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The training course to equip sailors serving basic skills about: waiters, bars, teaching and enhancing the English knowledge, ways of communication, mentality of visitors…

On 7-12 recently, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Ninh already opened the course to train profession for sailors serving on three starred overnight ships. The course lasted 15 days with over 30 sailors to attend.

Lecturers having long experience in the hotel branch, tourism will instruct and equip sailors serving basic skills on: serving tables, bars, teaching and enhancing English command, ways of communications, mentality of visitors……..at the training course, students were also paid attention to practice and training fluently skills of communications, serving… the practice is applied directly with the delegations of visitors visitors of the private enterprise of Bien Mo.

Currently, Ha Long Bay has 120 overnight ships and nearly 600 servants being trained basically, which is one of necessary and meaningful activities. It is said that, the training of profession for sailors on overnight ships will be organized fluently.

Many Vietnamese records will be announced in 2009, through a project seeking records in 63 provinces and cities of Vietnam, stated the Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings).

The 15th Meeting of Vietnamese Record Holders will be held on January 4, 2009 at the HCM City-based Dam Sen Park. At the meeting, the Club of Vietnamese Record Makers will be introduced for the first time, in addition to approximately 30 new records.

The Club of Vietnamese Record Makers will have the participation of famous people, like Lieutenant General Pham Tuan (the first Vietnamese go to space), Professor Tran Van Khue, Honored Artist Ho Kieng, writers Mac Can and Nguyen Nhat Anh, sculptor To Sanh, and teacher Nguyen Ngoc Ky (who writes and does everything by his feet).

At this year’s end, the Hanoi flower festival, from December 31 to January 4 on Dinh Tien Hoang Street, some flower-related records will be made, including a huge flower gate and flower fan (12m diameter, 4.5m high), a flower dragon (4m high, 15m long), and a pottery street (50m long, 0.8m high).

In January 2009, three records will be made at the Dam Sen Park, including: the largest vegetarian pizza, the largest roasted cinnamon pork, and the largest rice soup bowl.

The Vietnam Record Book Centre has proposed to recognize a poem by Pham Dan Que as a poem that can be read in various manners (nearly 2,000 manners of reading). This poem was performed for the first time on the death anniversary of the great poet Nguyen Du in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province in 2007.

On December 6, Vietkings recognized a 10m barbecued meat rack as the highest of its kind in Vietnam. This jack was made by 4.8kg of beef, 3.6kg of chicken, 2.5kg of sausage, 3kg of ham, and vegetables. This was the product of 15 chefs at a food festival in Van Thanh Tourist Site, HCM City.

On December 7, Vietkings presented the certificate of Vietnam record to a pair of dragons at the Tran Nhan Tong King Temple in the central city of Hue.

(Source: Tien Phong/VNN)

According to the latest report from the General Department of Population, the number of third children born to families in 43 provinces nationwide is 95,000. It is estimated that the number of third child births will increase to 142,000 by the end of this year.

The increase in the number is attributed to the fact that many families have misunderstood the 2003 Population Ordinance regarding the timing of births and the number of children.

To reduce the birth rate, the revised draft on the Population Ordinance has been compiled with specific regulations that each family should give birth to one or two children. The revised ordinance also stipulated that 15 groups will be allowed to give birth to a third child.

The General Statistics Office has also compiled a draft decree on punishing civil servants who violate the Population Ordinance. (VOV NEWS)

A charitable concert was held in Paris on December 7 to raise funds in support of outstanding students from low-income group in Ho Chi Minh City.

The concert, entitled “Gap go mua thu” (Meeting autumn), was performed by opera artist Hoang Lan, a Vietnamese resident in France and famous artist Anh Tuyet from HCM City.

The audience at the concert had a chance to hear the beautiful voices of the two artists through timeless songs such as “Me Yeu Con” (Mom loves baby), “Hanoi Mua Thu” (Hanoi autumn), “Ha Giang Que Toi” (Ha Giang – my homeland), “Thuyen Va Bien” (Ship and sea) and “Tho Tinh Cuoi Mua Thu” (Love poem in late autumn), as well as famous opera pieces composed by Schubert, Guccini, Poulenc and Bach-Gounod.

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The ancient city of Hoi An in Central Quang Nam province needs an estimated VND1.1 trillion to preserve and develop its cultural heritage value in the 2009-2020 period, according to a project designed by the Central Branch of the Institute of Building Science and Technology.

The project will be submitted to the Government for approval.

Hoi An is a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century.

Over recent years, the city has become a very popular tourist destination with its buildings and street plan reflecting the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site in Vietnam.

It was declared as world cultural heritage site by UNESCO in 1999.

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The second Oriental Dance Festival will be held in Hanoi on December 11 with the participation of nearly 40 dancers from across the country.

The event provides a great chance for seven dance groups, namely Sadie, Shara Esmeraldas, JAWA, Ceherazate, KenvinQ, Baste Douat and Lotus, to show off their talents.

In addition to traditional oriental dances, spectators will enjoy other special drum beating performances and various other dance styles including flamenco, tribal, Gothic and Cane.

The first Oriental Dance Festival was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Hanoi in October 2007, leaving a deep impression on spectators. Since then, oriental dance has become more popular in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and other big cities and provinces. Apsara Dance Studio – a leading dance studio in Hanoi - has trained nearly 400 women who are keen on oriental dance.

To prepare for the event, Bastet Douat gave performances in Mosaique Living Room, the Noc Bar and J.A.F.A, where they received a warm welcome from spectators.

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Vietnam Airlines resumed its flights on December 6 to international Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok as the airport had taken up again its full operation after a long shutdown due to anti-government protesters’ blockage.

Twenty stranded Vietnamese passengers were brought home on the first flight that landed Vietnam at around 2 p.m.

Two other flights, one from Hanoi and the other from Ho Chi Minh City, are scheduled to land at Suvarnabhumi airport later on the day.

Nguyen Khoi Nguyen, Chief Representative of Vietnam Airlines in Bangkok, said two regular Vietnam Airlines flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok will take off as usual thereafter.

Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi airport, one of Asia’s largest, resumed full operations on December 5 after the more than ten-day-long shutdown because of a political crisis.