Teens learn finance at UKAV seminar

The U.K Alumni Association Vietnam (UKAV) will host a seminar called “Financial Literacy 14 (For Teens)” at the Multimedia Room of Tran Dai Nghia High School, 20 Ly Tu Trong Street, HCMC’s District 1 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on November 13.

Finance has always been a popular student career choice, while the rapid development of credit and investment products creates endless opportunities and financial risks. To keep young people at pace with the financial environment, the seminar will teach personal financial management skills including personal investments, savings, and budgeting using a clear-structured, easy-to-understand approach. UKAV will present the first seminar in a series that will introduce basic finance definitions and aspects of finance.

Speakers from UKAV Education Fund and top professionals in Vietnamese finance and banking will share their entrepreneurial experience. They include Nguyen Hoai Anh, vice chairman of Amigo Investment Holdings and CEO of INB Financials, and Vo Sang Xuan Vinh-CFA, CEO of Saigon Capital, former Country Manager of Aureos Capital.

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Teens learn finance at UKAV seminar

The U.K Alumni Association Vietnam (UKAV) will host a seminar called “Financial Literacy 14 (For Teens)” at the Multimedia Room of Tran Dai Nghia High School, 20 Ly Tu Trong Street, HCMC’s District 1 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on November 13.

Finance has always been a popular student career choice, while the rapid development of credit and investment products creates endless opportunities and financial risks. To keep young people at pace with the financial environment, the seminar will teach personal financial management skills including personal investments, savings, and budgeting using a clear-structured, easy-to-understand approach. UKAV will present the first seminar in a series that will introduce basic finance definitions and aspects of finance.

Speakers from UKAV Education Fund and top professionals in Vietnamese finance and banking will share their entrepreneurial experience. They include Nguyen Hoai Anh, vice chairman of Amigo Investment Holdings and CEO of INB Financials, and Vo Sang Xuan Vinh-CFA, CEO of Saigon Capital, former Country Manager of Aureos Capital.

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Cinemas expect end of year movie madness

Movie theaters are expecting good crowds for November and December when they screen new Vietnamese and American releases.

The success of Floating Lives raised cinema’s expectations for the Christmas period. The movie, filmed in Dong Thap Province, had a VND10 billion box office in the first 12 days of screening

“When a Vietnamese film with a good screenplay comes out, it shows that local audiences haven’t turned their back on homegrown movies,” Tran Nhut Anh Loan, operations manager of Saigon Movies Media, said.

Although Floating Lives wasn’t released for the holiday or Tet  crowds and had some poor reviews, the film became a phenomenon at the ticket booth. “The success of this film erased the attitude that Vietnamese movies only survive thanks to Tet holiday,” said Ho Hoang Khanh Vy, representative of BHD Star Cinema Co. Ltd. 

Another Vietnamese movie which excelled this year was Fool for Love produced by Early Riser and Wonder Boy Entertainment and directed by Charlie Nguyen. It earned VND3 billion after three days screening.

A new Vietnamese history movie called Aspiration of Thang Long will be released at the end of this year. The movie is about the great founder Ly Cong Uan, who moved the capital from the ancient Hoa Lu citadel to Thang Long (Hanoi). This film will show at Megastar cinemas nationwide from November 12. 

The success of the blockbuster Avatar that earned US$1.5 million in Vietnam started a new era in 3D movies. Megastar Media Co. Ltd. recently added three more 3D cinemas to its lineup making a total of eight. Galaxy Studio JSC also has three 3D screens in HCMC. Saigon Movies Media, BHD Star Cinema have also opened screens.

Megastar brought eleven 3D movies to its cinemas in the last year with two more to come before the Christmas: Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Tron Legacy. BHD Star Cinema will show the 3D movie Street Dance at cinemas nationwide.  

Other Hollywood titles to come this year are: Skyline, The Next Three Days, Paranormal Activity 2, Detective D, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Unstoppable.

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German youth choir sing for Hanoi

Koreans bring memory of love to Vietnam

The youth choir from Germany’s Wernigerode Radio will perform two nights of November 10-11 at the Hanoi Youth Theater at 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street as part of German Year in Vietnam 2010.

In the first part of the program, the choir will perform two German folk songs, three modern works and two classics. In the second half they will choir will play folk and spiritual songs of five countries including France, Germany, Russia, the U.S. and Japan and North America

The choir has 35 members from 15 to 18. Since its establishment in 1951, the Wernigerode Radio Choir has recorded over 30 CDs and performed in many television programs and films. They were awarded best German choir.

Tickets are available at the Goethe Institute at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi. For further information, contact the institute at 04 3734 2251/52/53 ext. 9.

