Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are promoting reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are promoting reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.

 

The reading encouragement week, themed “Books and the young community”, was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on April 19, on the occasion of the sixth Vietnam Book Day (April 21).

 

  A number of activities will be held in response to third Vietnam Book Day (April 21).

VietNamNet Bridge - Educators say that students are not reading books, resulting in increased violence, poor understanding of people and the world, and less empathy.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and French experts this week joined an international conference focusing on literature translation.

The US embassy has given US$40,000 to authorities in the northern province of Vinh Phuc to enable them to restore a traditional dinh (communal house) built nearly 300 years ago.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese information technology (IT) engineer has finished a long arduous trans-Vietnam journey, running more than 1,700km from north to south in less than 35 days to instil reading culture in young people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese people read 0.8 books a year on average, said an official of the Ministry of Culture - Sports - Tourism at a press conference last week. The figure stunned the press.