Asia Student Package Design Competition open for entriesBy Minh Tuan One of the designs that won the 2017 ASPaC Awards - PHOTO: COURTESY OF ASPAC The 2018 Asia Student Package Design Competition (ASPaC) has begun receiving entries. The prizes include 200,000 yen in cash and a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to attend the ASPaC Week. The theme of the contest is innovation which is broadly described as a new method, idea and product. The challenge is to create packaging of any kind that has never existed before. If professional designers tackle this challenge in the real world, they would need to deal with issues such as material, technology and manufacturing cost. Students participating in ASPaC, however, are free to ignore these practical problems and to approach the problem on the purely conceptual level of “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do package design like this?” ASPaC is a new international cultural exchange project that the Japan Foundation and the … [Read more...] about Asia Student Package Design Competition open for entries
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Vietnamese girls win third prize at US science fair with antibiotic resistance solution
Two Vietnamese high school students claimed third award for their research on an antibiotic resistant infection at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the U.S. on Sunday, the organizing committee said on its website. Pham Thi Minh Hue and Le Tuyet Quynh Anh from the northern city of Hai Phong were named among four third-award winners in the biochemistry category and brought home $1,000 for their project named “A Solution for Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Vietnam.” This was the only award-winning project among eight Vietnamese entries at this year contest. Vietnam’s antibiotics sales have doubled since 2009, with more people taking unnecessary prescriptions, putting the community more at risk of drug resistance, experts said at conference in Hanoi this month. The World Health Organization has listed Vietnam among the list of nations with the highest rate of antibiotic-resistant infections, standing at 33 … [Read more...] about Vietnamese girls win third prize at US science fair with antibiotic resistance solution
Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival
Painter Nguyễn Thu Thủy presents her mural to soldiers, a scene in the film directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan. — Photo courtesy of the artistViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A documentary about the ceramic art of Nguyễn Thu Thủy won two prizes at the Top Shorts online film festival, the organiser announced recently on its website. The film Thu Thủy - A Dream of Ceramics was directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan from Việt Nam Television during 2006-17. It tracks the career of painter Thủy, who has created various notable artworks, such as the Ceramic Road along Red River (Guinness World Record for being the largest ceramic mosaic in the world), Mirror House in downtown Hà Nội (silver trophy at the International A’ Design Awards 2018) and a mural of Vietnamese trees and flowers at Đà Nẵng International Airport (a bronze at the 10th International Design Awards in Los Angeles, US). … [Read more...] about Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival
Go-kart accident victim wins $3,500 lawsuit against track operator in Vietnam
A man who suffered intestinal perforation after a go-kart accident in southern Vietnam in 2015 was awarded US$3,500 in damages from the company that operated the attraction. The company was sued for operating a poorly designed race track and failing to provide the necessary equipment to protect players in the event of an accident. The lawsuit was filed by Pham Minh Luan, 25, against the Vung Tau Cable Car Company, the owner of Ho May Park in Vung Tau City, a beach town in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, where the racing game took place. The case was brought before the People’s Court of Vung Tau on Wednesday, where Luan demanded that the company pay VND90 million ($3,900) in compensation for the health and mental impact he suffered from the accident. According to Luan’s lawsuit, he and a group of friends from Ho Chi Minh City arrived at Ho May Park on June 28, 2015 for a weekend outing. In the afternoon … [Read more...] about Go-kart accident victim wins $3,500 lawsuit against track operator in Vietnam
13-year-old Vietnamese wins U.S. science award
Nguyen Hoang Ly Na from Liberty Bell Middle School in Tennessee has recently been awarded a prize at the Genes in Space Science Contests for young students in the U.S. Launched in 2015 as a collaboration between American airplane manufacture Boeing and DNA research company miniPCR, Genes in Space aims to inspire young minds to solve real-world problems in biological and physical sciences. The contest invites students in grades 7 through 12 to design DNA experiments that address challenges in space exploration. The winning experiment is sent to space. This year the contest received 375 submissions from nearly 850 students in grades 7 to 12 from across the U.S. The top prize is expected to be announced in July. “Huge interest for science and human anatomy” 13-year-old Nguyen Hoang Ly Na was announced on May 16 as a recipient of the contest’s Junior Scientist … [Read more...] about 13-year-old Vietnamese wins U.S. science award