Young artist receives top award

The Young Talent Prize was awarded to artist Pham Tuan Tu on Nov. 1 in Hanoi.

Tu will receive a grant of 1,000 USD in cash and 2,700 USD for his solo exhibition where he will present his new pieces.

They include four paintings titled Bud, In Front of the Mirror, Gay and Uni-sex which are all acrylic on canvas.

He uses a reduced colour palette. With his greys, browns and
dim-yellows he creates an almost medieval ornamental background for his
highly emotional and intimate plots, according to Natasha Kraevskaia, a
member of the judging panel.

The sexually ambiguous
characters in Tu's painting are perplexing. Based on the titles of the
paintings, they are identified as gay or lesbian, but they are really
depicted as transgender characters in his paintings.

"The
viewer can see the same face, but we cannot say that it's a recurring
image. Each piece expresses different feelings: from relaxation and
dreams to fears and phobias," said Kraevskaia.

Born in
1981, Tu is a graduate from Hanoi College of Industrial Fine Arts. He is
a member of the Club for Young Artists of Vietnam Fine Arts Association
and has participated in a number of exhibitions in Hanoi over the
past two years.

He was chosen from eight artists based on aesthetics, relevance, context and originality.

The eight finalists have been exhibiting their paintings at the Fine
Arts College where their work has been on display to the public.

The competition website also functioned as a forum for comments and
discussions about the various works. Many remarks were submitted and
these discussions will help inspire up and coming artists.

The Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund will award a prize of
2 million VND for the best comment by the end of this week.

This year's competition drew the attention of artists from Hanoi ,
HCM City , Hue and various other localities across Vietnam .

More than 700 images were submitted by 165 applicants./.

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29 Vietnamese youths to join regional ship

A two-week training course for 29 young Vietnamese people who will
attend the 37th Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme (SSEAYP) 2010
opened in Hanoi on Oct. 11.

The Vietnamese youth,
together with young people from Thailand  Malaysia, Singapore and
Indonesia , will join the programme, to be held in Japan from Oct.
25-Dec. 16.

As planned, the Vietnamese delegation,
led by Phan Thi Thuy Tram, Deputy Director of the Northern Investment
Promotion Centre, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, will organise
“Vietnam Day” on Dec. 5.

This year’s programme,
themed “Youth Participation in Social Activities,” will offer the
participants opportunities to analyse their role in the socio-economic
development of each country and discuss activities to improve their
involvement.

SSEAYP is a regional youth exchange programme, drawing the participation of ten ASEAN members and Japan .

Starting in 1974 following the initiative of the governments of Japan,
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, the
programme helps to strengthen friendship and mutual understanding
between young Japanese and Southeast Asian people./.

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National U.21 football event gets underway

The 2010 National U.21 Football Final Round will stay true to its “green-clean and beautiful, “policy, Thanh Nien Media Corporation Chairman Nguyen Cong Khe said at a press conference in Gia Lai Province on Wednesday,

Khe, chief of the October-7-to-17 event organizing committee, also said they would consistently work to improve the quality of the game.

“The U.21 tournament will always be a healthy playground where young talents are found for Vietnamese football.”

It is also a stepping stone for many young players to join the National U23 squad and the National team and help young players improve and make contributions to their clubs, as well, Khe said.

The past 13 national events and three international U.21 events (also sponsored by Thanh Nien) have found and introduced good players who have been key to the success of the national teams.

Some of these people include Cong Vinh, Hong Son, Tan Tai and Quang Hai who together helped earn Vietnam the Suzuki ASEAN Football Federation Cup in 2008.

The organizers of the 14th youth football tournament in Pleiku Town have decided to allow free entry to the matches.

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Activities mark Hanoi’s 1,000th birthday

An imposing street festival took place in Hanoi on October 8,
representing the Vietnamese young generation’s sentiment, responsibility
and love to Hanoi on the occasion of its 1,000 th birthday.

The programme, entitled “Youths ascend with the country”, drew the
participation of 10,000 Youth Union members, teenagers and artists of
professional art troupes from three regions of the country as well as
many foreign young people and students.

The
festival opened with a special art performance by Vietnamese and foreign
youths and continued with a parade of young people from the capital.

A tour of several streets around Hoan Kiem Lake wrapped up the
festival, leaving deep impressions on visitors to the 1,000-year-old
capital city of Hanoi .

At the festival, the Ho
Chi Minh City Youth Union Central Committee called on young people
throughout the country to support flood victims in central provinces .
To date, youth nationwide raised nearly 2 billion for the victims.

On the same day, more than 3,000 young people in Ho Chi Minh City
took part in a programme entitled, “Towards the capital city- 1,000
years of culture” in Dam Sen Cultural Park.

The
Hanoi People’s Committee held a ceremony to name “The work celebrating
the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” for complexes of works at
Hanoi Elite Athlete Training Centre in Tu Liem district’s My Dinh
commune.

The Hai Phong city Buddhist Association
and the People’s Committee of Do Son district jointly held a programme
to celebrate the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and a
ceremony to inaugurate a bell of the Ly dynasty at the Tuong Long Tower
Pagoda.

On the day, the Mekong Delta province of
Vinh Long inaugurated the Binh Minh district General Hospital, which was
named, “The work celebrating the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang
Long-Hanoi”./.

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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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Women’s football coach selects young team for Asiad

Photo: Reuters

Chinese coach Chow Yun Fat of Vietnam announced Wednesday his national women’s football team for the 2010 Asian Games in November in China, mainly selecting young players to keep with his long-term plans.

Among the 24 players named, only six of them are veterans who crowned the championship title at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Laos. All others are under 20 years old.

“We are willing to suffer a loss at the Asiad next month to learn and train for later tournaments as SEA Games 2011”, said the vice chief of the Vietnam Football Federation’s national teams department Nguyen Trong Giap.

“We look forward to achievements in coming years with this young team,” he added.

“Our veterans (as Kim Chi, Dao Thi Mien, Ngoc Cham and Mai Lan) have made great contributions and need time to take care of their own families”.

The players will start their training camp on Friday in Hanoi and depart for another training session in China early next month till the start of the games on November 12-27 in Guangzhou Province.

The team

Goalkeepers: Kieu Trinh, Thu Trang, Duong Thi Danh

Defenders: Ngoc Anh, Thuy An, Nguyen Thi Nga, Duong Thi Binh, Thuy Linh, Nguyen Thi Mai, Hai Hoa, Bui Thi Nhu

Midfielders: Le Thi Thuong, Nguyen Thi Hanh, Kim Tien, Mai Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Muon, Huyen Linh, Kim Hong

Strikers: Minh Nguyet, Nguyen Thi Thanh, Nguyen Thi Hoa, Bui Thi Phuong, Hoang Thi Luyen, Thanh Huong

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