Hue city to host national hip-hop contest; Cakes made for underprivileged; Music show to raise funds for Haiti; Korea’s Steel King pays a visit

The contest will see nearly 50 hip-hop crews from 15 cities and provinces in the country throw-down through five events featuring breaking, breaking team battle, new style battle, popping battle and power move battle.

The winning team will represent Viet Nam at an international hip-hop contest held in October in Hue City.

Cakes made for underprivileged

A record number of 1,000 banh chung (square sticky rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

Recipients will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other serious diseases.

The record-setting banh chung cake pot is part of the Merciful Tet programme to be held in Ha Noi from this Friday to Sunday with the support from non-governmental organisations in Viet Nam, the Ha Noi Society for Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS and a number of foreign embassies in Viet Nam.

The organisers expect that the programme will become an annual event for children nationwide.

Music show to raise funds for Haiti

A music show to raise funds for earthquake victims in Haiti will be held today, February 4, at Cinematheque, 22A Hai Ba Trung Street, Ha Noi.

With theme of “Ha Noi for Haiti”, the show will be joined by artists from various countries such as Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the US.

All money raised from selling tickets will be sent to Haiti via Avaaz.org, a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

Korea’s Steel King pays a visit

The novel The Man of Steel, Park Tae-joon by writer Lee Dae-hwan has been published by the Youth Publishing House.

This is the second translation of the book after debuting in Chinese in 2005. Since its release in 2004 the novel has remained popular in its native Korea.

The Man of Steel, Park Tae-joon, is a biography of ex-prime minister and honorary chairman of POSCO, Park Tae-joon. He is considered a Korean legend for transforming South Korea, a steel-barren country, into global steel powerhouse.

Exhibition on culture of Hre people

An exhibition on the culture of the Hre ethnic group has been opened in the Ba To Museum, Ba To District, in the central province of Quang Ngai.

The Hre’s life is represented through traditional stilt houses, cooking fires, furniture, musical instruments and everyday objects.

Traditional songs of the Hre will be performed at the museum for the younger generation to learn.

Visitors to the centre will also have the chance to enjoy traditional Hre cuisine such as ruou can (wine drunk from a jar through a pipe), baked buffalo meat, wild vegetables and fish.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News