A love story between a soldier and his young girlfriend during the Việt Nam-American War received the first prize at a writing contest titled ''Love in War'' on December 16 in Hà Nội.
The Embassy of Germany to Việt Nam is inviting entries to a writing contest for female Vietnamese students with the winner being offered a ''job'' for a day working as an ambassador.
The Embassy of Israel in Viet Nam will host the photo exhibition "Writing with Light" by Ziv Koren, one of Israel''s most highly regarded photographers.
Truong Hai Nam, an eighth grader from Le Huu Lap
secondary school in Thanh Hoa province, won the 44th Universal Postal
Union (UPU)''s International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People
in Viet Nam.
Literary works by 18 young writers submitted to a writing contest
organised by three prestigious national organisations have received a
warm response from readers. These high-quality works were the final contributions from th
Veteran literary critic Pham Xuan Nguyen has called for more recognition
from culture authorities and writers for online writing, which is
attracting a fresh wave of young followers.
Do Ngoc Quynh Nhu, a first-year student at the private University of
Saigon, has won the first prize in a writing contest on Vietnamese
soldiers held by the HCM City Youth Union.
A contest for writing and photography about the establishment and
development of South Sai Gon will be held by Tan Thuan Industrial
Promotion Company Ltd (IPC).
Mikhail Samarsky is something of a wunderkind. Now 17, he began writing
when he was only 12 years old, beginning with two books on the visually
impaired that have been translated into Vietnamese.
Young people up to the age of 15 are invited to participate in the 42nd
International Letter-Writing Competition with the theme "Why water is
such a precious resource," launched by the Universal Postal Union.
A writing contest that aimed to find potential
writers and develop a reading culture among young Vietnamese ended
yesterday in Ha Noi. The theme of the contest was memories of school and
childhood.
