Vietnamese films

The Vietnam Cinema Department Wednesday said Hoan Khue company, the producer of "Rom", had sent the movie to the festival before it was censored. Under the Cinematography Law, films must have been certified by the Vietnam Cinema Department or approved for broadcast by television broadcasters before being sent to festivals. The company then had to write to the Busan festival organizers and ask for its withdrawal. The department has also asked the company to explain why the film had been produced by foreigners without getting the script approved as required by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Developed from the critically acclaimed short film "4:30 p.m.", which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, "Rom" is about a teenage boy named Rom who lives in a slum in Saigon and buys lottery tickets for people in the neighborhood. His aim is to collect enough money to find his parents, who had abandoned him as a child. "Rom" was entered in the New Currents category, … [Read more...] about Vietnamese movie withdrawn from Busan International Film Festival

An exhibition is underway in Hanoi, displaying over 50 photos, documents and items reflecting the old Vietnamese education and examinations. An exhibition is underway in Hanoi, displaying over 50 photos, documents and items reflecting the old Vietnamese education and examinations The exhibition, entitled “Former Vietnamese Education and Examinations through Documentary Heritages of the World”, was launched by the State Records and Archives Department at Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) – Quoc Tu Giam (First National University) complex on March 5. The month-long event exhibits photos, documents and items obtained from three world documentary heritages of Vietnam – Woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802 – 1945), Imperial Archives of the Nguyen Dynasty, and stone stele records of imperial examinations at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam. The exhibition consists of three sections, including one to introduce the history of Vietnam’s education and … [Read more...] about Old Vietnamese education, imperial examinations on spotlight

Samsung Viet Nam delegates visit An Trung Industries Company Limited. — Photo courtesy of Samsung Samsung Viet Nam's leadership visited six Vietnamese enterprises as part of a consultancy programme led by Samsung's South Korean experts on Thursday. The companies involved were Fitek Vietnam Joint Stock Company, Hanoi Plastic Joint Stock Company and An Trung Industries Company Limited from the north, and Lidovit Trading and Industrial Joint Stock Company, Ton Dong A Joint Stock Company and Phuong Yen Company Limited from the south. The assessment was part of a 12-week Samsung programme to support Vietnamese enterprises involved in its component and accessory supply chain. South Korean experts have surveyed and assessed businesses over the course of two weeks and then worked with them for the next 10 weeks to improve the production process to comply with standards for Samsung's factories in Viet Nam. “After consulting sessions, witnessing companies implementing numerous … [Read more...] about Samsung helps Vietnamese firms enhance competitiveness

Scientists from Vietnam and NASA are working on a joint project to monitor Southeast Asian land use, local media have reported from an ongoing conference attended by 60 scientists. The “Land Use Status, Change and Impacts in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos” project aims to build a quantitative database on land coverage and land use, and to create maps on the changing populations and the demography in the Southeast Asian nations. NASA would provide scientists with data retrieved from its satellites to help assess regional land use and its changes. Nghiem Van Son, a senior researcher from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and one of the project’s founders, said that data retrieved from satellites will help create a comprehensive picture of Vietnam’s landmass so that scientists can monitor the entire area instead of having to rely on individual reports, Vietnam News Agency reported. Quantitative research, including the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese scientists look to the skies with NASA on observation project

More than 700 Japanese candidates on June 23 registered for the third Vietnamese-language proficiency test held by the Japan College of Foreign Languages in Tokyo. Vietnam becomes fastest growing tourism market of Japan Vietnam was the fastest growing tourism market of Japan with rise of 125.9 percent in 2018, according to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)’s 2019 white paper on tourism. Japanese researcher fond of catholic heritages of Vietnam Japanese researcher Tomoharu Katano conducted surveys on over 1,200 ancient churches in Vietnam hoping to help people gain a better understanding of the construction’s values for proper preservation. Japanese capital inflow’s new trend After five years of decline, Vietnam’s processing and manufacturing sector has begun to receive a substantial volume of investment capital from Japanese enterprises. … [Read more...] about 700 Japanese register for Vietnamese-language proficiency test