Hundreds aspire for Miss Delta title

Hundreds of young women living in the Mekong Delta participated in the selection round of the 2015 Miss Mekong Delta pageant in Can Tho City this week.

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The contestants are mostly college and university students aged between 18 and 23, and need to fulfill certain physical criteria.

The organisers, Can Tho and advertising and trading company Sen Vang, said they had invited an expert jury to nominate 30 candidates for the semi final in mid-May.

The ladies will compete in traditional costumes, swimsuits, and evening wear and take part in a question-and-answer session.

There will also be two other events to highlight their talent and charity work.

Only five will go through to the final on June 27 in Can Tho, which will be broadcast live on HCM City Television and several provincial stations.

The winner will get a VND300 million (nearly US$15,000) prize and the runner-up will take home VND150 million ($7,500).

Vietnam Spring Press Festival 2015 opens in Laos

A Vietnam Spring Press Festival 2015 opened at a ceremony in Vientiane, Laos on April 10 on the occasion of the Lao traditional New Year Festival Bun Pi May.

The event is being co-organised by Vietnam’s Ministries of Information and Communications (MIC); Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnamese Embassy to Laos.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of MIC Truong Minh Tuan said Vietnam’s press has always reserved plenty of room to cover achievements in politics, economy, culture, and society of the Laos’ Party, Government and people.

On his part, Lao Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Savankhone Razmontry stated the event has helped to fortify the special relation and solidarity of Vietnam and Laos.

The festival features thousands of Spring publications of the Vietnamese press. It will run until April 20.

On the occasion, Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan presented 100 movies on Vietnam’s country and people as a gift to the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Laos.

Vietnam attends multicultural festival in Egypt

The Vietnam embassy in Egypt along with hundreds of Overseas Vietnamese and students from the Vietnamese Student Association are participating in this year’s annual multicultural Zee festival in Sheikh Zayed, Cairo.

During the two-week event, which kicked off on April 2, Vietnam is sponsoring a number of booths featuring the nation’s culinary arts and such traditional foods as spring rolls, pho and nem.

Other booths are distributing photos, brochures and leaflets touting Vietnam as a world-class tourism destination along with showing a 7-minute tourism video that has added colour to the ethnic and cultural diversity of the festival.  

While yet others are casting the spotlight on traditional handicrafts and artworks of the nation’s ethnic groups. On the occasion, the embassy staff and Vietnamese students are introducing the unique characteristics of Vietnam’s Lunar New Year festival to international visitors.

The multicultural festival is one of Egypt’s largest annual cultural activities, which annually attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe.

Writing forum opens in HCM City

Amateur writers in Viet Nam and abroad are encouraged to participate in a writing forum to be held by the HCM City-based Phu Nu (Woman) newspaper this week.

The forum's theme is Sai Gon Toi Yeu (Sai Gon – I Love You), and it focuses on the lives of people in HCM City, their dreams and their challenges at work.

Writing on memories of Sai Gon (former name of HCM City) and its culture and lifestyle is also encouraged.

The organisers hope the forum will introduce the beauty of Sai Gon to the world.

Submissions should be no fewer than 1,000 words and the best ones will be published.

People interested in participating should send their works to saigontoiyeu@baophunu.org.vn.

VTV9 to broadcast reality-talk show

Viet Nam Television's VTV9 channel and furniture and home decor retail chain UMA Viet Nam are set to run a reality-talk show on furniture and interior decoration.

O Nha Voi Ong Tam (Staying Home with Mr Eighth), which will air every Saturday starting on April 25, will talk about housing design and decoration, with an expert panel offering tips on decoration.

Interestingly, the experts will also help solve a real house design or decoration problem for an invited guest.

The invitees will include celebrities and common people from various backgrounds.

For anyone wanting to be a guest on the show, more information is available at www.uma.vn and UMA stores in HCM City.

Swedish furniture expert August Wingardh and two other furniture designers at UMA will make up the expert panel.

The 24-episode show will focus on a different topic each week.

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