Hoang Gia Ngoc selected for Manhunt

Hoang Gia Ngoc flies to Taiwan on Thursday to represent Vietnam - Photo: Courtesy of Elite Vietnam Entertainment Group

Supermodel Hoang Gia Ngoc will represent Vietnam at the world-wide search for best male model, Manhunt International 2010, in Taizhong, Taiwan, November 10-22.

The Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism approved the 24-year-old, 1.84m tall, Ngoc, who just won the silver prize at the Vietnam Supermodel contest in October.

Elite Vietnam Entertainment Group and Venus Model Agency will prepare costumes, necessary items and training for Ngoc to compete. He will depart for Taiwan on Thursday.

This year the contestant who has the highest vote at the website of the contest http://www.manhunt.com.sg/vote/vote.php will go straight to the final round.

The crowning night of Manhunt International 2010 will take place at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall of Tung Hai University in Taizhong, Taiwan.

Vietnam has taken part in the contest since 2002 with the participation of supermodel Binh Minh. Ngo Tien Doan who competed at the contest in 2007 brought home the title for the model with best body, while model Nguyen Van Thinh came second in the online vote in 2008.

The Manhunt Contest started off in 1987, when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore.

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Hoang Gia Ngoc selected for Manhunt

Hoang Gia Ngoc flies to Taiwan on Thursday to represent Vietnam - Photo: Courtesy of Elite Vietnam Entertainment Group

Supermodel Hoang Gia Ngoc will represent Vietnam at the world-wide search for best male model, Manhunt International 2010, in Taizhong, Taiwan, November 10-22.

The Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism approved the 24-year-old, 1.84m tall, Ngoc, who just won the silver prize at the Vietnam Supermodel contest in October.

Elite Vietnam Entertainment Group and Venus Model Agency will prepare costumes, necessary items and training for Ngoc to compete. He will depart for Taiwan on Thursday.

This year the contestant who has the highest vote at the website of the contest http://www.manhunt.com.sg/vote/vote.php will go straight to the final round.

The crowning night of Manhunt International 2010 will take place at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall of Tung Hai University in Taizhong, Taiwan.

Vietnam has taken part in the contest since 2002 with the participation of supermodel Binh Minh. Ngo Tien Doan who competed at the contest in 2007 brought home the title for the model with best body, while model Nguyen Van Thinh came second in the online vote in 2008.

The Manhunt Contest started off in 1987, when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore.

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Film producer to represent Vietnam at London Film Fest

The British Council Vietnam and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have announced the winner of this year’s Young Screen Entrepreneur.

The winner, Independent film producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, will represent Vietnam in London this month at the London Film Festival.

The producer of numerous award-winning television commercials, Ngoc has also worked on international feature productions with directors such as Phillip Noyce (Quiet American), Oliver Stone (Pinkville project), Hans Peter Moland (The Beautiful Country) and Tran Anh Hung (Vertical Ray of the Sun).

The first runner-up was Vu Manh Cuong, founder and director of Yxine Film Fest (YxineFF), the first online short film festival for the Vietnamese-speaking community at www.yxineff.com. He has also administrated the website www.yxine.com, a specialized film website featuring international and Vietnamese cinema with 20,000 members and countless non-members for the last 7 years.

The International Young Screen Entrepreneur award is part of the International Young Creative Entrepreneur award organized by the global British Council since 2004. The screen award ceremony will be held on Friday in HCMC.

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Pastry makers to meet in big bake-off

A local bakery company has organized a competition to find the best baker to represent Vietnam at the International Selection for Bakery World Cup - Louis Lesaffre Cup in France in 2012.

About 35 bakers from Big C, Sesame School, the Caravelle Hotel, the InterContinental Asiana Hotel, ABC Bakery, Hoa Sua Shool, the Melia Hotel Hanoi and the Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers among others will take part in the qualification round in the South on August 25 at the Sesame School and at Hoa Sua School in the North on August 28.

The city’s top bakers will compete in three categories including Bread, Viennese pastry and artistic piece at the contest organized by Saf Viet Company under Lesaffre Group.

Twelve bakers from the qualification round will go through to the finals in December.

The three best will represent Vietnam at the Asian qualification round in Guangzhou, China in May, 2011. 

Created in 2003, the Louis Lesaffre Cup is part of a cycle of competitions (national and international selection rounds), the high point of which is the Bakery World Cup. The Louis Lesaffre Cup is open to professional bakers between the ages of 18 and 55.

The second edition of the Louis Lesaffre Cup in 2006 had representatives from 40 countries, with 90 selection rounds and a total of 6,000 candidates.

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