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A Hanoi view with some corners of Long Bien bridge.

Long Bien bridge. View from Long Bien district.

Red river.

A small floating village on Red river, under Long Bien bridge.

Foreigners come and see Long Bien bridge.

Long Bien bridge. View from the floating village.

(Photos: Happy N.)

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There is a new area in Saigon, closed off to motorbikes, where artists and creative minds from different disciplines as well as businesses come together. This is the idea sketched out so far behind the still developing 3A Station (Alternative Art Area), located in 3A Ton Duc Thang in District 1.

3A is a 2000 square meter space in which three abandoned warehouses are being refurbished and converted into ‘spaces’ for galleries, shopping areas, consignment warehouses and coffee shops. In addition, the courtyard as well as other units will be used to host art activities and performances for the community, ranging from live music to fashion shows.

(Source: Hanoi Grapevine)

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30 May is deadline to apply for funding from UNESCO with the amount of assistance from US $20,000 to US $100,000

The projects’ priority is given to:

- projects submitted by young creators aged 18 to 30 years and to projects aimed at benefitting youth;

- project contributes to gender equality;

- project aims to promote forms of expression that, despite their value to the community or country of origin, are relatively under-represented on the global arts scene and therefore deserve support;

- project aims to promote peace, social stability and cultural diversity.

And priority shall be given, as far as possible, to requests from or benefiting countries on the latest DAC List of Official Development Assistance Recipients.

Are you an artist or creator? An NGO or a non-profit private or public body, whose activities contribute to the promotion of culture and artistic creation? If your project is compliant with the criteria indicated in the Operational Guidelines of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC), you can submit your project application and be considered in order to benefit from the financial support of the Fund. The amount of assistance required is between US $20,000 and US $100,000 and covers no more than 80% of the total project budget.

(Source: http://hanoigrapevine.com)

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Are you preparing a travel ?

Internet can help you so much.

Let come to the Google. It helps you to find webs of travel, flights, weather and other information. The webs has already transformed the way many of us choose our holidays: rather than going to travel agents, we use their online sites, or dispense with travel agents altogether by putting together our own tailormade holidays with cheap online flights and hotel bookings.

As with everything on the web, you have to use your common sense when chatting to strangers and reading "impartial reviews" - but generally the community is very self-regulating.

Internet is a good fellow-traveller.

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The U.S. Embassy inVietnamis announcing the Fulbright Vietnamese Student Scholarship Program for the academic year 2015-2016.

Established in 1946 and funded by the U.S. Congress, the Fulbright Program aims at achieving mutual understanding through academic and cultural exchange. The Fulbright Vietnamese Student Program is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program which recruits and nominates young Vietnamese professionals for Master’s degree programs atU.S.universities. Approximately 20 to 25 fully-funded scholarships are granted on an annual basis. Since 1992, more than 500 Vietnamese students have been selected to participate in the Program.

What does the Scholarship provide? Successful candidates will pursue a Master’s degree program that begins in the academic year 2015-2016. The Fulbright Program will arrange placement at universities in theUnited States. Successful candidates will receive a full scholarship which covers tuition and fees, monthly stipend, round-trip airfare to theU.S.and health insurance.

Please see details at: http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/fvst.html

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Internet is bringing new opportunities in Myanmar.

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Internet bring new opportunities of business.  

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Internet bring new ideas to painters

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Internet bring new opportunities to handicraftsmen

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I would like have some wishes and words to every woman and will become women in the world.

For the women: I wish every one will be successful, happy and beautiful. And I want to say that I am very proud of binge a girl and in the future I will become a woman like you. I’d like to be kind, lovely, and successful like all of you.

For everyone who will become women. I and you just like others, we will become women. So I wish that “my friends” always are good children to your mothers. And you will become good mothers in the future.

Love to everyone.

Author: Nguyen Ha Vi

Editor: Teacher Lan Anh

Wider world Language Center, http://widerworld.edu.vn

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