Maths guru named Outstanding Citizen

HA NOI — Mathematician and Fields Medal-winner Ngo Bao Chau was among eleven persons presented with the title of Outstanding Ha Noi Citizen of 2010 by Ha Noi People's Committee Chairman Nguyen The Thao on Saturday.

Chau, 38, thanked the Party, authorities and people of Ha Noi for the honour and for their recognition.

He was awareded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in India on August 19 for his work in the area of automorphic forms.

VN goods well received at Beijing charity fair

BEIJING — A Vietnamese booth displaying a number of the nation's specialities opened to a popular reception at an international charity fair for the disabled in Beijing on Saturday.

Drawing over 60 participants from the foreign diplomatic corps and international organisations, the event aimed to raise funds for the construction of community-based rehabilitation centres and improve the quality of life for the disabled in China's Gansu and He Bei provinces, the hardest hit by recent mudslides.

China Federation for the Disabled vice president Tang Xiao Quan expressed her gratitude to the participants for their thoughtfulness and assistance to China's estimated 83 million disabled.

Ha Noi approves plan to boost labourer jobs

HA NOI — Ha Noi People's Committee has approved plans to create jobs for 705,000 labours in the next five years, including sending 23,000 people to work abroad.

The city also planned to promote its labour export activity, develop policies to support disadvantaged poor people to work overseas and improve its management.

From 2006-09, the city sent about 3,120 people to work overseas each year, accounting for only two per cent of those who found jobs.

War museum marks 35th anniversary

HCM CITY — The War Remnants Museum in HCM City has seen 11.6 million visitors, including 4 million foreign visitors, since it opened 35 years ago.

Museum director Huynh Ngoc Van said the museum had become a centre for research as well as for collection and displays of artefacts documenting war crimes by Viet Nam's enemies.

The museum contains a collection of more than 15,000 items and photos collected from the north, the centre and Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta and from foreign countries.

It has also opened 10-12 mobile exhibitions every year to bring items to people in rural provinces and cities across the country. — VNS

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Hanoi-Amsterdam school upgraded to regional level

Hanoi mayor Nguyen The Thao pinned a plate “Project in celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary” to the gate of the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School on the inauguration of the 2010-11 academic year on Saturday.

The school has been reconstructed as the most modern in Vietnam and put on a par with other leading schools in the region.

Thao, whose official title is the Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman, said the project was an evidence of the municipal administration’s thoughtfulness and sense of responsibility to the school in an effort to nurture young talents for the capital city and the nation as a whole.

He expressed thanks to the Dutch people, especially Amsterdam citizens, for their assistance to the development cause in Vietnam, especially Hanoi.

“May such a friendship and cooperation, especially in education and training, further develop, thus contributing to improving the educational quality of the Hanoi-Amsterdam school to a new height,” said the municipal leader.

The Dutch Ambassador said he would do his best to boost the student exchange program between the Hanoi-Amsterdam and a school of gifted students in the Netherlands.

He also presented five scholarships for a study visit to schools in Amsterdam in next summer.

The Hanoi-Amsterdam High School was first built in September, 1985 as a gift of the Dutch capital city to Hanoi. The school has contributed over 100 international prize winners to the nation.

In 2000, the school was awarded the title “Labor Hero in the Renewal Period”, a high State honor.

The school embarked on reconstruction on May 19, 2008 at a cost of VND429 billion. It now houses 45 classes capable of accommodating some 2,000 students.

Its campus, covering 5 ha of land in the downtown street of Tran Duy Hung, includes nine classrooms specializing in fostering talented students and physical and hobby training such as music, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, football and basketball playgrounds.

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Hanoi-Amsterdam school upgraded to regional level

Hanoi mayor Nguyen The Thao pinned a plate “Project in celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary” to the gate of the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School on the inauguration of the 2010-11 academic year on Saturday.

The school has been reconstructed as the most modern in Vietnam and put on a par with other leading schools in the region.

Thao, whose official title is the Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman, said the project was an evidence of the municipal administration’s thoughtfulness and sense of responsibility to the school in an effort to nurture young talents for the capital city and the nation as a whole.

He expressed thanks to the Dutch people, especially Amsterdam citizens, for their assistance to the development cause in Vietnam, especially Hanoi.

“May such a friendship and cooperation, especially in education and training, further develop, thus contributing to improving the educational quality of the Hanoi-Amsterdam school to a new height,” said the municipal leader.

The Dutch Ambassador said he would do his best to boost the student exchange program between the Hanoi-Amsterdam and a school of gifted students in the Netherlands.

He also presented five scholarships for a study visit to schools in Amsterdam in next summer.

The Hanoi-Amsterdam High School was first built in September, 1985 as a gift of the Dutch capital city to Hanoi. The school has contributed over 100 international prize winners to the nation.

In 2000, the school was awarded the title “Labor Hero in the Renewal Period”, a high State honor.

The school embarked on reconstruction on May 19, 2008 at a cost of VND429 billion. It now houses 45 classes capable of accommodating some 2,000 students.

Its campus, covering 5 ha of land in the downtown street of Tran Duy Hung, includes nine classrooms specializing in fostering talented students and physical and hobby training such as music, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, football and basketball playgrounds.

