue, trees, a 5.4 ha lake, a games house and entertainment facilities.


The same day, the expanded section of Le Van Luong road opened to traffic to mark the 1,000 th anniversary of Hanoi .


The six-lane road with a length of 2.67 km was built at a cost of nearly 700 billion VND (36.8 million USD).


The
road’s operation will contribute to an easing of traffic jams on
Nguyen Trai Road , the national highway No. 6, and facilitate
socio-economic development in the capital city’s western region.


Also
on Oct. 8, young people held a giant programme, including art
performances, exhibitions and street festivals across the country, to
celebrate the millennium anniversary.


The
programme started in Hanoi with an incense offering ceremony at King
Ly Thai To statue in Hanoi and an art performance of 3,500 children
and young people of Hanoi and 65 young foreigners around Hoan Kiem
Lake .


The programme continued with a
performance of dragon and unicorn dances as well as singing and
dancing simultaneously in Hanoi , the central city of Da Nang and
Ho Chi Minh City .


Also in the morning of the
day, 1,000 children drew a large painting on the theme, “I love Hanoi ”
at Hoan Kiem Lake , while performances of songs and dances took
place at universities, colleges and senior high schools nationwide.


As part of the programme, an exhibition of photos and objects was
held around Thien Quang lake in Hanoi . Over 600 photos, documents
and objects were displayed under the theme, “Vietnamese Youth – proud of
1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi and National Construction”.


A three-day festival of young people of ASEAN+3 (ASEAN countries and
China , Japan and the Republic of Korea ) was
held from Oct. 6. Festival participants took the occasion to boost
exchanges and establish cooperation in many fields.


Young people from the northern province of Bac Ninh brought a
collage painting, the largest of its kind in Vietnam , to the
festival.


In the evening, a street festival is expected to be held with singing, dancing and a parade around the centre of Hanoi./.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Arts in spotlight as youth mark millennium

Arts in spotlight as youth mark millennium

Young people will hold many activities from art performances to
exhibitions and street festivals across the country on Oct. 8 to
celebrate the 1,000 th birthday of Hanoi.


At a press
briefing in Hanoi on Oct.5, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union
Central Committee said celebrations will start in Hanoi with an incense
offering ceremony at the King Ly Thai To statue in Hanoi and an art
performance of 3,500 children and young people of Hanoi and 65 young
foreigners around the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.


The programme will
continue with a performance of drums and clarinets as well as singing
and dancing at the same time in Hanoi , the central city of Da Nang
and Ho Chi Minh City .


Also in the morning of the day 1,000
children will draw paintings following the theme “I love Hanoi ” around
the Hoan Kiem Lake , while performances of songs and dances will
take place at universities, colleges and senior high-schools
nationwide.


As part of the programme, an exhibition of photos and
objects will be held around Thien Quang lake in Hanoi . Over 600
photos, documents and objects will be displayed under the theme of
“Vietnamese Youth – proud of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi and
National Construction”.


A three-day festival of young people of
ASEAN+3 (ASEAN countries and China , Japan and the Republic of
Korea ) will be held from Oct. 6. Participants of the festival plan to
take this occasion to boost exchanges and establish cooperation in many
fields.


Young people from the northern province of Bac Ninh
will bring a collage painting, the largest of its kind in Vietnam ,
to the festival.


In the evening of Oct. 8, a street festival will be held with singing, dancing and a parade around the centre of Hanoi .


On
Oct. 5, an exhibition of Bat Trang ceramic craft village of Hanoi
opened to celebrate Hanoi birthday. Also on display at the
exhibition are products from other traditional ceramic craft villages in
the country.


In the same vein, an artistic photo festival of 15
northern mountainous provinces also opened on Oct. 5 in Dien Bien Phu
city, Dien Bien province.


Exhibits are 205 photos selected from
1,219 entries to the festival, capturing the beauty of nature, the
people and their daily lives. Of these photos, 24 were awarded with
prizes.


Also, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the northern
province of Thai Binh jointly opened an exhibition of 120 photos of
Hanoi and Thai Binh./.

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