A translation contest for students in southern Vietnam has wrapped up in Ho Chi Minh City, with the host university taking home the top prize and two other pedagogical schools finishing in second and third places. Students on the BMF team from the Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature (EF) at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, which is under the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, were named the winners of the EFuture Translators’ Contest 2015 during the grand final on its campus on Saturday, the organizers said in a press release on Sunday. UP from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education won the second prize while Mockingjays from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education claimed the third. Prize money worth VND130 million (US$5,900), including scholarships, and certificates of accomplishment were presented to the three winning teams last night. Organized by the EF, the EFuture Translators’ Contest 2015 … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City host university wins student translation contest
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Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City remember Holocaust victims
NDO/VNA – A series of activities began in Hanoi on January 27 in honour of the International Holocaust Memorial Day, marking the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschmitz-Birkenau in Poland. Addressing the ceremony, United Nations Resident Coordinator Pratibha Mehta said the UN adopted a resolution in 2005 to designate January 27 as the International Holocaust Memorial Day in memory of the Jews who lost their lives to anti-Semitic violence. Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam Eilon Shahar said remembering Holocaust victims has become an annual event at the Israeli embassy in Vietnam. She expressed her hope that Vietnam sympathise with Holocaust victims and proactively work to prevent any future instances of genocide. Commemorative activities will take place at the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogy University. … [Read more...] about Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City remember Holocaust victims
Japanese film festival to open in Ho Chi Minh City
PANO - A Japanese Film Festival will be held from November 13th to 18th at BHD Cinema in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, announced the Japanese Consul General in the city and the Department of Japanese Culture and Japan Image Council, at a press conference on November 5th. Thirty-five films, including 11 long and 24 short ones, highlighting Japan's history and life of Japanese people, will be screened during the festival. Besides, Japan's cartoon producers and directors will have an exchange on techniques for cartoon filmmaking with students of Japanese faculty from Ho Chi Minh University of Pedagogy. Nakano Eriko, head of the Cultural and Information Section of the Japanese Consulate General, held that the festival aimed to introduce special movies to the Vietnamese, and promote exchanges between Vietnamese youths and Japanese movie specialists. Translated by Trung Thanh … [Read more...] about Japanese film festival to open in Ho Chi Minh City
Extra classes at preschool burden parents, kids in Ho Chi Minh City
Parents of preschool students in Ho Chi Minh City are feeling 'dizzy' because their kids must attend numerous extra-curricular classes, also called 'talent classes' in some schools, featuring a number of subjects such as painting, music, and even martial arts. "Schools have opened many extra-curricular classes while many preschool children can't even pronounce well," one parent complained. "My kid has been in kindergarten for around one month," she added. "He has not even gotten acquainted with the main schedule and still does not want to go to school, so how can he attend any extra-curricular classes?" Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper correspondents have investigated and recorded the fact that most preschools in the city have extra-curricular or 'talent classes' that cost even more than the main courses. "Last year I sent my kid to three extra-curricular classes including organ, painting and English," T., whose child studies at a famous preschool in Phu Nhuan District, said. … [Read more...] about Extra classes at preschool burden parents, kids in Ho Chi Minh City
Some Universities and Colleges to Be Moved out of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
The Ministry of Education and Training has sent a document to the People's Committees of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, government ministries, committees, agencies and associations asking them to provide information to help draw up a plan for moving several universities and colleges out of those two big cities. Accordingly, government agencies need to collect information about the land footprint of universities and colleges as of October, 2008, statistics on the number students, lecturers and professors, and the demand for land use by 2020, and after 2025. The Ministry of Education and Training also asked government ministries, committees and agencies to offer suggestions on what criteria should be used for determining which universities and colleges should be moved out of the inner cities of Hanoi and HCMC. As a result, a list will be drawn up of universities and colleges that will have to move, and one for those that will not have to move. Earlier, in October, 2008, the Prime Minister … [Read more...] about Some Universities and Colleges to Be Moved out of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City