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Artists perform Hue folk singing on a tourist boat on Huong river in Hue city. (Photo: VNA) - The Culture, and Sports Department of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is compiling a scientific dossier for Hue folk singing to seek UNESCO’s recognition as part of the world intangible heritage. Phan Thanh Gian, director of the department confirmed the news and said the authorities have hosted a training session for over 350 local artists in performing the art between November 11 and 30. After the session, the department will examine the practice of singing Hue folk songs on tourism boats in the city to turn the art into a local tourism product, he said.Culture, Sports and Tourism listed Hue folk singing as a national intangible cultural heritage. VNA … [Read more...] about Thua Thien-Hue to seek UNESCO recognition for Hue folk singing

Vietnam sent off 63 staff members to run the second rotation of its level-two field hospital as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in a ceremony in Hanoi on Wednesday morning. They are well-trained personnel who had completed UN training courses in the UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, and France, said Colonel Nguyen Nhu Canh, deputy director of the Peacekeeping Operations Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense. They have been trained by foreign military experts on air emergency, mass trauma emergency, and methods to prevent outbreaks of incurable diseases in environments similar to that in South Sudan, Canh said. “The level-two field hospital rotation 2 is well-prepared and ready to replace rotation 1 and perform the peacekeeping mission with utmost resolution,” he said. Staff members of Vietnam’s level-two field hospital rotation 2 receive a monetary gift from a Ministry of National Defense agency during a … [Read more...] about Vietnam deploys second level-2 field hospital to South Sudan

Lieut. Gen. Le Hien Van  (R) and Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nikolay Petrovic. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Lieut. Gen. Le Hien Van, deputy chief of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 20 for Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nikolay Petrovic, head of the Department for Military Counterintelligence Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia. At the meeting, Lieut. Gen. Van thanked the Russian people and army for their support to the Vietnamese people and army in the past struggle for national defence as well as the current process of national construction. The General Department of Politics highly valued an earlier working session between the Department for Military Counterintelligence Service and Vietnam’s Department of Military Security Protection, he said. The officer believed that the two sides will beef up cooperation in military security protection, contributing to the … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Russia intensify cooperation in military security

This supplied computer graphic shows image of Hayabusa2 space probe and the Ryugu asteroid.— KYODO/VNA Photo TOKYO — Japan's space agency said on Wednesday its Hayabusa2 space probe has departed from an asteroid which it landed on to collect samples and will make its return to Earth in November or December next year. The probe's return, previously scheduled to start by the end of this year, was brought forward after it successfully accomplished its planned tasks, departing from the Ryugu asteroid at 10:05 am, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. Its early departure will provide enough time for the agency to prepare for the release of a capsule carrying samples to Earth, JAXA said. Hayabusa2 will initially travel away from Ryugu at a speed of 10 centimetres per second, continuing to take images of the asteroid as it retreats. Around November 18, the space probe will adjust its posture once its distance from Ryugu reaches 65 kilometres where it is out of the … [Read more...] about Japan’s Hayabusa2 leaves asteroid to return to Earth at end of 2020

But he would not let her go. Instead, he posted a video clip of their having sex on his Facebook account, which went viral, attracting 300,000 views, 18,000 likes, and 4,000 shares. The insults, ridicule and taunts that followed traumatized her. She killed herself by drinking herbicide, leaving behind a phone message apologizing to her parents and squarely blaming her boyfriend for her death. This happened in the southern province of Dong Nai in June, 2015. The same month, two years earlier, a 12th grader also killed herself by drinking herbicide. Some boys in her class had cut and pasted her face on to another woman’s naked body and posted in Facebook. She threatened to kill herself if the boys did not remove the photograph, which had made her the butt of malicious teasing and jokes, but they refused and she took her own life. Last year, an 11th-grader from the central province of Nghe An drowned herself in a pond after a clip of her kissing her boyfriend in class … [Read more...] about Virtual reality: Sex, gender and the bane of cyber bullying