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FRANCE'S UNIVERSITY HELPS HOLD TRAINING
COURSE ON PHOTO-JOURNALISM
Ha Noi, Aug. 23 (VNA) -- A training course on
photo-journalism was
started in Ho Chi Minh City today (Aug. 23) by the Viet
Nam Journalists'
Association, the French Embassy and Lille University.
The course, the first of its kind held in the south, is
part of the
long-term cooperation programme between the Viet
Nam Journalists'
Association and Lille University.
Prof. Jean Marc Vantournhoudt gives lessons at the
course which
sees the attendance of 15 journalists in southern
provinces.
He earlier took charge of five other courses with the
same purpose in
Ha Noi and northern provinces.--VNA
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VIET NAM TOPIC TAKES UP ASIAN ESPERANTO
CONGRESS'S
3RD WORKING DAY
Ha Noi, Aug. 25 (VNA) -- Under the theme "Viet Nam
Day", the
ongoing Asian Esperanto Congress in Ha Noi entered
its third working
day on Aug. 24 focusing on Viet Nam's renovation
progress and its
external policies.
Huu Tho, member of the Communist Party of Viet
Nam Central
Committee and Director of its Commission for Ideology
and Culture,
said at the four-day congress that the fact that Viet Nam
has managed
to maintain its political stability and socio-economic
growth amid the
region's worst financial crisis has been a sign of its
successful
renovation efforts during the past 13 years.
While pushing the renovation process toward a
multi-sectoral
economy along the socialist line, he stressed, Viet Nam
has also paid
attention to developing its culture with a national
identity.
The congress also heard a report by Pham Van
Chuong, Deputy
Director of the Party CC Commission for External
Relations, on Viet
Nam's foreign policy based on the principle of
independence,
sovereignty, openness and multilateralisation and
diversification. Under
this policy, Viet Nam wants to befriend all nations in
the world striving
for peace, independence and development, Chuong
said.
The same day, Pham Loi Chairman of the Ha Noi
People's Council,
gave a reception in honour of the delegates to the
congress. Speaking
on this occasion, Loi highly valued the decision to
convene the
congress in Ha Noi, which has just been recognised as
"City for Peace"
by the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation.
He wished the congress success, thus contributing to
promoting the
cooperative and friendly ties between Viet Nam and
other nations in the
world for peace, stability and development.
World Esperanto Association Chairman Kep Enderby
and Asian
Esperanto Movement Committee President Purama
Chong both
expressed thanks to the Vietnamese State and the Ha
Noi
administration for creating favourable conditions for the
congress.
Also on Aug. 24, Nguyen Chi Vu, Chairman of the
Viet Nam Union of
Friendship Organisations, presented the Friendship
Order on G.
Kunosi and F. Olivan, Esperanto activists from Japan
and Spain
respectively, and the Friendship Medal on Lee Chong
Yong from the
Republic of Korea, for their contributions to the peace
and
independence movement in Viet Nam.
On this occasion, the Viet Nam Esperanto
Organisation awarded
Certificates of Honour to Kep Enderby, Purama Chong
and other
leaders of the Esperanto Movement, and the Friendship
Banners to
their international Esperanto organisations.
Nearly 500 delegates to the congress attended in a
cultural exchange
evening in Ha Noi on Aug. 24.
The congress is to close today, Aug. 25, after four
days' sitting.--VNA
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DRUG ABUSE IN HO CHI MINH CITY AND HOA BINH
PROVINCE
Ha Noi, Aug. 25 (VNA) -- The number of drug
addicts in Ho Chi Minh
City now stands at 16,798, 4,000 more than the 1998
figure. Drug
addicts under the age of 30 accounts for 70 percent of
the city's total.
The Viet Nam Fatherland Front Committee in the city
has conducted a
survey on drug abuse and reviewed anti-drug prevention
in 11 precincts
and districts.
The committee has coordinated with the police,
grassroots mass
organizations and flat-dweller groups to raise people's
awareness on
the harm of drug abuse and measures to prevent and
fight it. They have
also organized campaigns to remove drug dens and
intensify efforts in
controlling drug abuse.
The committee has provided counselling for drug
addicts, help them
kick the habit and get jobs later.
- The Centre against Social Evil in the northern
province of Hoa Binh
has so far this year received 308 drug addicts for
treatment.
Patients will stay in the centre for from three to 12
months and will be
provided with job training.
To date, 286 drug addicts were cured successfully at
the centre.
The centre plans to receive more than 100 drug
addicts from now to
the end of the year.--VNA
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