Social News 17/7
Folk culture of sea and island area discussed
The Feast and
Commemoration Festival for Hoang Sa (Paracel Islands) Soldiers is held
annually in the central province of Quang Ngai.
As many as 38 scientists throughout the country
analysed issues concerning the ecology, history and folk culture of people
living in the coastal region and on islands - to promote sea tourism and to
confirm Việt Nam’s sovereignty over its territory and waters - at a workshop
held yesterday in the central city of Quảng Ngãi.
Nguyễn Đăng Vũ, director of local Department for Culture,
Sports and Tourism, said that for the past 10 years the province has been one
of the leading localities in the country in developing sea and island
economics and preserving sea folk culture heritage - including hosting the
“Lễ Khao Lề Thế Lính Hoàng Sa” (Feast and Commemoration Festival for Hoàng Sa
Soldiers) every third lunar month.
The province has also hosted various national-level
workshops on sea and islands, which shows local authorities’ efforts in
preserving and developing local sea and islands culture, he said.
Researchers addressing the workshop focused on
highlighting local residents’ working processes for thousands of years, which
created a diverse folk culture heritage. Local worship and art have much in
common with other localities in the central region and the whole country.
Quảng Ngãi also has special characteristic folk legends, folk songs and
customs.
Đặng Ngọc Dũng, vice chairman of Quảng Ngãi People’s
Community, noted that generations of local people have fished, grown sea
products and traded with foreigners for thousands of years.
During the workshop yesterday, Việt Nam Folk Literature
and Arts awarded the title of "Folk Artist" to four locals.
Short film contest focuses on responsible drinking
The Uống Có Trách Nhiệm (7 Film Fest – Responsible
Drinking) contest is accepting films from Vietnamese aged 18 and over in the
categories of directing and screenplay writing.
The National Committee for Traffic Safety organised the
contest to raise awareness about drunk driving. It aims to discover talented
filmmakers for the film industry.
In August, the organiser will announce the seven best
directors and seven best screenwriters, who will be paired into seven groups
of two consisting of a director and screenwriter.
They will learn about filmmaking from talented
directors, and then make their own short films about responsible drinking.
All of the films will be screened for the public at
local cinemas, including CGV, Galaxy and BHD, and on social networks like
YouTube, in September.
The organiser will choose the winner based on 40 per
cent of audience votes and 60 per cent of votes of the judges.
The awards ceremony will be held in late October in HCM
City.
The contest’s production manager is a
Vietnamese–American director Charlie Nguyễn, who is popular among Vietnamese
audiences for his action and comedy films, such as Dòng Máu Anh Hùng (The
Rebel), Để Mai Tính (Fool for Love), and Cưới Ngay Kẻo Lỡ (Love Puzzle), and
a newly released rock movie Fan Cuồng (Fanatic).
The 7 Film Fest was first held last year, attracting
125 filmmakers who submitted 80 screenplays and 30 films.
Participants can register by July 30 at
www.7filmfest.com and submit works at info@7filmfest.com or at the office at
10B Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street in District 1.
VN lawyer sells her paintings to raise money for
charity
Amanda Huỳnh, a Vietnamese lawyer working in France,
sold three of her 40 paintings on Thursday for US$9,000, half of which will
be contributed to poor students through her Amanda Foundation.
The female lawyer, writer and painter also introduced
her book Lam, which features several of her stories together with her
paintings, in an exhibition organised in HCM City.
The work features stories about her life in France.
Amanda Huỳnh was born in Nha Trang and graduated from
the HCM City University of Law in 2005.
One year after, she studied at the Capitole I
University in Toulouse and later received her Ph.D degree in economic law in
2010 at the same school. She became a lawyer in 2011.
With her love for art, she has produced 1,000 works of
various types and materials.
In 2013, she was named Young Talent of Art 3F in
Europe. Her artworks are displayed in several exhibitions and galleries in
France and Dubai. —
Tele-medicine helps promote remote health-care
assistance
The health department in northern Quang Ninh Province
has deployed a tele-health network extending critical healthcare services to
rural and remote communities and increase remote connections between doctors
and patients.
With the aid of Polycom video collaboration technology,
including room-based and mobile solutions, the province's Department of
Health provides consultations and follow-up care for patients hundreds of
kilometres away, and improved training and collaboration for doctors in remote
areas.
Since introducing the tele-health network, 24 hospitals
and community health-care centres across the province now have real-time,
face-to-face connectivity with doctors and medical staff, serving larger
numbers of patients and ensuring ongoing training for staff productively.
