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The event is to encourage local people and tourists to show their appreciation and highlight the world cultural heritage town and focus on its ecology, culture and tourism.
The photos can be in color or black and white and must have been taken within the last 12 months and of course have not been part of local and regional competitions or exhibitions.
Entries’ subjects must feature either positive or negative images of the ancient location.
Organizers only accept efforts with information like the time, location and subjects but will refuse photos used with photoshop. Each work must not exceed ten photos but must have a minimum of four photos.
Contestants have to send their entries via post sized between 13x18cm and 30x45cm size or less than 2Mb-size emails under JPEG (.JPG) format.
The contest runs until Tuesday. For further details, contact the Hoi An Department of Culture and Information at 12 Phan Chau Trinh Street, Quang Nam Province, emal: trungvhtt@gmail.com, tel. 0510 3863054 or 0983086717.
One first prize, two second, three third and five consolation awards are up for grabs. The award ceremony is set to be held on November 5 at the Hoi An Museum, 10B Tran Hung Dao Street, Hoi An, Quang Nam Province.
Exhibition commemorates Australian journalist
An exhibition featuring 100 photos taken by Wilfred Burchett, one of the most outstanding journalists in the 20th century and a great Australian friend of Vietnam, opened in HCM City on October 28.
Under the theme “Wilfred Burchett and Vietnam”, the exhibition is co-organised by the Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Vietnam-Australia Friendship Association and family of Wilfred Burchett in commemoration of the journalist’s 100th birthday (September 16).
The photos depict the former Viet Bac revolutionary base, the Dien Bien Phu Battlefield, the daily life of northern people in the 1954-1956 period, images of combats in southern battlefields from 1963-1964.
Especially, a number of photos highlight the great friendship between the author with President Ho Chi Minh, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and many other Vietnamese leaders, showcasing his strong support for Vietnam’s revolutionary struggles against the French colonists and the US imperialists.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi said Wilfred Burchett was not only a great journalist but also a great friend who always supported the Vietnamese people’s resistance war against the US.
The exhibition, which will run until November 25, serves as a chance for younger generations to get a better understanding about the Vietnamese people’s life during wartime and commemorate the great contributions made by the Australian journalist in the war.
World arms museum in VN to open next month
The first Vietnam’s private arms museum featuring the world’s wars from the 17th – 20th centuries will open next month in Vung Tau.
Named “The worldwide arms museum,” the 1,500 square meters museum founded by English businessman Mr. Robert Taylor and his wife Mrs. Nguyen Thi Bong promises to be an attractive destination for people interested in world history of warfare.
Architecturally designed like an ancient fort, the museum located at 14 Ha Long Street showcases 1,200 guns, 1,000 swords, other military equipment and 500 mannequins wearing military uniforms from Asia and European countries in previous centuries.
The space inside the museum is designed to recall the world’s most famous wars. The lobby is decorated with a wall sculpture featuring the Battle of Hennersdorf in 1745 in Poland. Other well-known battles led by kings and generals, such as Napoleon Bonaparte in 18th century, were also painted vividly on the museum’s ceiling.
Robert Taylor, 66, started his collection at the age of 18. After marrying Bong and settling in Vung Tau since 1991, the couple developed the idea of building a museum to house and display Robert’s collection.
“We decide to open the museum in order to bring the world’s history of warfare to Vietnam since my husband considers the country his second homeland,” Bong said.
It also took them years to obtain the approval to ship the weapons to Vietnam even though they were non-operational, they shared.
Well-known Dutch pianist to perform in Hanoi
Well-known Netherlands pianist Martyn van den Hoek will perform in Hanoi next month.
Martyn van den Hoek graduated from the Rotterdam conservatory in 1975 at the age of 18.
In 1986, he won the first prize at the International Franz Liszt Competition, soon followed by the Netherlands Music Prize in 1987.
In 1996, he founded the Central Music Festival center providing master classes for music lovers in the Austrian town of Bad Aussee.
He has released 23 CDs. His latest CD covers Mozart Concerti K.413, K.414 and K.415.
The show will take place at 8pm on November 4 at the Center Hall of Vietnamese Cultural Space at 16 Le Thai To Street.
Vietnamese movie projects get Dutch subsidy
Two Vietnamese film projects will be among 11 to get financial assistance from the 2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund to support cinema.
“Ngu mo” (Dream State) to be directed by Bui Thac Chuyen and “Cha va con va nhung cau chuyen khac” (Big father, small father and other stories) directed by Phan Dang Di will each receive 10,000 euro (US$14,100) for developing the script.
They were chosen along with nine others from Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominica, Indonesia, Paraguay, Rwanda, and Kenya out of 213 applicants.
Since its establishment in 1988, the fund has subsidized some 900 movies by independent filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
Films made with support from the fund will be screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam every year.
One of the largest public film events in the world, the festival actively supports independent filmmaking from around the world and is a recognized platform in Europe for launching new films and talent from Asia, Africa, Middle and Eastern Europe and Latin America.
The 2012 festival will be held from January 25 to February 5.
Room to Read founder back in Vietnam
John Wood, founder of Room to Read, the global nonprofit that supports education in Asia and Africa, is in Vietnam to donate books to children in the Mekong Delta.
At an event called “10 Million Books For Children” held at Ngu Hiep 2 Primary School in Tien Giang Province today, he will donate some new books, including “Di cho mua nuoc noi” (Go to the market in the flood season), “Giac mo cua hat mam” (The seed’s dream), and “Cuoc phieu luu cua ban ca con” (Little fish’s adventure).
The books have been published by his organization together with the Tre Publishing House.
The event title refers to the number of books the organization has gifted to kids in Asia and Africa.
Talking about Room to Read, Wood, an American national, told Tuoi Tre that in the last 10 years it had helped six million kids around the world by opening 1,500 schools and 12,000 libraries.
“The goal of the organization is to bring education to kids around the world. We do hope to reach 10 million, then 20 million, children in the future”.
Wood, who quit his job as Microsoft's director of business development to found Room to Read at 35 – as he tells in his book “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” -- said he preferred to work to help other people rather than for his own benefit.
He gave the example of Nguyen Thai Vu, a Vietnamese with a passion for computing he had met in Hue in 2001.
With Wood’s help, Vu studied software engineering and went on to achieve success.
This was proof of the power of education to change people’s lives and it motivated him to expand his organization’s activities to Vietnam, Wood said.
In Vietnam, Room to Read has so far published 351,000 copies of 49 books and donated to children.
It has also opened 567 children’s libraries in the Mekong Delta and several northern provinces.
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