Lê Hồng Nhung, born March 15, 1970, is a Vietnamese singer. She is one of the four divas in Vietnamese music, along with Thanh Lam, My Linh, and Tran Thu Ha. She is also known for her performance of composer Trinh Cong Son songs. Hong Nhung was born in Hanoi, deserted by her mother before she was a year old and brought up by her grandmother. Her father was a bohemian figure who drifted in and out of her life, never contributing much money for the food and clothes she was so short of. Nhung had a good voice, though, and when she was 11 she sang her first song on Vietnam Radio. At 17 she made her first album, and by 21 she was starting to make a name for herself. At the age of 10, she was admitted to the vocal class of the Hanoi Youth Culture House. In 1981, she started recording with Radio the Voice of Vietnam. She became known as a promising young singer with songs Nhớ Về Hà Nội and Papa, a Vietnamese cover of the Myo song. In 1991, Nhung moved to Ho Chi Minh City. She met composer Trịnh Công Sơn in 1992 and began to perform his songs with a new style, creating a wave in Vietnamese music. Hồng Nhung is living in Ho Chi Minh City. -wikipedia

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011

CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES AUDITORIUM

6:30 PM

Viet Nam, 2011 (95 mins)

Vietnamese with English subtitles

Dir: Phạm Nhuệ Giang

Cast: Hong Anh, Phung Hoa Hoai Linh, Nguyen Bach Tung Lam, Truong Minh Quoc Thai

Lan (Hong Anh) and her daughter Thu (Phung Hoa Hoai Linh) live in a lowland area in the middle of the Red River. Their typical day includes going to the Long Bien Market very early in the morning to buy wholesale groceries and resell them at a local market later in the day. Thu’s mother falls in love with a driver (Truong Minh Quoc Thai), a relationship that has no future. As Thu suffers from the loneliness of her own mother’s neglect, she unwittingly becomes a mother to her orphaned best friend (Nguyen Bach Tung Lam )—until an accident changes their lives forever. The Mother’s Heart was produced with assistance from the Global Film Initiative in their effort to promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.

The Director:

Ms. Phạm Nhuệ Giang, a graduate of Hanoi University of Cinematography and Hanoi University of Architecture, is a well-known multi-award winning director in Vietnam. Since her debut film, “Le Petit Culi”, made in 1992, she has directed many TV series and feature films, which have won her several national and international awards. Among them are the Silver Lotus Prize at the 13th National Film Festival, the First Prize at the 52st FIPRESCI Melbourne International Film Festival, and Second Prize from the Vietnam Association of Cinematography for her film titled “The Deserted Valley” in 2001. She also won second prize from the Vietnam Association of Cinematography and the Complimentary Award from the 12th Vietnam National Film Festival for “Fled” in 1996, the Silver Prize for “Waiting for Tet” from the National Television Film Festival in 2007, the Golden Kite Award from the Vietnam Association of Filmmakers and the Gold Prize at the Vietnam National Television Film Festival in 2007 for her 25-episode series named “Hau Hoa”. Most recently, she won the Golden Kite Award again from the Vietnam Association of Filmmakers for her film “The Real and the Ideal” in 2009.

For more information on the Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (IVCE), go here: http://www.ivce.org/index.php

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* Folk Stories of the Hmong: Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
* A Glimpse of Vietnamese Oral Literature: Mythology, Tales, Folklore
* Cambodian Folk Stories from the Gatiloke
* In Grandmother’s House: Thai Folklore, Traditions, and Rural Village Life
* Indonesian Folktales

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Đàm Vĩnh Hưng (born October 2, 1971) is a Vietnamese pop star. Hung was born in Ho Chi Minh city in 1971 with his first career as a hair dresser. Mr. Dam began his musical career in 1996.

He has become very popular in Vietnam beginning with his first career solo, “Bình Minh Sẽ Mang Em Đi” and “Tình Ơi Xin Ngủ Yên”. Hung is involved in combating the escalating traffic crisis. He is a goodwill ambassador to Asia Injury Prevention Foundation. In July 2010, Hung came to Santa Clara, California to give a concert. Security was heavy in expectation of protests by Vietnamese Americans, many of whom see him as a symbol of the communist government which they fled. Activist Ly Tong dressed up in drag in order to slip through security, and under the pretext of giving Hung a flower, sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.

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Established in 1981, Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) is dedicated to the advancement of understanding and cultural exchange among the peoples of Asia, the Pacific and North America through the medium of film. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is proud to sponsor the following films at the 31st HIFF:

THE GAME KISS
Part of SHORTS PROGRAM #2
Dir. Paul Agusta
Indonesia 2011
9:15 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Dole Cannery E

BUSONG
Dir. Auraeus Solito 2011
Philippines 2011
8:00 PM | Monday, October 17 | Dole Cannery F
1:00 PM | Tuesday, October 18 | Dole Cannery B

LIVING IN SEDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES
Dir. Ian Gamazon 2011
United States/Vietnam 2011
8:45 PM | Tuesday, October 18 | Dole Cannery C