"The tele-health network has completely changed
our levels of service to communities in the province and reduced the workload
pressures on our clinical staff," Vu Xuan Dien, director of the
Department of Health, said.
"As an example, for diagnosis of more difficult
medical cases, patients had to be transferred across large distances from
regional hospitals to either the Bach Mai or Viet Duc central hospitals. What
tele-health has done is provided us with that vital link to rapidly
administer patient care and diagnose early symptoms," he said.
He added that where health directives and advisories
had to be issued immediately, about 300 employees can now dial into a video
conference so knowledge is rapidly transferred. This is especially crucial in
managing natural disasters such as floods as well as outbreak of diseases.
Information, procedures and protocols can be shared and communicated more
efficiently and effectively to ensure the right medical support is provided
to the affected areas.
In addition, the leadership team no longer has to
travel long distances to join important meetings, saving at least 50 per cent
on costs and three to four hours per meeting.
Video collaboration has also reduced the burden on
central hospitals in treating referral and emergency patients. By linking
medical experts in Viet Nam and overseas through video collaboration, and
improving coordination among central, provincial and district hospitals,
remote populations have access to specialist medical services like never
before.
"In 2015, we held 32 online conference calls
involving 7,000 staff in 19 meetings for work-in progress updates and
guidelines on the management of outbreak control and prevention. That is
about 300 people per meeting on average, and 13 online professional training
sessions for over 1,000 staff," he said.
"In addition, operating rooms in 10 hospitals have
also served for remote consultation, surgery and medical examination, and
treatment to our health-care centres. The Quang Ninh Department of
Health is proud to have embarked on this tele-health program in Viet Nam to
continue serving our communities and employees better," he said.
Da Nang keen to become major fishing centre
The central city of Da Nang will be developed as one of
the six fishing centres across the country, as part of the Master plan on
fisheries development to 2020 with a vision towards 2030.
The move aims to serve the logistical demands of the
city as well as the regional provinces, contributing to the marine economic
development of the central region.
According to Nguyen Do Tam, Deputy Director of the
municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the centre will
include fishing ports and well-equipped logistics facilities.
They are expected to create impetuses for the
restructure and development of the fishery sector, especially the off-shore
fishing operation, in a modern way, thus raising the values of farmed and
fished fish in the city as well as nationwide, Tam said.
The sector will continue implementing the Government
and local policies and mechanisms to provide support to fishermen in building
well-equipped fishing vessels with a capacity of at least 400 CV, thus
enhancing the efficiency of offshore fishing and product quality and value.
Investment will be made to upgrade the Quang Tho
fishing port to a modern and effective fishery centre, with the focus on
environment protection and food safety.
Some 20 billion VND (900,000 USD) will be allocated to
help fishermen replace their small, near-coast fishing boats with
offshore-fishing vessels.
Vice Chairman of the Son Tra district People’s
Committee Nguyen Thanh Nam highlighted the contribution of fisheries, saying
that the sector has helped the district lead the city in socio-economic
development.
Hanoi invests $7.2 million to improve population
quality
More than 160 billion VND (7.2 million USD) will be
invested in a project to improve population quality between 2016 and 2020 in
the city.
The project, which was approved by the People’s
Committee, will be carried out across 30 districts and 584 communes and towns
of the city in an attempt to help at least 80 percent of local expectant
women receive prenatal screenings.
Eighty-five percent of infants will be provided newborn
screenings to find defects and 50 percent of newborns will also receive
screenings for detecting innate defects related to heart disease. The project
will also focus on screening, early detection and intervention of birth
defects and disorders of transformation or genetic abnormalities during
pregnancy and after birth in order to reduce birth defects and improve the
city’s population quality.
Under the project, 90 percent of local pregnant women
would have access to professional advice on the issue. The fund would be used
to raise public awareness of the importance of prenatal and newborn
screenings and further training for medical officials and staff.
Local hospitals and health centres will be provided
more equipment to support pre-birth screening, newborn and heart defects.
It will also provide hearing screenings for babies aged
0-60 months and Thalassemia (a blood disorder) tests for primary and
secondary school students in disadvantaged districts.
Hanoi accelerates works on wastewater treatment plants
Hanoi is speeding up the construction of the Cau Nga
wastewater treatment plant in Hoai Duc district, which will treat wastewater
discharged from the craft villages in the communes of Duong Lieu, Cat Que and
Minh Khai.
