Profiles

A defiant musicologist
04/04/2009 05:00
Vu Ba Pho’s mind often travels back to when he was just an eight year old boy. It was then that his parents sowed the seeds of his love affair with traditional music by giving him a dan nguyet (mandolin). Vu Ba Pho’s mind often travels back...
Sculptor hands craft to new generation
28/03/2009 05:00
Veteran artists teach the young how to uphold the village’s traditional craft, which their ancestors sweated to preserve. Nguyen Van Cung’s family have been sculpting for generations. Now he is preparing to pass the baton onto the next...
Eight-year-old crowned king of chess
27/03/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Minh Thang’s win at the World Youth Champs last year put capital chess back in the spotlight after nearly a decade of drought. After nearly a decade of silence, Ha Noi chess returned to its place in the spotlight...
“Sowing” Vietnamese language in the US
27/03/2009 05:00
Thanks to his prestige and effort, Professor Dr. Ngo Nhu Binh has brought the Vietnamese language to the same level with Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages at the linguistics faculty of the Harvard University and other universities in the US....
Artist builds stepping stones to success
27/03/2009 05:00
Le Nguyen Vy hopes his art will be remembered forever, his chosen medium is certainly durable – Vy was one of the first artists in the country to superimpose photographs on stone. Artist Le Nguyen Vy in his workshop. The artist had to...
Poet loves Vietnamese poems
14/03/2009 05:00
John Balaban has been known among American poets as one whose many works are best-sellers. These books are not about America, but of his English translations of wellknown Vietnamese poems. J ohn Balaban has been known among American poets as...
Red-headed crane doctor
14/03/2009 05:00
That is the nickname photographers in the Mekong Delta call doctor, photographer Doan Hong from Dong Thap province, who has a strange passion for red-headed cranes. Doan Hong (photo) is an amateur photographer who got involved in...