The exhibition was aimed at giving viewers a new perspective of stamps which contain information on remarkable cultural and historical events. With a passionate love for stamps, painter Hoang Thuy Lieu created these paintings based on stamps issued by the Vietnam Post. Each stamp is a work of art that she has enlarged, allowing viewers to enjoy the stories therein in a different way. Her works show national culture through legends and historical stories, namely Auco-Lac Long Quan and the Imperial Capital of Hue. The exhibition also showcased the valuable stamp collections of Vu Van Ty, including five standard stamp frameworks of the bamboo and life collections which won a bronze medal at the International Stamp Exhibition in Beijing, China in 2003 and others about traditional Vietnamese art and architecture. Vu Van Ty said that when he was a student he pursued a passion for collecting stamps which gradually grew with the years he worked in the post office sector and then the Stamp … [Read more...] about “The Story of Stamps”
Beijing love story
Para Games opening to highlight love
The opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Para Games will not focus on high-tech performances but emotion - a feature that will display disabled performers' and athletes' love for life and society, Zhu Jianwei, director-in-chief of the ceremony, said. The ceremony, scheduled on Dec 12 at the Aoti Main Stadium in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, includes three parts - each with an emotional theme to convey love among family, society and disabled persons, Zhu said. … [Read more...] about Para Games opening to highlight love
Dancing is the love of their lives
In recent years the Vietnamese dance industry has been lit up by a new generation of emerging female artists who dance with all their heart and talent. Tuoi Tre introduces several outstanding individuals known for their contribution to the art of dancing. She received a scholarship to study ballet at the Kiev National Dance School in Ukraine when she was 11. After eight years of hard studying, Nhu graduated in 1992, returned to Vietnam that year, and worked with the October Ballet troupe for the next ten years. "Our troupe's teachers were always passionate. My love of dancing has never ended, but I couldn't afford my life with dancing. Sometimes we would only be invited to a national dance festival in Hanoi during a whole year. I had to receive help from my family to support my life. So the decision to say goodbye to the troupe in 2002 was a tough choice, but there was nothing else I could do," Nhu said. After quitting dancing, she started studying graphic design in the hope … [Read more...] about Dancing is the love of their lives
Why China’s film makers love to hate Japan
Actors in Japanese military uniforms take pictures of each other while holding a flag demanding the return of uninhabited islets known as Senkaku isles in Japan, Diaoyu islands in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan, to China, during the filming of an anti-Japanese World War Two film at the Hengdian Film City in Zhejiang Province March 2, 2013. Shi Zhongpeng dies for a living. For 3,000 yuan ($488) a month, the sturdily built stuntman is killed over and over playing Japanese soldiers in war movies and TV series churned out by Chinese film studios. Despite his lack of dramatic range, the 23-year-old's roles have made him a minor celebrity in China. Once, Shi says, he perished 31 times in a single day of battle. On the set of the television drama "Warning Smoke Everywhere," which has just finished shooting here at the sprawling Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang Province, he suffers a typically grisly fate. "I play a shameful Japanese soldier in a way that when people watch, they feel he … [Read more...] about Why China’s film makers love to hate Japan
31-year love story of Vietnamese man and Korean woman
VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman finally got married and it was the happy ending of a 31-year love story. After four years studying at the university, in 1971, the Vietnamese man began working as an apprentice at a fertilizer factory in Hamhung, where he met a girl named Ri Yong Hui, who worked in the analysis division. … [Read more...] about 31-year love story of Vietnamese man and Korean woman