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Newspaper celebrates 30th anniversary
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The popular Vietnamese-language daily specialising in culture and sport fields yesterday celebrated its 30th anniversary at a function in Ha Noi.
The winning caricature by artist DAD on the Euro Cup 2012
in a competition organised by the The Thao&Van Hoa daily.
Run by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), The Thao & Van Hoa (Sports & Culture) was born as a 16-page publication covering World Cup Espana in 1982.
The daily has added a weekly publication on Fridays and a frequently updated website which has been running since June 2008.
The newspaper also produces three programmes on the VNA's television channel VNews – Hanh Tinh The Thao (Sport Planet), Van Hoa Toan Canh (Cultural Panorama) and a talk show, Culture Radar.
At yesterday's ceremony, the newspaper received a first class Labour Order award from the Government.
Addressing the ceremony, VNA general director Nguyen Duc Loi praised the daily as "one of the first newspaper specialising in sports and culture in the 1980s, when knowledge of the field was limited among readers".
The newspaper also organises annual events like Cong Hien (Devotion) Awards for music workers, Press Cartoon Awards and Bui Xuan Phai Prizes for Ha Noi Lovers, for dedicated individuals and collectives making great contributions to Ha Noi.
At the same event, the newspaper presented awards to winners of two contests it organised: one on caricatures from Euro Cup 2012 and the other on written impressions of the newspaper.
Artist Do Anh Dung (pen name DAD) won first prize in the caricature contest with his impression of Spanish football team manager Del Bosque.
Painter Le Anh Phong (pen name LAP) took second prize and Tran Minh Dung (NHOP) came third.
There were 150 entries from professional and amateur painters nationwide.
In the writing contest, hundreds of entries were received and 32 made the final cut. However, judges were unable to separate the top entries and thus awarded top prizes to Vi Thuy Linh, Le Sa Long and Le Chi Dung.
Each contestant wrote on readers' impressions of the daily and recalled reactions to early publications.
The same situation occurred with the runners-up where six people received prizes. Ten encouragement awards were also made.
Statue dedicated to famed French physician on Nha Trang Beach
A bust of French-Swiss doctor Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943) has just been unveiled. The bust is placed in south of Tran Phu Bridge on Nha Trang Beach.
The blue granite bust was based on a design by artists Xuan Tien and Ngo Liem from HCM City's Fine Arts Association. It is 4m tall including a pedestal of 0.6m.
Yersin worked in French Indochina as a physician in 1890 before travelling widely in the region. He spent much of his time in Viet Nam, particularly coastal city of Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province.
In 1934 he was named honorary director of the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute and a member of its Board of Administration. He died at his home in Nha Trang in 1943.
After 1975, streets named in his honour kept their designation, and his tomb in Suoi Dau, Nha Trang was graced by a shrine where rites are still performed in his memory. Yersin's house in Nha Trang is now the Yersin Museum, and the epitaph on his tombstone describes him as a "Benefactor and humanist, venerated by the Vietnamese people."
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