The Ton Duc Thang Museum, located at 5 Ton Duc Thang Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC, began accepting visitors for incense offerings and floral tributes to President Ton Duc Thang on July 25, according to Saigon Giai Phong news site.
On July 22, Phan Van Mai, chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee, along with other officials, conducted a ceremonial ritual to inaugurate the Ton Duc Thang Museum Memorial Room as part of the museum’s new construction project. This event commemorates the 136th anniversary of President Ton Duc Thang’s birth and marks the progress of the museum’s new building.
Founded in 1988, the Ton Duc Thang Museum began a major renovation project in October 2020. The new facility, which includes one basement and four floors, has completed its first floor. The project is expected to be finished by August and officially handed over in September 2024.
Teaching swimming skills to children in flood-prone areas
A group of Ironman athletes and SEA Games competitors has initiated a free project to teach survival swimming skills to children in flood-prone areas of Quang Tri Province.
The “Nhai” initiative, led by Ironman athlete Tran Tri Nhan Ban, addresses the lack of swimming skills among local children in Quang Tri Town and Trieu Phong District, both of which frequently experience severe flooding. The project also features contributions from other notable athletes, including SEA Games competitors Tran Van Nhan, Duong Thanh An, and Luong Ngoc Duy.
After six weeks of the first session, 45 children aged 6 to 16 from Trieu Thanh Commune, Trieu Thanh District, have graduated.
“It is encouraging to see that these children, who were initially afraid of water, now have basic skills to rescue themselves,” Nhan Ban told the Tuoi Tre news site.
The team plans to start the second session in early August and will expand the project to other communes and districts within Quang Tri.
A soup kitchen for the poor
On Phan Chu Trinh Street in Lai Thieu Ward, Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province, there is a soup kitchen for those in need, serving free meals for hundreds of diners a day, most of them are old people, street children, hawkers, and manual workers.
Diners to the meal center queue in line to receive their helpings, along with a glass of iced tea and desserts. Elderly and disabled people are served at the tables. Meals are changed every day. For those who cannot come over to have their meals, members of the Red Cross chapter of the ward will bring helpings to their homes.
The meal kitchen was opened by Tran Van Tuan, a resident of Lai Thieu, in June this year. Tuan told tuoitre.vn that he spent VND1 billion upgrading the kitchen, VND10 million a month for house rent, and VND10 million a day for ingredients for the helpings. The soup kitchen opens from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday, with the help of his relatives and local Red Cross members.
The food kitchen initially served some 300 diners a day; the number amounted to around 600 at present.
Young woman travels across the country by motorbike
Nguyen Thi Minh Hue, a 29-year-old woman living and working in Hanoi, has been fond of travel when she was young. At places she visited, she often rented a motorbike to travel around by herself.
Hue then made plans for a motorbike trip from Hanoi to the southern region alone. Riding an old Honda Dream of her elder brother, she started her motorbike trip from Hanoi in late January this year. She arrived in Thanh Hoa Province, stayed overnight there and continued her trip in the following morning to Quang Binh Province.
Riding in the daytime and taking a rest at night, Hue continued traveling to Hue City, Danang City, and heading to Kon Tum City and Buon Ma Thuot City in the Central Highlands. Then she rode her motorbike from south-central provinces to the southern provinces in the Mekong Delta.
Hue arrived in HCMC, her final destination, on February 29 (the day that comes every four years following a leap year). She had thus completed her 4,000-kilometer motorbike trip through 27 cities and provinces from north to south, thanhnien.vn reported.
