Viet Nam News Đặng Kim Phượng has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in training and coaching teams, helping employees to improve their learning, working and soft skills. She is also a popular guest speaker and trainer at career orientation workshops, love-relationship counselling seminars and law-of-attraction trainings. Currently, she focuses on her work as the founder and director of Master Phuong Company, which trades fengshui stones and healing crystals. Phượng is a well-known public speaker, trainer and life coach who inspires and motivates Vietnamese women worldwide. Inner Sanctum: How did you become an inspirational speaker worldwide? I think it is destiny. Everything happens in life because of predestined affinity. I graduated from York St John University (the UK) and the Glion Institute of Higher Education (Switzerland). I have 10 years’ experience working in the field of hospitality at companies at home and abroad. … [Read more...] about Speaker inspires and motivates Vietnamese women worldwide
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A baby dies, survives and reunites with long-lost Vietnamese mother
Doctors said there was no hope. The baby would die. The broken-hearted father signed the cremation papers. He could not take her to their native place for burial because the premature baby’s mother, his wife, was still in the hospital and had to be tended to. Later, the sad parents went to the hospital to collect the ashes, but could not. They returned home, accepting their fate. But... In a story that twists at every turn with ifs and buts, the baby did not die. No chance “When I was six months pregnant, doctors at the district hospital said my baby had congenital hydrocephalus (a condition in which cerebrospinal fluid accumulates within the brain and increases pressure inside the skull). They advised me to give her up. “Even if she was born, she would not survive (for long), they noted,” said Khong Thi Thu Trang, sitting in her small house in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre. Trang and her husband did not lose hope immediately. They went to the Tu Du … [Read more...] about A baby dies, survives and reunites with long-lost Vietnamese mother
Brothers come home proud
Viet Nam News Brothers Quốc Cơ and Quốc Nghiệp wanted to enter the most famous circus competition. So they went in Britain’s Got Talent. Quốc Cơ held Quốc Nghiệp on his head and then walked. It was very risky but they pulled it off and came fifth in the competition. By Mỹ Phương & Phương Mai Inner Sanctum: Why did you decide to compete in Britain’s Got Talent 2018? Quốc Cơ: After breaking the world record for the “most consecutive stairs climbed while balancing a person on the head” in Girona, Spain in 2016, we received invitations from many international talent competitions. But we turned them down. The organisers were surprised and didn’t know why we had turned down such programmes. Quốc Nghiệp: We wanted to choose the most famous competition. We didn’t expect a victory, but just wanted to promote the Vietnamese circus and people to … [Read more...] about Brothers come home proud
Dammed, doomed: the Mekong Delta story
I have the habit of talking to old people every time I do research on the climate and the environment. To me, they are living records of what really happened, having directly experienced the natural disasters that have swept through our lands. After the 2016 drought, I did a study on the people of the Mekong Delta and their adaptability to climate change. In every province and city I went, Ben Tre, Ca Mau, Can Tho, Tien Giang and Tra Vinh, the elders shared the same worries, without exception. Something bad is coming, and it’s imminent. The Mekong Delta has always been blessed by Mother Nature. Lush plantations, abundant fish and shrimp are just some of the few things the Delta gives us. It is Mother Nature herself who breathed life into the people here. They are vivacious and carefree, unchained and untamed, just like the Delta itself. Not anymore. Such blessings are now relics of a distant past, showing themselves only in the people’s verses of songs and lines of poetry. … [Read more...] about Dammed, doomed: the Mekong Delta story
One melody in memory of father
Viet Nam News by Lê Hoài Nam To meet Diễm, his ex-wife, Đổng went to a refreshment stall on the side of a street. A few minutes later, she turned up in a black Camry. Getting out, at first glance she seemed greatly displeased with his casual clothes. “You’ve come by bus, haven’t you?” she asked him in a contemptuous voice. “Pawned your motorbike?” she went on. Blushing with shame he replied, “I needed the money to wire a building for lighting and high-tech gadgets. I’ll get it back soon.” “Hmm, at the age of fifty, with a degree in electrical engineering, you should be ashamed of yourself for having pawned your terrible motorbike,” she mocked him. “It’s not a big deal, I’ll be sorted soon.” “Really? What did you want to see me for then? Not for money, eh?” “Certainly not! Have I ever borrowed anything from you?” … [Read more...] about One melody in memory of father