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Regional events require increased co-ordination HA NOI VNS
China asked to immediately release Vietnamese crew HA NOI
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Food inspections due in April HA NOI
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Ethnic girls to receive scholarships HCM CITY
Ethnic minority girls will receive seven-year scholarhips to complete their high school and undergraduate university courses under a new scheme announced by its sponsors yesterday. The VinaCapital Foundation (VCF) and Vu A Dinh Fund said they were entering into a partnership to implement an "innovative" programme to help educate ethnic minority girls, one of the most disadvantaged groups in the country. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Don Lam, CEO of VinaCapital Group and Chairman of the VinaCapital Foundation, and Vu Quang Vinh, director of the fund, an NGO that focuses on providing scholarships for ethnic minority students. The programme called "A Brighter Path: Scholarships for Ethnic Minority Girls" will provide scholarships for girls from various ethnic minority communities throughout Viet Nam who are exemplary students. The initial donation of US$13,500 to fund the first year of scholarships for 50 girls is being provided by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Viet Nam (CanCham), and will be matched by the VinaCapital Group. The programme will provide 100 girls from poor families with scholarships for seven years to attend high school and university. Eligible applicants must be members of one of Viet Nam’s ethnic minority groups, demonstrate high academic excellence, and come from families living at or below the national poverty line – monthly per capita income of $13. Once accepted into the programme, each student will receive a seven-year scholarship, including four years of university, that includes support for books, food, housing and uniforms or clothing. In addition, VCF and Vu A Dinh will convene the girls once a year for the "Dream Meeting", a workshop/retreat that will give them a chance to reflect on their progress and brainstorm future goals. The girls will also be matched with mentors from Vu A Dinh, who will keep open lines of communication in the event the girls need academic or personal guidance. The programme’s pilot year will support 5015-year-old girls from various communities all over Viet Nam, after which the number of students will be increased to 100.
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Patriotic composer Xuan Oanh dies at age 86 HA NOI
Xuan Oanh, who composed the revolutionary song 19 Thang Tam (August the Nineteenth), passed away on Saturday, aged 86.
Diplomat, translator, amateur painter and musician ¨C Oanh was a man for all seasons, but it was for 19 Thang Tam, that was played on the first day of the successful 1945 revolution when President Ho Chi Minh declared Viet Nam indenpendent from France, that he is best remembered. Oanh was born in 1923 into a poor family in the northern province of Quang Ninh. In August 1945, the nation was a powder keg of dissent. In the early morning of August 19, 22-year-old Oanh, a Viet Minh (Viet Nam League for Independence) cadre, joined a march that ended at Ha Noi’s Opera House. As he looked upon the sea of yellow-starred red flags fluttering in the breeze he sung the first words of what was to become a rallying cry for the revolution: All the people of Viet Nam rise up this day and fight the good fight. Swear to sacrifice bone and blood in the fight for our future. August nineteen. The light from the star of freedom shines. Flags fly everywhere... The song has just 102 words. Later it was published and broadcast on the radio. It became a rallying cry that united the nation against its oppressors. A highly developed sense of self-education helped Oanh become one of the first English speakers to broadcast on Radio the Voice of Viet Nam. Thanks to lessons from his elders, he also succeeded in further grasping English and French, and became known by his foreign affairs colleagues as an expert translator. Russian, German, Spanish and Chinese are also on his list of languages. In the 60’s and 70’s, Oanh participated in various historic events such as the first Asian Peace Congress in Beijing the 1962 Geneva Conference on Laos and the 1968-1973 Paris Talks on Viet Nam. As a people-to-people diplopmat he worked for the Viet Nam Peace Committee, and the Committee in Solidarity with French and American People, tirelessly compaigning for an end to the America war in Viet Nam. His music also won a place in the hearts of international friends. In 1989, during a peace drive in Hiroshima to collect signatures protesting against weapons of mass destruction, Oanh wrote the four-movement work The Sky Will Turn Blue Again based on a poem by Japanese bard Umeda Shyozi. He translated dozens of foreign books by famous writers, such as Mark Twain and Jeffrey Archer. His funeral will be held tomorrow at the State Funeral Hall on Tran Thanh Tong Street, Ha Noi.
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French loan backs investment reform HA NOI
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