New bilingual book to introduce Vietnam to the world The Saigon Times Daily The Agency of Foreign Information Service under the Ministry of Information and Communications has joined hands with the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnam Pictorial and The Gioi Publishing House to release “Vietnam Yearbook 2016” book. The 180-page book, 60 cm by 20 cm, is about the history of Vietnam, unique cultural traits of different regions and popular places of interest and the dynamic and friendly Vietnamese people. It also contains images of people, events, festivals and landscapes. Foreigners, investors, tourists and people interested in discovering the country can find the book useful and interesting. Vietnam Yearbook 2016 consists of seven chapters and one appendix and has a special section about human rights and social welfare in Vietnam. According to Le Nghiem, head of the Agency of Foreign Information Service, said images of Vietnam as a peaceful and stable country … [Read more...] about New bilingual book to introduce Vietnam to the world
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Local artist brings zither sounds of Vietnam to the world
Local artist brings zither sounds of Vietnam to the world Kieu Giang Vietnamese zither artist Tri Nguyen, who was named at the Global Music Awards in 2015 for his debut album of "Consonnances", will introduce his latest album Beyond Borders at a concert which will take place next Monday at Idecaf in HCMC's District 1. "Consonnances" was a winner of the Global Music Awards Gold Medal for World Music, a Gold Medal Winner of the Akademia Award for World Music, Voix des Arts music blog CD of the Month and a Top Ten Best Album on the Far Side Music website. Tri Nguyen is a composer/zither artist/pianist who has lived in France in 30 years with his Vietnamese nationality. In 2016, he became the first Vietnamese to be in the nomination list of the Grammy awards. The artist said that he was lucky to enjoy two education systems of Eastern and Western cultures to have a good understanding of traditional musical instruments of countries in the world. Tri always has an ambition to bring the … [Read more...] about Local artist brings zither sounds of Vietnam to the world
Vietnam promotes its image to the world
(VOVworld)-The Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO's Secretary General Pham Cao Phong calls for more efforts to introduce the image of Vietnam to the world. Speaking ahead of the 35th founding anniversary of the commission on Friday, Phong said the promotion of Vietnam 's heritages is a priority: " Vietnam will participate in several functional committee of the UNESCO on the protection of intangible heritages. Vietnam has been a member of the intergovernmental committees on biosphere and the protection of intangible heritages. We will mobilize UNESCO support in promoting Vietnam 's image through educational and scientific initiatives." … [Read more...] about Vietnam promotes its image to the world
Person brings Vietnamese traditional music to the world
Prof. Assoc. Nguyen Thuyet Phong is the second Vietnamese to have his name and biography listed in the musician and musical dictionary titled "The New Grove." When Mr. Phong was small, thanks to the tradition of his family, he had a strong attachment to musical instruments and some kinds of music. Walking many areas in the Mekong River Delta to sing, songs were engraved in his memory. In 1974, he went to France to study and graduated with doctoral of traditional musicology from the Sorbonne University. At that time, his biggest dream was that there was no war in Vietnam and people would get better education. He said he believed in glorious the history of the nation and bright intelligence of the Vietnamese race. * Being famous thanks to traditional music In 1984, Prof. Phong went to US to teach Asian music, including Vietnamese music. He said "When I have chance to travel to many countries in the world, approach their traditional music, I always think of doing some things for … [Read more...] about Person brings Vietnamese traditional music to the world
Introducing Vietnam to the world through Esperanto
PANO - Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA), Vjetnama Esperanto-Asocio (VEA) and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Associations organized Vietnamese Day on July 29th in Hanoi, as part of activities of the 97th World Congress of Esperanto (UK 97) from July 29th to August 4th in Hanoi. The Day included many interesting activities to introduce international friends the beauty of Vietnam, its culture and people through Esperanto. Participants had an opportunity to learn more about Ha Long bay, Vietnamese cuisine and special traditional culture features. Addressing the opening ceremony of the Day, Mr. Nguyen Van Loi, Chairman of VEA affirmed that Vietnam is developing strongly and integrating into the world comprehensively and hoped that Esperanto will be friendship bridge to help Vietnam integrate into the world and become an active and developed country. Mr. Vu Xuan Hong, the Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Associations, said that Esperanto is seen as bridge to promote … [Read more...] about Introducing Vietnam to the world through Esperanto