The Vuon Chuoi archaeological site has been officially designated a city-level heritage site by the Hanoi People’s Committee, according to the Vietnamplus news site.
Vuon Chuoi is located in Kim Chung Commune, Hoai Duc District. It is an ancient Vietnamese village that was first settled and continuously inhabited by humans during the Metal Age for over 2,000 years, developing steadily from the late Phung Nguyen–early Dong Dau period through to the Dong Son and post-Dong Son eras.
Following the designation, local authorities are tasked with protecting the site, installing boundary markers, and establishing management boards. All construction or exploitation within protected areas is strictly prohibited unless authorized by the city government.
A Vietnamese associate professor in London
Huynh Luu Duc Toan, 35, is now an associate professor at Queen Mary University of London in England. In 2002, graduating from the business administration faculty of the Foreign Trade University as a valedictorian, Toan worked as a lecturer of the HCMC University of Banking.
Toan earned the Master of Economics and Commerce from Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France; Master of Finance and Commerce from Nantes Université, France; and Master of Computer Science from the University of York, England. In 2022, he earned a doctoral degree from the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany.
In addition to working at the Queen Mary University of London, Toan is also a researcher and a visiting scholar at the Bank of Finland. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies and a co-editor-in-chief of the Evaluation Review journal.
According to nld.com.vn, many of Toan’s studies are meaningful to Vietnam. As a mentor, he has helped many young Vietnamese students win international scholarships for overseas study. Regardless of geographical distances, he is always willing to participate in seminars and projects at home as a way to support the academic community.
Making undergarments for mountainous kids
The program to make undergarments for children in mountainous areas launched by Bui Thi May, 32, a fashion designer in Hanoi, along with the fabric scrap project, has handed out free undergarments to mountainous children over the past year.
May always wishes to do something to help the needy, especially children and women in remote and mountainous areas. A friend of hers, who carries out the fabric scrap project aiming at environmental protection, told her about the need for undergarments of those children. As a lingerie designer and a teacher of underwear makers, she decided to call for her friends, employees and students to make undergarments for mountainous kids.
May initiated the program to make undergarments for children in need in November last year. In Hanoi, she and her employees and students got together now and then to make undergarments for the kids. For the voluntary participants who live in other localities, she sent them designs and video clips showing in detail how to make such products.
So far, over 30,000 volunteers have participated in May’s program, donating a large number of undergarments to children in mountainous areas, thanhnien.vn reported.
Injured dolphin rescued after straying into river in Ca Mau
A dolphin that accidentally swam into the Ganh Hao River in Ca Mau City was rescued by local residents after being found with a spear lodged in its body, Dan Tri news site reported.
Bui Van Dam, a resident of Ca Mau Province, said he and another man spotted the dolphin around 9 a.m. on June 27 as it swam from the sea into a section of the river running through Hoa Tan Commune. By 11 a.m., locals discovered a two-meter-long spear, featuring a wooden handle and sharp metal tip, embedded in the animal’s side.
While out fishing, Dam and a local melaleuca tree seller took a boat to rescue the injured dolphin. They had to cut away a piece of skin to remove the barbed spear.
“After we removed the spear and released it, the dolphin swam away normally,” Dam said. He believes the animal may have returned to the sea, as it was not seen again the following day.