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Hanoi police nab 'development' con

Hanoi police said Friday that they have arrested a woman for probing allegations she had cheated a variety of individuals and organizations, including government agencies, across the country.

Investigations showed that Nguyen Thi Quy Huyen, director of My-Viet Company, which was opened in Hanoi in 2001 to provide investment consultancy services, boasted that her company was the representative of US-owned Global Hope Fund – a NGO seeking to aid suburban localities in Vietnam.

The 66-year-old woman, who used to work as a teacher before going to Russia and coming back later, would ask her partners to sign consultancy contracts and give her a deposit of between tens and hundreds of millions of dong.

However, after receiving the money, she would drop the projects giving various excuses, police said, adding that they found no foreign organization called Global Hope Fund was licensed to operate in Vietnam.

To convince her victims, Huyen showed them photos of herself with high-ranking officials, as well as documents showing her property was worth about US$50 million, according to the police. She would also travel in hired luxurious cars and even a helicopter to gain their trust, they added.

Initial investigations show that in 2008, Huyen signed a contract with the northern province of Hung Yen’s Association of Medium and Small Businesses to provide consultancy services on projects to build a high school and a hospital.

She then received VND160 million ($8,217) and $1,300 in deposit from Cao Hong Thanh, vice chairman of the association, but didn’t make any progress on the projects, police said.

She allegedly used the same trick to cheat Dac So Commune’s People’s Committee in Ha Tay Province (now part of Hanoi) out of VND30 million and over VND660 million from other local organizations.

Police said since April they have received hundreds of letters accusing Huyen of cheating them, and they were yet to compile complete statistics on the victims and their losses.

Further investigation is ongoing, police said.

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Vietnam joins Beijing charity sale

Photo: Reuters

The Vietnamese pavilion, with a number of specialties such as coffee on show at an international charity sale in Beijing, China, was crowded with visitors and customers.

The event, the second of its kind so far, was opened on September 4, calling for “Love without border and financial assistance for the disabled”.

The charity event, drawing over 60 agencies of foreign diplomatic corps and international organisations in China, aimed to raise fund for the construction of community-based functional rehabilitation centres and improve life quality, such as the capacity of community integration, for the disabled in Gansu and He Bei provinces, which were hardest hit by recent huge mudslides.

A deputy president of the Chinese Federation of the Disabled, Tang Xiao Quan, expressed thanks to the foreign diplomatic corps and foreign business circles for their thoughtfulness and assistance to Chinese disabled people.

The latest survey showed that China was home to some 83 million disabled people, mostly in the countryside.
 

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Party, State leaders join school year opening ceremony

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh attends the new school year opening ceremony at Chu Van An High School in Hanoi

Photo: VNA

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh Saturday attended the new school year opening ceremony at Chu Van An High School in Hanoi, hailing the school’s achievements.

General Secretary Manh congratulated the school’s teachers and students on their new academic year, saying they should maintain and promote their teaching and studying to obtain more achievements.

The Party leader on this occasion asked the education sector to continue improving management and education quality, creating strong and comprehensive changes in the sector.

He stressed the ultimate goal of the education-training sector and the socialist school which is teaching and educating pupils with great aspirations toward the motherland.

Chu Van An is considered a cradle for outstanding students. Many students from the school became patriotic personalities, intellectuals and leaders of the Party and State such as Ngo Gia Tu, Nguyen Van Cu, Pham Van Dong. Uncle Ho visited the school three times and the hundred-year old school has been recognised as a national cultural and historical relic site.

On the same day, State President Nguyen Minh Triet attended and beat the drum to open the new academic year at Thang Long Secondary School in Hanoi .

Speaking to teachers and students at the school, President Triet highlighted the school’s achievements in the past year.

He asked every teacher and officer of Thang Long school to uphold tradition and chalk up even greater achievements in the future, so that their school will deserve to bear the name of the capital city and its glorious thousand-year history.

The State leader told the school students to exert more efforts in their studies, practice good morals and actively take part in social activities./.
 

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More Da Lat elephants lose their tails

Two elephants in the central highlands resort town of Da Lat had their tails illegally cut Tuesday in the third such case reported in the province over the past four months.

According to forest rangers in Lam Dong Province, where the town is located, the elephants were attacked at around 3 a.m. when they were in the Prenn Falls tourism area.

They are two of three elephants that the area’s management board hired from Phan Dac Mau Dai in Duc Trong District three years ago.

Dai said usually the animals would be brought to the area in the morning and back to his house some 800 meters away at night, but he had let them free in the area recently as they were in their reproductive season.

“Losing their tails won’t affect their life, if the wounds are treated properly, but it would greatly affect their beauty,” Dai said, adding that the cut tail sections were about 30 centimeters long each.

Lam Dong’s forest rangers said local agencies had recently arrested four people on suspicion of cutting elephant tails.

Central highlands provinces lately have reported many cases where elephants' tails have been cut because of beliefs that hairs from the pachyderms' tails bring good luck in love and business.

A tail hair can be sold for up to VND400,000 (US$20.52), local reports say.

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