*The Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam will host an opera called “Memory of love – Orpheo” at the Au Co Performing Arts Center, 8 Huynh Thuc Khang Street in Hanoi at 7:30 p.m. on November 11.

“Memory of love – Orpheo” will be performed by artists from Seoul Performing Arts Center (SPAC). It’s a love story of two dancers, Dong Wook and Uri. They almost lose their relationship but memories and promises make them fall in love again.

The opera combines touching memories with melodies. The fusion of Korean traditional dance with contemporary jazz dance creates emotion and gives an insight into Korean arts and culture.

The opera has been organized to mark the success of ASEAN+3 Summit in Hanoi Free tickets are available at Korean Cultural Center at 49 Nguyen Du Street in Hanoi from November 9.

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German youth choir sing for Hanoi

Koreans bring memory of love to Vietnam

The youth choir from Germany’s Wernigerode Radio will perform two nights of November 10-11 at the Hanoi Youth Theater at 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street as part of German Year in Vietnam 2010.

In the first part of the program, the choir will perform two German folk songs, three modern works and two classics. In the second half they will choir will play folk and spiritual songs of five countries including France, Germany, Russia, the U.S. and Japan and North America

The choir has 35 members from 15 to 18. Since its establishment in 1951, the Wernigerode Radio Choir has recorded over 30 CDs and performed in many television programs and films. They were awarded best German choir.

Tickets are available at the Goethe Institute at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi. For further information, contact the institute at 04 3734 2251/52/53 ext. 9.

*The Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam will host an opera called “Memory of love – Orpheo” at the Au Co Performing Arts Center, 8 Huynh Thuc Khang Street in Hanoi at 7:30 p.m. on November 11.

“Memory of love – Orpheo” will be performed by artists from Seoul Performing Arts Center (SPAC). It’s a love story of two dancers, Dong Wook and Uri. They almost lose their relationship but memories and promises make them fall in love again.

The opera combines touching memories with melodies. The fusion of Korean traditional dance with contemporary jazz dance creates emotion and gives an insight into Korean arts and culture.

The opera has been organized to mark the success of ASEAN+3 Summit in Hanoi Free tickets are available at Korean Cultural Center at 49 Nguyen Du Street in Hanoi from November 9.

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BHD Star Cinema sponsors online film contest

The online competition website for Vietnamese independent short-film makers, www.yxineff.com, announced BHD Co. Ltd as its official partner.

BHD Star Cinema will sponsor five individual awards for the yxineff film festival. In November, YxineFF will screen films at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday. 

Yxine Film Fest started taking short film submissions in May with judging to be decided by the end of the year. The online film festival and forum aims to create a community for independent movie makers to meet and share experience with each other to develop Vietnam cinema. YxineFF‘s creators expect to extend the film festival to Vietnamese around the world and open more categories for the international movies. 

BHD has been a supporter of Vietnamese cinema since it opened in August. The cinema has a special area for Vietnamese film memorabilia and has cooperated with YxineFF to host discussions with cinematographers and introduce movies by young filmmakers.   

YxineFF’s partners Saigon Movies Media, Galaxy Studio and BHD Star Cinema sponsor the Golden Heart award, the Red Heart award and five other individual awards for best director, best screenplay writer, best cinematographer, best editor and best actor. 

YxineFF was created by Marcus Manh Cuong Vu. Vu is a teaching assistant and researcher at Hamburg University in Germany. In December, he won first runner-up of the British Council International Young Screen Entrepreneur award.

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Local movie director to be honored in Hollywood

Director Dang Nhat Minh (L) delivers a speech after receiving Best director for 2009’s Don’t Burn (Dung dot) - Photo: TTXVN

A ceremony to honor People’s Artist/director Dang Nhat Minh and a Vietnam Film Week featuring movies by  young Vietnamese directors will be held on Wednesday in Hollywood, reports Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper.

“Mua oi” (Guava season) will be screened after the ceremony and the director will have a roundtable with audiences and people in the movie industry, the organizers, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), said.

AMPAS will also introduce all the movies directed by Dang Nhat Minh to American audiences to honor the talented director.

People’s Artist Dang Nhat Minh is one the leading directors in Vietnam. His works including Co gai tren song (A girl on a river), Ha Noi mua dong nam 46 (Hanoi - Winter of 1946), Thuong nho dong que (Nostalgia for Countryside) and Dung dot (Don’t Burn) have left a deep impression on local and international audiences and awarded at national and international film festivals. Among them, the 2009 movie “Don’t Burn” received audience choice award at Fukuoka International Film Festival in Japan and took three Golden Lotus awards for best movie, best script-writer and journalists’ choice at the 16th Vietnam Film Festival in 2009 and six Golden Kite awards in 2010.

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