Toyota awards HCMC scholarships

Japanese businesses grant 90 scholarships in HCMC

Toyota Vietnam Foundation (TVF) with founding members Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV), Ministry of Education and Training, and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded 37 scholarships at a ceremony in HCMC on Wednesday.

TVF will award over 140 scholarships worth a total of VND544 million at 16 universities around the country till Dec.17 for mechanical engineering, environment disciplines and scientific study groups. Last week TVF held handed out scholarships in Hanoi.

Individual students will receive VND3 million each, while study groups from each university will get VND10 million.

TMV will donate two Toyota Innova engines, 12 chassies and one transmission to 12 universities to be used to train students in mechanical engineering. The Toyota Scholarship program will also provides internships at the TMV plant and will send some businessmen and students to a Toyota course on manufacturing and business.

Since 1997, Toyota Scholarship Program has encouraged research and study in Vietnam universities by providing nearly 1,400 scholarships.

*The Japanese Business Association of HCMC and Japan Business Federation on Wednesday granted 90 scholarships to students from HCMC-based University of Social Sciences and Humanity and University of Technology.

Each scholarship from the Japan-Vietnam human resources development program is worth VND2 million. Since it started in 2002, the program has donated 914 scholarships in the two universities.

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Toyota awards HCMC scholarships

Japanese businesses grant 90 scholarships in HCMC

Toyota Vietnam Foundation (TVF) with founding members Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV), Ministry of Education and Training, and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded 37 scholarships at a ceremony in HCMC on Wednesday.

TVF will award over 140 scholarships worth a total of VND544 million at 16 universities around the country till Dec.17 for mechanical engineering, environment disciplines and scientific study groups. Last week TVF held handed out scholarships in Hanoi.

Individual students will receive VND3 million each, while study groups from each university will get VND10 million.

TMV will donate two Toyota Innova engines, 12 chassies and one transmission to 12 universities to be used to train students in mechanical engineering. The Toyota Scholarship program will also provides internships at the TMV plant and will send some businessmen and students to a Toyota course on manufacturing and business.

Since 1997, Toyota Scholarship Program has encouraged research and study in Vietnam universities by providing nearly 1,400 scholarships.

*The Japanese Business Association of HCMC and Japan Business Federation on Wednesday granted 90 scholarships to students from HCMC-based University of Social Sciences and Humanity and University of Technology.

Each scholarship from the Japan-Vietnam human resources development program is worth VND2 million. Since it started in 2002, the program has donated 914 scholarships in the two universities.

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Toyota awards HCMC scholarships

Japanese businesses grant 90 scholarships in HCMC

Toyota Vietnam Foundation (TVF) with founding members Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV), Ministry of Education and Training, and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded 37 scholarships at a ceremony in HCMC on Wednesday.

TVF will award over 140 scholarships worth a total of VND544 million at 16 universities around the country till Dec.17 for mechanical engineering, environment disciplines and scientific study groups. Last week TVF held handed out scholarships in Hanoi.

Individual students will receive VND3 million each, while study groups from each university will get VND10 million.

TMV will donate two Toyota Innova engines, 12 chassies and one transmission to 12 universities to be used to train students in mechanical engineering. The Toyota Scholarship program will also provides internships at the TMV plant and will send some businessmen and students to a Toyota course on manufacturing and business.

Since 1997, Toyota Scholarship Program has encouraged research and study in Vietnam universities by providing nearly 1,400 scholarships.

*The Japanese Business Association of HCMC and Japan Business Federation on Wednesday granted 90 scholarships to students from HCMC-based University of Social Sciences and Humanity and University of Technology.

Each scholarship from the Japan-Vietnam human resources development program is worth VND2 million. Since it started in 2002, the program has donated 914 scholarships in the two universities.

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The home of Uncle Ho’s father

Life size models of carpenters in Hoa An ancient village at the new Nguyen Sinh Sac Tourist Area

To mark 81 years since the death of Nguyen Sinh Sac (1862-1929), the father of the late Vietnamese President, Ho chi Minh, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has inaugurated the Nguyen Sinh Sac Tourist Area in Cao Lanh City.

The area, which was expanded to 9.3 hectares from 3.6 hectares at a cost of VND5 billion, has Vietnamese culture and history displays and an ancient village.

When completed the replica village will comprise nine wooden houses built in traditional southern style. Displays will include palm leaf weaving, metal forge and carpentry, all jobs that Nguyen Sinh Sac did in Dong Thap.

The village will also feature canals, rows of coconut trees, vegetable farms, cornfield and sugarcane.

