ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 29/7

Miss Vietnam Global to own $50,000 crown 

 

The beauty queen of Miss Vietnam Global 2010 pageant for Vietnamese girls around the world will forever own their crown inlaid with gemstones worth 1 billion dong (over $52,000).

Based on the artistic theme of the pageant “sea beauty, lotus fragrance, Vietnamese soul,” craftsmen made the crown in 1000 hours. The crown looks like a blossom lotus. Each petal is in the shape of wave. The crown is inlaid with 606 diamonds and Amethyst of 2-12 carats. A 8x12 carat Amethyst is the crown highlight.

Apart from the valuable crown, the winner will receive 500 million dong of cash ($26,000) and many valuable gifts.

The finale will take place at Vinpearland, Nha Trang City on August 21.

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Youthful book nominated for ASEAN Literature Award

The Vietnamese Writers’ Association has nominated Nguyen Nhat Anh’s Cho Toi Mot Ve Di Tuoi Tho (Give Me a Ticket Back to Childhood) to compete for the ASEAN Literature Award 2010.

This book won the association’s award in 2009 and was among the best-sellers at the HCM City Book Festival 2008.

Nguyen Nhat Anh is a very popular writer for children in Vietnam. He has written nearly 100 books for kids.

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Ancient Cham tower discovered in Binh Thuan

The Museum of Binh Thuan province on July 25 discovered an ancient Cham tower in Binh Tan commune.

Director Nguyen Xuan Ly commented that this tower is very special and different from others in Binh Thuan. This one looks like the Cham towers in My Son and is not on the list of towers discovered by the French in central Vietnam.

Excavators discovered the major tower, which had collapsed on its square foundation, which is 3m wide. The tower is 7.05m high, with a wall foundation of 3m.

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Hanoi to build flower-tree welcome gates

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has agreed with Hanoi’s proposal to build welcome gates with flowers and trees to celebrate the city’s 1000^th anniversary.

Hanoi recently asked the government to cancel the five welcome gates worth 50 billion dong, using the capital from businesses to build temporary gates instead. The gates made of flowers and trees cost little to construct.

The city’s idea to build five welcome gates of 50 billion dong was protested by both experts and the public, who said that the city should build simple and cheap gates. Architects also didn’t agree with the city’s gate designs.

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Vung Tau World Food Festival seeks Guinness Record

The organizing board of the World Food Festival 2010, which took place in Vung Tau city on July 21-25, hopes that the event will be recognized by the Guinness Book as the food festival organized in the longest space.

The festival stretched over 3 kilometers along the coast of Vung Tau, introducing cuisines of Vietnam and other countries, plus many cultural and art shows and also famous speakers.

The event attracted 62 international and domestic delegations and it is recognized by the Vietnam Record Book to have the highest number of delegations.

More than 400,000 people joined the event, consuming around 100 tons of food of all kinds. The organizing board collected 8 billion dong from selling food tickets.

Some pictures shot at the festival:

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Hanoi through old maps exhibition

Celebrating Hanoi’s 1000^th anniversary, the National Archive Centre will organize an exhibition of old documents about Hanoi entitled “Hanoi’s Urban Planning and Administrative Border in 1873-1954”.

The exhibit will introduce 68 old maps of Hanoi and some valuable documents to help visitors learn about Hanoi in the past. The most special exhibits are original maps on cloth.

The documents and maps are divided into four parts, equivalent to Hanoi’s expansion in different periods.

The first part includes maps from 1873 to 1895, during the French period when France fixed the city’s border and made plans to expand Hanoi and turn it into an European-style city.

The second part comprises documents from 1895 to 1927 when many French-styled works were built in Hanoi. The two other parts are from 1928-1945 and 1945-1954.

The exhibition will open on August 12 and close on December 31 at 18 Trung Yen 1, Cau Giay District, Hanoi.

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