Co-organised by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications and agencies, departments, agencies, as well as publishing houses and book companies; the event is expected to find and develop good ideas about good reading models to share with localities in the city.

At the event.

At the book fair, children will practice reading habits with many good books. In addition, children will also participate in intellectual training games, creative activities through attractive playgrounds such as folding origami paper, experimenting with Lego assembling games, modeling Playdoh clay, pottery crafting and painting.

Families, parents and children can share and discuss a good books in an interactive space named "read with children", or guide and orient their children on protecting the environment as well as participating in a book exchange programme.

In addition, readers will receive a discount of 20-50% for children's books. In particular, the "Book exchange programme" will encourage children to share valuable knowledge with everyone and add new books and increase their knowledge.

The book fair is scheduled to create a reading culture space and take part in meaningful activities for children, contributing to building a learning society by developing the reading movement and encouraging reading habits of the younger generation from families, schools and society.

Yen The (Bac Giang) presents school books to impoverished students

(BGO) – The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in Dong Lac commune (Yen The district, Bac Giang province) launched the campaign in early July to collect and donate school books to the students living in poor and disadvantaged families in the commune.

Book street: Calm in the eye of the storm

“There is peace even in the storm,” said Vincent van Gogh. One place in Ho Chi Minh City symbolizes this statement. Amidst the chaos and noise of a bustling commercial hub, the peace and calm is to be found in a small street that has the widest metaphorical spaces - Nguyen Van Binh Book Street.

Colouring book features Dong Ho folk paintings

The Hanoi Ceramic Museum and The Gioi Publishers on July 31 introduced to the public a book on Dong Ho folk paintings. 

Da Nang, Facebook join hands in disaster response

The central city of Da Nang and Facebook on July 31 kicked off a partnership programme on enhancing disaster response and digital capacity, the first of its kind sealed between Facebook and a Vietnamese locality.

Vietnam books 1.8 billion USD trade surplus in seven months

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of 1.8 billion USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the General Statistic Office of Vietnam. During the period, Vietnam earned 145.13 billion USD from shipping goods abroad, a year on year surge of 7.5 percent.

Source: NDO