The beauty of Miss Vietnam’s final contestants

Twenty-two contestants from northern provinces who entered the final round of Miss Vietnam 2010 pageant showed their beauty through photos by professional photographers.

Le Nha Uyen, student from Hue city’s Phu Xuan University, 1.69m, 47kg, 78-63-91

Dang Thuy Trang, student of Hanoi University of Technology, 1.72m, 53kg, 89-63-92

Pham Thi Huyen Trang, Hanoi Open University, 1.66m, 48kg, 84-64-90

Nguyen Thi Minh, Thai Nguyen Technological College, 1.74m, 52kg, 83-63-92

Vu Thu Ha, SP Media JS Company, 1.69m, 52kg, 87-64-92

Dam Thu Trang, Army Culture and Art University, 1.72m, 53kg, 83-64-92

Dao Thi Han, New Talent Company, 1.73m, 52kg, 83-64-92

Cung Thanh Ngoc Anh, Thang Long University, 1.69m, 54kg, 87-63-93

Tran Thi Hoai Phuong, high-school graduate, 1.72m, 52kg

Le Thu Huyen Trang, Dong Do University, 1.68m, 47kg, 79-60-93

Truong Tung Lan, Hanoi Open University, 1.69m, 45kg, 82-60-87

Dang Ha Thu, Hanoi University, 1.74m, 54kg, 85-65-92

Nguyen Thi Tuyet Ngoc, Bac Ha International University, 1.71m, 51kg, 87-63-91

Dang Thi Ngoc Han, Hanoi Industrial Art University, 1.73m, 55kg, 83-64-93

Do Thi Huong, kindergartener, 1.71m, 51kg, 83-60-89

Nguyen Phuoc Hanh, Hanoi Foreign Language University, 1.78m, 56kg, 86-63-93

Phi Thi Thuy Linh, Hanoi Business and Technology University, 1.69m, 55kg, 85-64-95

Nguyen Thi Loan, Hanoi Trade University, 1.74m, 55kg, 89-64-91

Dang Thi Ngoc Han, 21

Ton Nu Na Uy, Hue Economics University, 19 years old, 1.65m, 79-60-88

Le Nha Uyen, 22

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tuyet, 21

Tran Thi Hoai Phuong, 18.

Truong Tung Lan, 22

Le Thu Huyen Trang, 20

Dam Thu Trang, 21

Nguyen Phuoc Hanh, 22

Dao Thi Han, 22

Vu Thi Thuy Duong,

Dang Thuy Trang, 19

Women who earn their living on the sea

Ben Do is the only floating fish market in Cam Pha town, Quang Ninh province. This market only opens for two hours in the early morning. Most of traders are women.

Going to the sea is men’s job, selling fish is women’s job.

Women go to this market to sell and buy fish.

Nguyen Ngoc Tu (striped shirt) has been a familiar customer at this floating market for four years. She buys fresh seafood for her restaurant.

During the stormy season, the market only has small fish, small shrimp and small rays.

The prices also increase.

Dinh Thi Ngoc has sold seafood here for many years. Today she and her husband go to the market. She sells fish and her husband collects money.

This is a floating market so some customers have to pay 10,000-15,000 for boat service to go to the market.

Many people buy seafood from this market to sell at other markets on the shore.

10,000 monks and followers attend Buddhist great ceremony

A Buddhist Ceremony was held at the Thang Long Royal Citadel on July 28 to launch an overseas Vietnamese and national cultural week.

Present at the ceremony were former Vice State President Truong My Hoa, Chair of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, Nguyen Thanh Son, senior officials from Hanoi, representatives from international organisations, hundreds of monks and nuns and more than 100 overseas Vietnamese.

The Most Venerable Thich Thien Nhon, Vice Chair of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), said that over the past 2,000 years, Vietnamese Buddhism has helped to construct and develop the nation as well as maintain peace, independence and unification.

On the occasion, the VBS presented 25 charity houses to poor families and 500 scholarships to poor students in Hanoi worth a total of 1 billion dong.

During Buddhist Week, from July 27-August 2, there will be many activities, including a ceremony to ask for peace and the people’s prosperity, several requiems, a night-time festival with garlands of flowers and coloured lanterns and a theatrical performance themed “Imprints of Thang Long”.

The ceremony in photos: