Writer Nguyen Dieu Linh has released her latest book entitled Thi Thanh
Ky (Chronicles of a City Dweller) with a Dutch version of her short
stories collection.
More than 240 frisbee players from across Asia Pacific, Europe and North
America took part in HCM City''s first frisbee tournament last weekend,
held at RMIT Vietnam''s Saigon South campus.
The central city has offered to host the 2015-16 Clipper Race, a yacht
sailing race comprised of amateur competitors, the city''s secretariat
confirmed yesterday.
The fifth Asia-Pacific Bonsai Festival kicked off yesterday at Rin Rin
Park, a Japanese cultural site, in HCM City featuring 500 bonsai from 17
countries and territories.
Asia Pacific Onboard Travel today will present a
certificate recognising Da Nang for making the world''s longest spring
roll. More than 600 people worked together to make the spring roll in
June last year on the beach at Hyatt Regency Hotel. It took...
Viet Nam will once again honour the French language
through a film festival and concerts to celebrate International
Francophone Day, which falls this Friday.
Vietnamese literature will be introduced to international delegates as a
symbol of the people''s desire for freedom, happiness and independence,
poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the Viet Nam Writers'' Association, said.
Administrative documents signed by the Nguyen kings (1802-1945) have
received the certificate of the Asia-Pacific Region''s Memory of the
World Programme.
