HA NOI — A stamp set entitled Viet Nam in the ASEAN Community was unveiled on Wednesday at the National Convention Centre in Ha Noi to commemorate the ASEAN Summit being hosted in Viet Nam.
Artist Nguyen Du's designs beat out 22 other entrants to be chosen for the stamps, which feature the national flags of the ten ASEAN member states arranged in the shape of a flying dragon.
The image reflected the stability and prosperity of ASEAN due to the sound policies applied during Viet Nam's ASEAN presidency in 2010, Du said.
The stamp set was offset printed on gummed standard paper by the Postal Stamps Printing Co in HCM City.
Award winning French pianist to play in Ha Noi
HA NOI — French pianist Jean Gabriel Ferlan will perform pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Faure and Franck next Tuesday at the French Cultural Centre in Ha Noi. Ferlan has won prizes at international piano festivals in Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain and France.
HIV/AIDS exhibition to open in capital
HA NOI — An exhibition called HIV/AIDS in Viet Nam: 20 Years of Changes and Challenges will be held at the Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi on November 22 to mark HIV/AIDS prevention month (November 10-December 10).
The event will be jointly organised by the museum, the Centre for Community Health Research and Development (CCRD), the Ford Foundation and Columbia University in New York.
According to the CCRD, the event will spotlight the HIV/AIDS problem in Viet Nam, past and present, with the recollections and experiences of HIV/AIDS victims as well as the difficulties faced by health staff, policy makers and researchers.
Since the first case of HIV was discovered in the country in 1990, the virus has quickly spread on a national scale and affected many aspects of Vietnamese society, it said.
It is just one of 10 events being held across the country to mark the 20th year of Viet Nam's HIV prevention campaign. — VNS