Part of the “Master Plan for Environmental Protection
of Nhue - Day River Basin by 2020” , the plant is a model of collaboration
mechanism between the central government and localities in urban
environmental pollution treatment.
Works on the plant began in November 2015 in an area of
9,397 square metres. Currently, the project is on an adjustment phase to
raise its capacity from 13,500 cubic metres per day to 20,000 cubic metres
per day.
The plant is expected to be operating on the occasion
of the city’s Liberation Day (October 10), according to representatives from
the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Aside from the Cau Nga project, Hoai Duc district is
implementing two other waste water plants, namely Son Dong with capacity of
8,000 cubic metres per day and Van Canh with capacity of 4,000 cubic metres
per day.
Hanoi has focused on investing in waste water and solid
waste treatment plants in the suburban areas. Currently, all of facilities
lying on the Nhue - Day River Basin are certified to completely treat
environmental pollution.
The city strives to synchronically construct separate
rain water drainage and waste water systems by 2020.
Family doctor model to reach more cities, provinces
The Ministry of Health plans to expand the family
doctor model to 80 per cent of provinces and cities nationwide by 2020,
participants heard at an online conference yesterday.
"Priority will be given to establishing the family
doctor model at the grass-roots level, including in commune health clinics
offering family medicine, private family-doctor clinics and family-doctor
clinics operating under State-owned general hospitals," Health Minister
Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said at the event.
“The model will provide continuous basic healthcare
services to families, individuals and the community in an effort to improve
the quality of primary healthcare and to reduce hospital congestion,” Tiến
said.
She said the model had faced several challenges due to
a shortage of funding sources and human resources specialised in family
medicine. There are still only a few private family-doctor clinics available
as the model has not attracted investment from the private sector.
Many people still do not know much about the model and
the role of a family doctor in providing primary healthcare for the
community.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam
said the health sector should strengthen the capacity of primary healthcare,
including health exams, treatment, consultations and preventive medicine, at
health clinics in mountainous, remote, border and island areas.
Đam also asked the health ministry to develop the
healthcare system at the grass-roots level along with the family doctor model
and propose financial resources and priorities for the expansion of the
country’s grass-roots healthcare system.
At the event, participants agreed that the family
doctor model should be integrated with the country’s 14,000 commune health
clinic system.
The health sector suggested that provinces and cities
should pay more attention and call for further investment in expanding the
family doctor model based on their existing commune health clinic system.
Provincial health departments have been requested to
study the status of commune health clinics and local demand to develop a
strategy for expanding the model in their localities.
Medical universities have also been asked to increase
the number of training courses offered on family-doctor medicine. The
community should have greater awareness of the family doctor model and its
benefits to encourage people to use the services of family doctors.
Statistics from the health ministry showed that 336
family-doctor clinics, including six private clinics, have been established
in six provinces and cities nation-wide by June 2016. They provide basic
healthcare services, including services covered by the health insurance fund.
Three years after rolling out the family doctor plan,
family-doctor clinics have shown remarkable results in providing services
related to health exams and treatment, rehabilitation and patient management
for people and families in the community.
Some clinics, such as the Thành Công Private Clinic and
the Family Doctor Clinic at the District 2 Hospital in HCM City, have
received positive feedback from patients and health managers in the
application of e-medical records and clinic management software and the
regular provision of online consultations.
Quang Nam promotes sustainable exploitation of
terrestrial crabs
Terrestrial crabs (Gecarciudea Lalandii) on Cham
Island, in central Quang Nam province has been saved from the brink of extinction
thanks to the efforts by a group in charge of protecting and managing crab
exploitation since 2013.
The 36-member group works under the supervision of
relevant authorities. Members of the group are allowed to catch some 50 crabs
with large shells measuring 7 centimetres or more every month. The crabs are
then labeled with a specific stamp before they are sold to the customers.
Strict punishment will be handed out to any restaurant consuming crabs
without the stamp.
From the outset of this year, roughly 3,000 terrestrial
crabs with quality stamps have been sold in the market.
Harvest time for the crustaceans takes place from the
first month to the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Collection during
their breeding season is forbidden.
Previously, local fishermen could catch up to tens of
kilogrammes of terrestrial crabs a night, however, each kilogram was selling
at a low price, according to Tran Cong, head of the group.
Tourism development on the island coupled with
increasing demand for terrestrial crab have driven up its price, he noted,
adding that each kilogram is now sold for 1 million VND 44.8 USD)-1.8 million
VND (80.7 USD).
