VietNam Culture

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./.

Top sportspeople to be honoured

Hundreds of journalists and sports aficionados cast their votes for the athletes and coaches of the year in Ha Noi, Danang and HCMC Thursday.

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 Viet Nam's best coaches and disabled athletes in yesterday's poll.

The awards are jointly organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Viet Nam 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 Ha Noi next month.

Top sportspeople to be honoured

Hundreds of journalists and sports aficionados cast their votes for the athletes and coaches of the year in Ha Noi, Danang and HCMC Thursday.

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.

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 Viet Nam's best coaches and disabled athletes in yesterday's poll.

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

Football legend Pele to visit Vietnam?

The legendary Brazilian footballer Pele could attend the third coffee festival on March 10-13 in Buon Ma Thuoc city in the central highland province of Dak Lak, according to a source.

The Trung Nguyen Coffee Group has invited Pele to attend the festival but the king of football has not responded so far.

Pele would not play football but is expected to deliver a speech on the inauguration ceremony of the festival as a coffee ambassador from Brazil - the country with the highest coffee yield in the world.

Since being held for the first time in 2005, the national-level festival has been organized once every two years.

This year’s festival will be bigger in scale with outdoor stages and spaces for art activities in different locations.

During the event, there will be programs including an international coffee seminar, a music show themed “Legendary Coffee” and the inauguration of the first World Coffee Museum in Vietnam.

Lu Ngoc Cu, Chairman of Dak Lak People’s Committee said the festival is an important event for cultural exchange and commercial links with foreign countries while helping emphasize the unique trait of the province’s festival.

Currently, Vietnam, which makes more than 1 million tons of coffee per year, is the second biggest coffee producer in the world, second only to Brazil.

Dak Lak province alone accounts for 60 percent of Vietnam’s coffee production and is home to the famous coffee brand Trung Nguyen.

Pele, 60 years old, has scored 760 official goals in his career and is the top scorer of all time.

He was voted as the Football Player of the Century by the IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics in 1999.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Liem slip-up throws tournament open

With Vietnam's top-seeded
Grandmaster Le Quang Liem suffering his first defeat on Jan. 6, the
HDBank Open Cup chess tournament has been thrown wide open.

At the Rex Hotel in HCM City, Liem, the world No 79,
surprisingly lost to eighth-seeded Filipino GM Gomez John Paul in the
fifth round.

Paul now tops the table with five points.

He is followed by Chinese GM Yu Yangyi with 4.5 points and Vietnamese
GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, who is on four points after beating another
Chinese GM Zhou Weiqi on Jan. 6.

The loss has left
20-year-old Liem on 3.5 points. With just four more rounds to go, Liem
may have left himself with too much to do to win his first title of the
year.

Earlier, he had beaten Singapore 's Fernandez
Daniel Howard in the first round and China 's GM Lou Yiping in the
second round, drew with Bitoon Richard of the Philippines, and beat
compatriot Nguyen Duc Hoa in the fourth.

Also on 3.5
points are GMs Cao Sang and Tran Thanh Tu of Vietnam, Richard, GMs
Laylo Darwin and Salvador Roland and IMs Barbosa Oliver and Dimakiling
of the Philippines, GMs Wen Yang, Zhao Jun, and Wang Chen of China .

The week-long tournament has attracted 30 Vietnamese
players and 35 others from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and Ukraine.

It concludes on Jan. 9./.

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. /.

V-League TV rights still in contention

HA NOI – Agreements concerning V-League's broadcasting rights have to yet to be finalised after cable TV provider Audio Vision Global (AVG) and television stations held meetings yesterday.

AVG, who won a 20-year contract with the Viet Nam Football Federation last December to broadcast V-League matches, has been offering local television stations rights to broadcast V-League matches this year, but the negotiations have not been finalised.

AVG, which is licensed to operate a satellite and digital television company, plans to officially launch a 70-channel TV package later this year. The company has set a deadline for local TV stations to sign TV deals by Monday.

The V-League will kick off on January 23, but Vietnamese fans will not be able to watch any matches if an agreement is not made by next week.

Representatives from Viet Nam Television channel 3 said it'll try to buy the rights to broadcast the V-League matches this year.

The national football championship has been a money maker for the VFF since 2004, when Viet Nam Television paid VND4 billion ($200,000) to broadcast V-League matches.

The cable TV provider, a member of the An Vien Group, was established in 2008 with VND1,800 billion ($85 million) in charter capital. - VNS

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