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EXHIBITION Hanoi-Fine Art Exhibition: Engraving Paintings Hanoi-Fragments of Nostalgia Until Mar 7, 10 am – 07 pm Mơ Art Space, 136 Hang Trong Street, Hoan Kiem District From the organizer: A solo showcase of Phan Tuan Ngoc – Fragments of Nostalgia. The exhibition is a retrospective of the artists’ memories, delivered through desaturated colors, playful minimalism and poetry. Ngoc’s work experiments mainly with installation, oil on canvas and mixed media on Do paper. About the artist: Phan Tuấn Ngọc (b. 1983) majored in Chemistry and Biology, but chose to pursue an art career as he was deeply in love with the beauty of colors and materials. Ngoc has been active since 2009, with work exhibited at many famous local showcases such as Vietnamese Art Exhibition (2020), Exhibition of Young Artists Club (2017-2019), Biennale of Saigon (2017, 2019), Vietnam Regional Exhibition II (2013-2020), Group Exhibition at Vietnam National Museum of Fine Art (2019), and VOSAP Art from Heart Contest Exhibition (2020). Hanoi-Exhibition features paintings by people with autism Until Feb 29, Megan Gallery, 299 Trung Kinh street, Cau Giay district An exhibition entitled Sac Mau - Nhung Manh Ghep (The Pieces of Colours) showing some 40 paintings by To Do Huong Giang, Nguyen Van Duy, Vu Do Tuan Duy, Nguyen Trung Hieu, Pham Quang Huy and Nguyen Danh Lam. The artists, who are aged from 13 to 22 years old and have autism, have learned to paint at a charity painting class run by artist Luong Giang. Hanoi-Online exhibition featuring shared culture of Vietnam, Australia Until March 12, 2021 An online exhibition, the "Skilled Hands, Shared Culture" featuring 20 contemporary Vietnamese and Australian designers, artists and artisans whose work contributes to supporting vibrant and sustainable communities. The Vietnamese artists joining the exhibition comprise Le Giang, Nguyen Tan Phat, Nguyen Thi Dung, Nguyen Van …

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Students participate in planting to spread the habit of cherishing green life. — Photo thanhnien.vn HÀ NỘI — A group of young people are helping each other to live a greener lifestyle, and hope their actions will spread into the wider community. At Đà Nẵng University of Economics, green living activities have become familiar to students, with the project "Green University DUE", creating an environment and motivation to gradually change living habits. This effort not only brings the image of green living closer to the staff, lecturers and students in the school but also spreads the spirit of green living in the community. Nguyễn Thị Cẩm Trinh, a student of the international business faculty, chose to participate in the "14-day Green Living Challenge" with a seemingly simple challenge: not using plastic straws. “To me, it was a very small challenge, but it was really impressive and meaningful," Trinh told the Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper. "These challenges will contribute to a big change in the green living habits of each individual.” Nhật Linh, a student of e-commerce, has participated in the challenge since it was launched. Linh chooses simple challenges that can be applied every day. “I say no to plastic, refuse to go plastic when I go to the shop and share my habit of carrying boxes and glasses,” she said. For Linh, not using plastic is no longer a challenge, but it becomes a habit for her and her relatives. Trinh and Linh are proud to be members of the community with more than 1,000 "Green Living Warriors" after spending more than 14 days living green. They share that habit with their friends via social media. Joining the community "Live greener every day" with the activities "Opening day", Đoàn Thị Bảo Vy, also a student of the university experienced the activities of planting trees, exchanging scrap paper and batteries for potted plants. Vy enjoys being in the green living atmosphere, hoping to create a community of young …

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Nguyen Thi Thanh, 54, wears a helmet every time she leaves her house. She is not preparing for road traffic. She is afraid that chunks of the ceiling along the corridors could fall off any time. Thanh lives in the Truc Giang residential quarters in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 4, a complex built before 1975. These days, the ceiling along corridors of most blocks has peeled off, revealing rusted, dark brown metal bars. There are cracks everywhere. Electric wires and cables are intricately wound and the electric boxes badly damaged. The balcony on a corridor of the dilapidated Truc Giang apartment complex in District 4, HCMC, January 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Ha An. Apartments on the highest floor in this complex suffer water leaks every time it rains. Thanh, 33, who lives in one of the top apartments, said every rainy season, he has to apply cement on the roof to prevent the water leak. But even this layer of protection cannot prevent water from seeping in if it rains heavily. When this happens, the entire family has to take shelter at their parents’ house. "I don’t need a beautiful house. I just need a safe one," he said. In 2018, municipal authorities found a private investor to rebuild the Truc Giang complex. The investor suggested that residents move back into the complex after it has been rebuilt, with the conversion rate of changing every one square meter of the old apartment for 1.1 m2 in the new apartment. Those not okay with this conversion rate can sell their apartments to the investor at VND27.5 million ($1,193) per square meter. However, several residents did not accept the exchange rate, saying it was too low compared to the market price of VND40-50 million per square meter. With such disagreements yet to be settled, the investor was caught up in legal procedures that could create difficulties in the site clearing process. The investor quit. The city changed its tactic then to resettling all residents of the Truc …

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