Local residents in Hoi An City are now joining hands to help authorities protect the city’s cultural and historical relics. The team of locals who will report to the Hoi An Relics Preservation and Management Center will be in charge of propagandizing cultural heritage laws and regulations to other residents in the World Heritage city as well as communicating locals’ concerns to municipal authorities. The team has so far gathered 33 members from Minh An, Son Phong and Cam Pho wards. Source: TT … [Read more...] about Hoi An residents join hands to protect relics
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Travel firms join hands to sell tours in flooding season
VietNamNet Bridge – Saigontourist Travel Service Company and Dong Thap Tourist Company have agreed to jointly promote the tour program “Dong Thap – Flooding Season” to local and international tourists. Local tourists travel on a wooden boat during the flooding season in the Mekong Delta. This is the first time travel companies have joined hands to offer this special kind of tour to foreign tourists. The two firms will jointly develop and market tours during the flooding season in Dong Thap Province, beginning in October, as a typical product of the Mekong Delta. Doan Thi Thanh Tra, marketing manager of Saigontourist, said her company began to promote flooding season tours last year. Brochures about this kind of tour have been sent to foreign partners of Saigontourist. This year, the tour operator starts to seek international tourists for flooding season tours. Especially, the river tour from Cambodia to the Mekong Delta provinces, … [Read more...] about Travel firms join hands to sell tours in flooding season
Campaign “Join hands to end violence against woment”
(Cinet)- The campaign “Join hands to end violence against woment” has been organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Women's Union, the Farmers' Union, the United Nations in Viet Nam and other development partners on November 22 to respond to International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. A national study released by the General Statistics Office and the United Nations in 2010 showed that 58 per cent of married women had experienced at least one form of violence, including physical, mental or sexual, at some point in their lives. Further, about 50 per cent did not tell anyone about the violence and 87 per cent did not seek help from public services. The UN study revealed that domestic violence resulted in an overall productivity loss of 1.78 per cent of GDP in 2010. … [Read more...] about Campaign “Join hands to end violence against woment”
Buddhist followers join hands in ensuring social welfare
Ven. Thich Phuoc Ngoc and children at Suoi Nguon Tinh Thuong Orphanage Centre in Vinh Long province (Source: courtesy of Ven. Thich Phuoc Ngoc)Hanoi (VNA) - Hundreds of orphan and homelesschildren call Venerable Thich Phuoc Ngoc ‘father’ and Suoi Nguon Tinh Thuong (springof compassion) Buddhist Orphanage Centre ‘home’, where they are loved, caredfor and provided with nutrition by monks and volunteers.The Suoi Nguon TinhThuong Buddhist Orphanage Centre in Tam Binh district in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Vinh Long is among hundreds of Buddhist establishments which havebeen protecting and assisting disadvantaged people, particularly children,across the nation.Director of the centre, VenerableThich Phuoc Ngoc, 36, who is also Head of Phuoc Quang Pagoda, told a VietnamNews Agency (VNA) correspondent that he founded the centre in 2012 afterreturning home from overseas religious studies, hoping to give a roof to disadvantagedchildren. Ven Thich Phuoc Ngoc and a … [Read more...] about Buddhist followers join hands in ensuring social welfare
GM Viet Nam joins hands with Operation Smile
General Motors Viet Nam’s Chevrolet brand is joining hands with Operation Smile Viet Nam to provide medical checkups and reconstructive surgery to some 50 children in Viet Nam.The surgery, for kids born with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities, is being performed in Ha Noi by medical professionals from the Viet Nam-Cuba Friendship Hospital from November 20 to 24. Chevrolet is also providing transportation, meal allowances and accommodations for patients.This is the fourth time that GM Viet Nam is joining hands with Operation Smile Viet Nam’s mission to bring smiles to more than 200 children with facial deformities from 2013.“Chevrolet has made a commitment to serve and improve communities in which we live and work,” said GM Viet Nam Sales and Marketing General Director, Le Thanh Mai.Approximately one in 700 children worldwide are born with a cleft lip, cleft palate or both, and every three minutes a child is born with these conditions. A large … [Read more...] about GM Viet Nam joins hands with Operation Smile