In the past, thanks to the steady income brought about
by the crabs, crab-catching was once prolific among local residents,
resulting in a drastic fall in the crab population.
Le Vinh Thuan, deputy director of the Management Board
of Cham Island’s Marine Protected Area, said that the group has made great
contributions to protecting the terrestrial crabs, helping maintain biodiversity
in Cham Island’s world biosphere reserve.
Terrestrial crabs are dark in colour and have long legs
and short pincers. The crustacean is nocturnal and spends most of the day
hiding in burrows, which are 400 metres above sea level.
Hà Nội to crack down on dyke violations
The Hà Nội People’s Committee has instructed the city’s
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to deal with dyke violations
strictly.
The order followed a Water Resource Directorate (WRD)
report which cited widespread dyke violations in the capital city.
There were 506 such violations since the beginning of
last year. Only 45 of those cases have been resolved.
Most of the dyke violations involved the construction
of houses and workshops, illegal sand exploitation and storage of building
materials, and overloaded vehicles travelling on dykes.
The violations occurred primarily on the Hồng and Đáy
Rivers in the Tây Hồ, Long Biên, Quốc Oai and Ứng Hòa Districts.
In the latest incident, the authorities of Long Biên
District asked Nắng Sông Hồng Joint Stock Company to stop its activities on
the banks of the Red River for violating the city’s flood irrigation corridor
rules.
The company was also ordered to demolish all illegal
construction and had to pay an administrative fine levied by the city’s dyke
management agency in 2012. However, they ignored the 2012 warning and turned
the leased land into a recreation and cuisine centre, Đời sống & Pháp
luật (Life& Law) newspaper reported.
Punishment currently isn’t strict enough to prevent dyke
violations from continuing, according to the Water Resource Directorate.
The Directorate called on relevant agencies and local
authorities to take drastic measures to improve the situation because
violations reduce dyke effectiveness during the rainy season.
Dong Nai seeks regional traffic link development
The southern province of Dong Nai has proposed the
Government, the Ministry of Transport and other relevant bodies develop
numerous regional transport links.
Vice Chairman of the Dong Nai People’s Committee Tran
Van Vinh highlighted the geographic position of the province as a gateway to
Ho Chi Minh City and the southern economic hub, saying that the proposals aim
to serve and ensure safety in transportation of goods and passengers.
The province proposes that the Government extends the
Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien metro line in Ho Chi Minh City by 4.7 km to the Vung
Tau crossroads in Bien Hoa City, that has a population of over 1 million
people and houses industrial zones, according to Vinh.
The extension will facilitate local residents’ daily
travel between Bien Hoa and Ho Chi Minh City, thus reducing traffic jams at
the gateway to Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh said.
In a recent working session with Deputy Prime Minister
Trinh Dinh Dung, the province proposed the Government upgrade the section of
National Road 1 through Dong Nai to four lanes.
It called for investment to build a 6.2km bypass of the
National Road 1 section through Long Khanh commune.
The locality also called on the Government to accelerate
the implementation of the projects connecting to Long Thanh international
airport.
They include Dau Giay – Phan Thiet highway, Bien Hoa –
Vung Tau highway, Ho Chi Minh City belt road 3 section and the Thu Thiem –
Long Thanh airport urban railway.
Mekong Delta region’s master plan to be reviewed
A master plan and development scenarios for the Mekong
Delta region will be reviewed to suit the integration trend and adapt to
climate change, stated Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue during a
conference on July 12, as part of the ongoing 9th Mekong Delta Economic
Development Forum (MDEC) in Hau Giang province.
The Deputy PM, who is also head of the Steering
Committee for the Southwestern Region, said that the move aims to create a
closer regional connection in socio-economic infrastructure and response to
climate change.
He asked sectors and scientists to seek sustainable
growth mechanisms for the Mekong Delta region, with practical, accurate and
specific studies on their impacts on a number of farm products in the region
amidst integration and climate change conditions.
According to Nguyen Quoc Viet, deputy head of the
committee, Vietnam’s international integration creates both opportunities and
challenges to the region.
Along with climate change, sea level rise, saltwater
intrusion and a number of emerging problems have pressured the region during
its integration, he held.
He emphasised the need for serious and comprehensive
assessment of the region’s capacity in integrating, so as to design active
plans that can grasp chances and overcome challenges to boost rapid and
sustainable growth.