Dang Van Hoang, director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Dong Thap Province, said the village will open for tourists in mid-2011 adding that visitors would be able to participate in traditional farming and learn about southern culture.

In 1917, Nguyen Sinh Sac came to Hoa An Village to teach and give medical treatment to local residents. He joined the revolutionary activities till he died in 1929.

A canal along wooden houses in the tourist area - Photos: Uyen Vien

A corner of the Hoa An ancient village

Young men join a chicken fight

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The home of Uncle Ho’s father

Life size models of carpenters in Hoa An ancient village at the new Nguyen Sinh Sac Tourist Area

To mark 81 years since the death of Nguyen Sinh Sac (1862-1929), the father of the late Vietnamese President, Ho chi Minh, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has inaugurated the Nguyen Sinh Sac Tourist Area in Cao Lanh City.

The area, which was expanded to 9.3 hectares from 3.6 hectares at a cost of VND5 billion, has Vietnamese culture and history displays and an ancient village.

When completed the replica village will comprise nine wooden houses built in traditional southern style. Displays will include palm leaf weaving, metal forge and carpentry, all jobs that Nguyen Sinh Sac did in Dong Thap.

The village will also feature canals, rows of coconut trees, vegetable farms, cornfield and sugarcane.

Dang Van Hoang, director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Dong Thap Province, said the village will open for tourists in mid-2011 adding that visitors would be able to participate in traditional farming and learn about southern culture.

In 1917, Nguyen Sinh Sac came to Hoa An Village to teach and give medical treatment to local residents. He joined the revolutionary activities till he died in 1929.

A canal along wooden houses in the tourist area - Photos: Uyen Vien

A corner of the Hoa An ancient village

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Legend Metropole Hanoi ranked in top four

International travel journalists and tourism experts have voted the 109-year-old Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi in the top four urban hotels in the world in the Fifth Annual Hotel and Resort Survey of Cigar Aficionado.

The 364-room hotel was ranked after Four Seasons George V in Paris but on par with the Peninsula in Hong Kong and the Oriental in Bangkok by the jury of people from Virtuoso, CBS News, Forbes Life, National Geographic, travel agents and operators.

It is one of 21 awards that the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has won in 2010, a record for the luxury hotel on Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District in the capital city.

“Really, in the hotel’s long history, this year has been unprecedented,” said Kai Speth, general manager of the hotel. “With recent accolades from such prestigious publications as Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and from organizations like PATA, we’ve been moved to a new echelon entirely.”

Besides being honored as one of the world’s top four city hotels, the prestigious North American lifestyle magazine also trumpeted the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi as one of Southeast Asia’s top three hotels, together with the Peninsula in Hong Kong and Oriental in Bangkok.

Cigar Aficionado, which is popular in the United States and claims a readership of 1.9 million, commented that “If you’re going to stay in a colonial grand hotel, you have to pull out all the stops. The Metropole does that and has a perfectly central location.”

Speth named two deciding factors behind the hotel’s international recognition as the owners recently concluded a US$25 million refurbishment that balanced the hotel’s storied heritage with room enhancements, an avant-garde new restaurant, Angelina, and a spa, the first in its history.

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Legend Metropole Hanoi ranked in top four

International travel journalists and tourism experts have voted the 109-year-old Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi in the top four urban hotels in the world in the Fifth Annual Hotel and Resort Survey of Cigar Aficionado.

The 364-room hotel was ranked after Four Seasons George V in Paris but on par with the Peninsula in Hong Kong and the Oriental in Bangkok by the jury of people from Virtuoso, CBS News, Forbes Life, National Geographic, travel agents and operators.

It is one of 21 awards that the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has won in 2010, a record for the luxury hotel on Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District in the capital city.

“Really, in the hotel’s long history, this year has been unprecedented,” said Kai Speth, general manager of the hotel. “With recent accolades from such prestigious publications as Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and from organizations like PATA, we’ve been moved to a new echelon entirely.”

Besides being honored as one of the world’s top four city hotels, the prestigious North American lifestyle magazine also trumpeted the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi as one of Southeast Asia’s top three hotels, together with the Peninsula in Hong Kong and Oriental in Bangkok.

Cigar Aficionado, which is popular in the United States and claims a readership of 1.9 million, commented that “If you’re going to stay in a colonial grand hotel, you have to pull out all the stops. The Metropole does that and has a perfectly central location.”

Speth named two deciding factors behind the hotel’s international recognition as the owners recently concluded a US$25 million refurbishment that balanced the hotel’s storied heritage with room enhancements, an avant-garde new restaurant, Angelina, and a spa, the first in its history.

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