VietNamNet Bridge – A programme of song, dance and comedy will be broadcast live from the Au Co Theatre in Ha Noi on Viet Nam Television's VTV 3 on March 11 to bring attention to the Goverment's Traffic Safety Year 2012 community awareness campaign.

Entitled Traffic Safety for Me, for You and for All, the programme is being co-sponsored by the Transportation newspaper and produced by veteran director Le Hung with the participation of artists from the Youth Theatre.

* Ninh Binh promotes art of blind minstrel singing

A performance of xam (strolling blind minstrel singing) was held on Wednesday in the northern province of Ninh Binh as part of the Traditional Xam Preservation and Promotion Project. The project was launched last year with the participation of veteran artists from around the country who dedicated themselves to collecting the old tunes and teaching them to younger singers.

Xam was a traditional folk culture familiar to many generations of Vietnamese, said Ninh Binh People's Committee vice chairman Tran Huu Binh. "The art is in risk of decline as the artists are getting old and a new generation hasn't been trained," Binh said.

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