To this end, the region should deal with a series of
problems, including the restructuring of agriculture towards modernisation
and large-scale production by applying advanced technology to raise
productivity, quality and competitiveness.
Lu Van Hung, Chairman of the Hau Giang People’s
Committee, expressed his hope that more favourable conditions will be created
to help investors study investment policies and key projects of regional
localities.
The conference, themed: “Mekong Delta – Active
Integration and Sustainable Development,” is a chance for foreign and
domestic businesses to meet and set up business partnerships. It also gives
opportunities to management officials, scientists and investors to discuss
measures to remove obstacles for the region’s development and integration.
The Mekong Delta comprises Can Tho city and 12
provinces – Long An, Dong Thap, Tien Giang, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre, An
Giang, Hau Giang, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau and Kien Giang.
HCM City to keep overloaded vehicles off 3 bridges
The HCM City Department of Transport on Monday set up
weighstations at three bridges to deter overloaded vehicles from crossing
them.
Situated on either side of Giồng Ông Tố and Kỳ Hà 1
bridges in District 2 and Ông Lớn Bridge in District 7, they work
round-the-clock, automatically detecting overloaded vehicles and transmitting
the data to computers.
Overloaded trucks will be stopped for weighing again
and issued with fines.
An official at the Transport Inspection Team No.6
responsible for Ông Lớn Bridge said the weighstation would help effectively
monitor overloaded vehicles.
Bạc Liêu set to restructure fisheries sector
The Bạc Liêu Province People’s Committee has approved a
plan to restructure the province’s fisheries sector, aiming to increase the
average annual income in the fisheries sector to VNĐ92.3 million (US$4,100)
per person by 2020, up 1.4 times against last year.
Black-tiger shrimp, white-legged shrimp and sea crabs
are the province’s key aquatic species.
The province plans to breed blue-legged spawn, dragon
fish, marble goby, clams, oysters and other aquatic species.
Models of farming aquatic species meeting global and
Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) standards will be expanded.
Under the plan, the Mekong Delta province will have an
annual aquaculture output of 370,000 tonnes, including 147,000 tonnes of shrimp
by 2020.
The area devoted to breeding brackish-water shrimp will
increase from 127,450 ha last year to more than 131,750 by 2020.
The plan also targets to increase the number of fishing
boats from 1,264 last year to 1,450 fishing boats, including 650 off-shore
fishing boats, by 2020.
Bạc Liêu will gradually reduce catching fish near shore
and develop off-shore fishing, targeting a catch of 120,000 tonnes of fish
and other aquatic species by 2020.
The province plans to develop fishing logistics
services on sea and at fishing ports, and use advanced techniques in fishing
and storage in order to reduce post-harvest losses in fishing from the
current 20 per cent to 10 per cent by 2020.
Storm shelters, including Cái Cùng, Nhà Mát and Gành
Hào storm shelters, will be built for fishing boats.
The plan will cost more than VNĐ6.4 trillion (US$290
million) from the Government budget, provincial budget and other sources.
Bạc Liêu, one of the country’s largest shrimp
producers, produces shrimp of high quality.
Besides the industrial shrimp farming model, the
province has other shrimp farming models, including intensive and
semi-intensive shrimp farming, organic shrimp farming in submerged forest
areas, and a model of rotating rice-shrimp and other aquatic species on the
same field.
The province has about 30,500 ha of rice-shrimp
rotating area, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
The model of rotating shrimp-rice cultivation on the
same field in Bạc Liêu has helped farmers have stable incomes and improved environmental
protection.
Many farmers in Hồng Dân District, for instance, said
they had not suffered losses after applying the model of rotating shrimp-rice
cultivation.
Farmer Trần Văn Hạnh in Hồng Dân District said his
family’s income was stable and the lives of his family had improved since he
rotated one rice crop and two shrimp crops a year.
“This model has helped improve shrimp cultivation.
Shrimp rarely have disease and grow rapidly,” he said.
Lương Ngọc Lân, director of the province’s Department
of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), said Bạc Liêu would focus on
developing aquaculture and aim to turn the province into the country’s
capital for industrial shrimp farming.
Bạc Liêu will also build roads, water supply, sewage
and power lines for 12,000 ha of intensive and semi-intensive shrimp farming
areas.
To attract investors, infrastructure will also be built
in shrimp-fry producing areas.
Bạc Liêu plans to breed more than 120,000ha of shrimp
this year.
To meet this year’s target, the DARD has told farmers
to focus on releasing shrimp fry into ponds for breeding this month.
