Showing posts with label Saigon Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saigon Foundation. Show all posts

Friday, February 18, 2011

New book traces last decade of Vietnam’s development

A new book called Vietnam tu nam 2011 – Vuot lens u nghiet nga cua thoi gian is a compilation of articles by Tran Van Tho
The Saigon Times Foundation has released a new book that tracks the country’s development since the late 1990s through newspaper and magazine articles by Prof. Tran Van Tho from Waseda University, Japan.

Tri Thuc Publishing House published the book Vietnam tu nam 2011 – Vuot len su nghiet nga cua thoi gian (Vietnam from 2011 – overcoming the cruelty of time) which contains nearly 50 of the professor’s articles in Vietnamese that have been published, mostly in Thoi bao Kinh te Sai Gon published by Saigon Times Group.

The compiled articles express the writer’s hopes over the past decade that Vietnam would regain the time it had lost and catch up with the developed world.

Tran Van Tho, a researcher on Vietnam’s economy, education, culture and society, theorizes about national policy and discusses the hot issues here and globally. Articles include: From the Quang Trung spring to the twentieth century; Establishment Nguyen Trai spirit in Viet-Trung economic tie, Express railway: Vietnam on Thursday and Japan 50 years ago.

The printing costs were sponsored by Trung Nguyen Coffee Company. It has 362 pages and costs VND89,000. All proceeds from book sales will be used by the Saigon Times Foundation to grant scholarships for students in Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province, where the writer went to highschool.

To buy it, contact the reader relations department of Saigon Times Group at 3821 0019, email: phathanh@thesaigontimes.vn or Miss Hoang Tuyen of the Saigon Times Foundation at 3740 2712.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Scholarship winners meet STF director

Le Ngoc Hong Ha (C), director of the Saigon Times Foundation, talks with STF’s long-term scholarship recipients in HCMC last week - Photo: Hai Yen
Le Ngoc Hong Ha, director of the Saigon Times Foundation under the Saigon Times Group last week met with 35 students who won STF long-term scholarships.

A student of HCMC University of Economics, Nguyen Kieu My Trang, said at the event, “I was born in a central province that is prone to natural disasters, so I feel very lucky to receive the STF scholarship. It will help me to continue my study so I would like to contribute some of my time to STF to help the community and my compatriots in central provinces.”

The STF director talked about two new books in the Knowledge Bookcase: “Cac khai niem co ban ve Kinh te” (Basic concepts on economics) compiled by lecturers of Fulbright Economics Teaching Program and “Ky thuat ghep gen, mot cong nghe hang dau cua the ky 21” (Gene transplant, a leading technology in the 21st century) by overseas Vietnamese doctor, Trang Quan Sen.

STF gave students some books from its Knowledge Bookcase to sell to raise money to stock school libraries in the Central.

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