The first funeral service for passengers from a missing Malaysian jetliner will be held in Australia this weekend, nearly eight weeks after the plane disappeared and apparently crashed in the remote southern Indian Ocean. Family and friends of Rod and Mary Burrows, two of six Australians on board the flight, will be holding a formal memorial in Brisbane on Sunday, according to a statement on behalf of the family released by police on Friday. … [Read more...] about Funerals planned for Australian passengers on missing Malaysia jet
Family funeral plan
High-level funeral for deputy police minister Pham Quy Ngo
The funeral of the late Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Pham Quy Ngo, who passed away Tuesday, will be conducted with the necessary rituals for high-ranking officials, the Ministry of Public Security said. >> Internal affairs body to handle claims against vice police minister>> Prosecutors receive case involving vice police minister >> Not enough proof for bribery confessed by ex-Vinalines boss >> Probe ordered into 'state secret' case involving vice minister The funeral, to be organized by the ministry, will be carried out under relevant regulations in Decree 105 of the Government on organizing funerals for officials and civil servants, said the ministry. The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, the ministry, and the family of the deceased issued a death notice on Wednesday, February 19. According to the funeral plan, the memorial … [Read more...] about High-level funeral for deputy police minister Pham Quy Ngo
Veteran builds a family for the needy
Retired, single and childless, a former soldier opens his heart and wallet to men and women often seen as outcasts. A man in his later years braves his own disability to tend to the young, but he receives no salary and uses money from his own pocket for others’ expenses. He adopts children abandoned by their own parents, and never marries but ends up having a bigger family than he ever imagined. Such stories of generosity are rare, but not at the Tu Tam Nhan Ai (Humanity) Shelter located in an isolated area in Binh Duong Province’s Thuong Tan Commune, about a two-hour drive from HCM City and a ferryboat ride across a river. The shelter, sitting alone surrounded by fields, is an enclosed cluster of five simple houses that constitute an entire world for a group of needy but vulnerable souls — from newborns to 90-year-olds — whose troubles have required separation from the harshness of life outside. As you approach the area, there’s no hint that the … [Read more...] about Veteran builds a family for the needy
Funeral traditions on their last legs
Funeral traditions on their last legs (06-12-2007) HA NOI — New trends and developments could mean terminal change for traditional funeral ceremonies, a seminar in Ha Noi heard last week. The one-day seminar, held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, discussed reports on funeral arrangements in areas that currently have no regulations and aimed to set out a new way of controlling all ceremonies, including issuing instructions and rules on customs like burying many corpses in one grave and exhuming remains to move to another location. These traditions are extremely backward and out of place in today's society, head of Ha Noi's Culture and Information Department Nguyen Dao Toan said. But another equally pressing problem is on the other end of the scale, Le Hong Ly from the Culture Research Institute said, citing development as the principle catalyst. "As people get richer and lifestyles change in rural areas, it's becoming fashionable for families to build large and … [Read more...] about Funeral traditions on their last legs
The plan to implement the movement of the entire people uniting to build up cultural life in the phase 2011-2015
(Cinet) – Recently, the MOCST already had the Document No. 64/TTr-BVHTTDL to submit the Prime Minister to approve the plan to implement the movement of the entire people uniting to build up cultural life in the phase 2011-2015. Accordingly, the goal of the plan needed to be forwarded is: enhancing the quality of the movement of building up cultural family, cultural commune, village, hamlet, cultural group, cultural standard enterprises, creating advanced changes in building up people in thought, morality, lifestyle, cultural lifestyle, implementing well civilized lifestyle in wedding, funeral, and festival, building up a healthy cultural life, enhancing social evils. The plan to implement the movement (the entire people uniting to build up cultural life) in the phase 2011-2015 will concentrate on the contents such as: building up good people, good doings, and typical advanced people, developing the role of the campaign “the entire people uniting to build up cultural … [Read more...] about The plan to implement the movement of the entire people uniting to build up cultural life in the phase 2011-2015