Dương Thành Trung, chairman of the province’s People’s
Committee, has told DARD to urgently prepare conditions for clean aquaculture
models and inspect shrimp fry quality, veterinary medicine and animal foods.
The DARD also was asked to draft criteria for farms
that produce aquatic species fries.
Bạc Liêu fishermen have caught more than 56,720 tonnes
of fish and other aquatic species this year, up 103 per cent against the same
period last year.
Trần Văn Bửu, owner of a fishing boat in Đông Hải
District’s Gành Hào Town, said there were fewer rough seas than in previous
years, so fishing was good.
“If diesel oil prices remain stable, fishermen will
have profits,” he said.
Most fishing boat owners in Bạc Liêu borrow money from
fish traders to buy diesel oil and ice and pay hired fishermen for their
fishing trips.
Mai Thành Học, a fishing boat owner in Gành Hào Town,
said the cost for fishing trips was high so fishing boat owners must borrow
loans.
In addition, fishermen can only sell their catch to
traders and cannot sell directly to seafood processors.
Nguyễn Trường Hận, head of the Đông Hải District
Agriculture and Rural Development Bureau, said: “This year, there is
favourable weather, declining fuel prices and stable seafood prices, so
fishermen have had profits.”
He said that Đông Hải was seeking more investment for
infrastructure to develop fishing and build seafood processing plants.
New decree to regulate exhibition management
A draft decree by the Department of Exhibition,
Photography, and Fine Arts has proposed new regulations on exhibition management
of cultural activities.
The decree was discussed at a conference on Tuesday in
HCM City, with 50 representatives from the departments of Culture, Sports and
Tourism, and Propaganda and Training from 15 provinces and cities, including
HCM City, Đà Nẵng, Cần Thơ, and Lâm Đồng.
Vi Kiến Thành, head of the Department of Exhibition,
Photography and Fine Arts, said the Prime Minister was expected to approve
the decree in October.
The decree focuses on exhibiting items and works
related to culture, arts, tourism and sports in Việt Nam and abroad.
It includes regulations on the government’s role in
exhibition management, licensing for organising exhibitions inside and
outside the country, and themes of exhibitions.
It proposes that provincial People’s Committees be in
charge of exhibition management in localities, and give licences for
exhibition programmes.
Participants at the conference pointed out that
exhibitions involving foreign factors need the approval of People’s
Committees.
Võ Văn Kiệt, a representative of the Tây Ninh
Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: “The People’s
Committees have many works and papers to complete, so issuing licenses should
be given to the departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism.”
“If there was an exhibition related to foreign
individuals or oganisations, the department would submit papers to the
People’s Committee for approval,” he added.
“The opinions collected from experts and the public
would be considered before the department makes final revisions on the draft
plan and submits it to the Prime Minister,” said Thành from the Department of
Exhibition, Photography and Fine Arts.
“Exhibitions are an effective way to promote Vietnamese
culture, arts, sports and tourism to local people and foreigners,” he said,
adding that the number of exhibitions in the country had increased year by
year.
According to the Department of Exhibition, Photography
and Fine Art’s statistics, there were 499 exhibitions held in Việt Nam in
2013, 589 in 2014 and 594 in 2015.
Free wedding photos, hair styling offered for people
with disabilities
Brides and grooms are typically not shy about posing
for their wedding photos, as they know the memories can last a lifetime.
But for people with disabilities, appearing before the
camera can be somewhat daunting.
Last year, Phùng Tuấn Dũng, an alumnus of the HCM City
University of Law, set up a five-member team of photographers to offer free
wedding photos for the disabled.
Several part-time members also do free makeup and
hairstyling for the couples.
While many soon-to-be married couples celebrate at
luxury hotels and restaurants, Dũng’s team often brings bread, cake and tea
to his photo shoots at less glamorous sites.
At least 100 wedding gowns and áo dài (traditional
female tunic and trousers) as well as two wedding bouquets for long-term use
have been donated to the team.
“I’ve even lent my own business suit to the grooms,”
Dũng said, adding that the couples are free to arrange their time and choose
a photo shoot venue. “I ask for photos of the couples in advance so I can
prepare the styling, select wedding dresses, and think about the best shot
angles.”
Dũng’s team often visits a vocational school for the
disabled to offer free photo services.
“We initially planned to have only a few photos of our
wedding, but we didn’t expect to have such a big, beautiful wedding album,”
one student said.
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