Huge numbers of visitors flocked to Huong Pagoda on its festival opening day on February 10 or the sixth day of the lunar year, causing congestion for the pagoda’s cable car system. Crowds rushed to the pagoda from the early morning. According to the festival organisers, roughly 80,000 people have visited the pagoda since the Lunar New Year. On the festival opening day, the cable car system to Huong Tich Cave faced serious jams as thousands of people queued to wait for their turn. Staff carefully instructed people onto the cable cars. The pagoda entrance prices remained the same, but cable car return ticket increased by VND20,000. Hot weather left many tired. Some people sought to move to lanes which had fewer people to get their tickets more quickly … [Read more...] about Huong Pagoda jammed on festival opening day
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50,000 pilgrims visit Huong Pagoda on festival’s opening day
Tens of thousands of devout Vietnamese flocked to the Huong Son complex on Sunday, the first day of the Huong Pagoda festival. The Huong Pagoda, in Huong Son Commune, Hanoi's rural district of My Duc, is a collection of many temples and pagodas built amidst mountains and forests. Every year, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, February 10 this year, the three-month Huong Pagoda festival opens. The festival, one of the grandest religious festivals in the country, attracts hundreds of thousands of Buddhists in the early days of the Lunar New Year. From early Sunday morning, the entrance to Thien Tru Pagoda, one of the main pagodas in the religious complex, was overflowing with people. This year, in an effort to ensure security and manage the place better, the organizing committee has not allowed business booths in the temple, caves, on narrow roads and at the Nam Thien Mon Gate. "This year, the festival’s opening day is still a public holiday, and the weather is … [Read more...] about 50,000 pilgrims visit Huong Pagoda on festival’s opening day
First Vietnam university opens int’l cooperation office in Japan
The Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University (FTU) inaugurated an office for international cooperation in Japan on November 14, the first of its kind set up by a Vietnamese university in the northeast Asian country. FTU Rector Bui Anh Tuan (R) and MF Chairman Sugiyama (Source: VNA) The inauguration is part of cooperation between the FTU and the Minami Fuji Co. Ltd (MF). In their speeches, FTU Rector Bui Anh Tuan and MF Chairman Sugiyama reviewed the two sides’ cooperation since 2014 via the Global Management College (GMC) programme, which provides high-level human resources training for companies around the world. The GMC has invited famous speakers to talk to FTU lecturers and students and Vietnamese firms about business practice and economic development prospects. MF has also assisted the FTU in encouraging startup ideas and projects of its students, they said, adding that the opening of the FTU’s international cooperation office in Japan marks a new stride in … [Read more...] about First Vietnam university opens int’l cooperation office in Japan
Universities open new courses to meet market demand
Many universities are offering new subjects for study in the next academic year to meet human resources demand in different sectors. Students reading information on the 2012 university entrance exams at a consulting event recently organised in the southern province of Binh Phuoc Students will have to choose the appropriate subject group in the upcoming university entrance examinations to gain admission to these subjects. For instance, if a student wants to study nuclear engineering, she or he would have to pass university entrance exams in Group A, which comprises math, physics and chemistry. The HCM City University of Science will admit 50 students for its new nuclear engineering programme. Dr. Nguyen Kim Quang, head of the university's Training Department, told the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that employment opportunities for students graduating from nuclear engineering would be huge because Vietnam plans to build several nuclear power plants in the future. … [Read more...] about Universities open new courses to meet market demand
HCM City pedestrian street attracts thousands of visitors on opening day
Thousands of visitors have flocked to the Bui Vien Walking Street in HCM City's District 1 on its opening day on August 20. Bui Vien Walking Street opens from 7pm till 2am at weekends. Despite being a small and short street, Bui Vien Street is a popular destination to lots of visitors, especially foreign tourists. Visitors went for a walk or enjoyed foods on the street. Police came to instruct visitors on its opening day on August 20 evening. Foods and souvenirs are sold on the pavements. Foreign visitors have drinks at a stall. Lots of foods being sold on the street. Art performances attract a large number of audience. … [Read more...] about HCM City pedestrian street attracts thousands of visitors on opening day