THE DANCE OF TWO LEFT FEET (ANG SAYAW NG DALAWANG KALIWANG PAA)
Dir. Alvin Yapan
Philippines 2011
6:00 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Dole Cannery D
4:30 PM | Monday, October 17 | Dole Cannery E

RAKENROL
Dir. Quark Henares
Philippines 2011
6:15 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Dole Cannery E

STAR-CROSSED LOVE
Dir. Erick Salud
Philippines 2011
9:30 PM | Friday, October 21 | Dole Cannery E
8:15 PM | Sunday, October 23 | Dole Cannery E

THELMA
Dir. Paul Soriano
Philippines 2011
2:45 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Dole Cannery B

THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK
(ANG BABAE SA SEPTIC TANK )
Dir. Marlon Rivera
Philippines 2011
5:00 PM | Thursday, October 20 | Dole Cannery E

BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER
Dir. Kaz Cai, Wang Jing, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Singapore 2011
3:30 PM | Wednesday, October 19 | Dole Cannery C
11:30 AM | Saturday, October 22 | Dole Cannery A

ETERNITY
Dir. Sivaroj Kongsakul
Thailand 2010
1:00 PM | Sunday, October 16 | Dole Cannery C
3:30 PM | Tuesday, October 18 | Dole Cannery F

SAIGON ELECTRIC
Dir. Stephane Gauger
United States, Viet Nam 2011
4:30 PM | Saturday, October 22 | Dole Cannery A

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The Bùi Xuân Phái Prize is given out annually to individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the city of Hà Nội in the fields of culture, arts, and the betterment of society.

Digregorio noted that “This is the first time foreigners have won this prize. Mike Douglass has been crucial in guiding a process of awakening that has drawn in more and more architects and planners into a way of looking at public space as part of a social process that runs counter to the process of corporatization under way in Vietnam’s cities. Our project reminds younger generations to look back at the past while thinking about what they can do to make Hà Nội more beautiful in the future.”

For an interesting blog piece on Thống Nhất Park go here: http://davidlloydson.com/2011/06/07/74/

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BONG SEN (1998) is a remarkable co-production between Algeria and Vietnam. The film won Third Prize at the Seventh Festival of African Cinema in Morocco. In the 1950s, the French Army sent thousands of indigenes, soldiers conscripted from colonies in North Africa, to fight in the so-called “Dirty War” in Indochina. Set against the growing Vietnamese struggle for independence is a love story involving Ali, portrayed by Algerian actor El-Mellouhi Niddal, and Lien (Nguyen An Chinh), a beautiful Viet Minh guerrilla.

PASSERINE BIRD (1962). The Vietnam Film Institute stumbled upon a deteriorating 16mm print of this lost classic which the Hong Kong Film Archive restored and the Center subtitled. The film offers a lyric view of village level resistance to French colonial aggression in Viet Nam in the 1950s. Nga, a young girl, is thrown into the bitter struggles of her fellow countrymen as images of innocent youth are bled away, turning into the steadfastness of nationalist resolve.

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Dr. Phan Le Ha
Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
Vietnam National University Hanoi

Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319

“The nation state, globalization and new ways of understanding brain drain: Vietnam as a case study”

Dr. Phan Le Ha
Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
Vietnam National University Hanoi

Friday, May 6, 2011
Sakamaki Hall A201

Dr. Phan Le Ha lectures in the Faculty of Education Monash University Australia. She also holds visiting professorship at the University of Reading UK and Vietnam National University Hanoi. Her expertise includes identity studies, cultural sociology of education, language teacher education and internationalization of education. She has published and conducted a wide range of projects in these areas. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Quang Lê was born in Vietnam, with family roots from Central Vietnam in the City of Huế. He is the third son in a family of 6 siblings, and one adopted sister. His family immigrated to the United States in 1991, and initially settled in Missouri. His family then moved to Orange County, California. Although Quang Lê had been singing at a very young age, it was not until the year 2000 that Quang Lê decided to become a singer professionally.

Prior to appearing on the Paris By Night stage, a musical production created by Thúy Nga Productions, Quang Lê sang for a smaller music production called Ca Dao. He released three albums with Ca Dao singing “Quê Hương” songs such as “Ngại Ngùng”, “Em Ve Voi Nguoi”, “Chim Sáo Ngày Xưa”, “Tinh Cha” and “Lối Thu Xưa”. He was even given the opportunity to sing with a very famous female Vietnamese singer at the time, Phi Nhung, on two songs entitled “Ngày Đã Đơm Bông” and “Ngau Hung Ly Qua Cau”. Quang Lê had submitted a video to Thúy Nga Productions but at the time, they did need singers to perform “Quê Hương” songs. He waited two years before he received an invitation to appear in Thúy Nga’s Paris by Night 66, entitled “Người Tình va Quê Hương”, an opportunity that opened all doors for Quang Lê and started his journey to becoming one of the top selling artists within the Vietnamese music industry.

Quang Lê is a devout Buddhist and performs at many temples around the world, often for fundraising events. A major event which Quang Lê frequently participates in is “Lễ Hội Quan Âm” at the Việt Nam Buddhist Temple in Sugarland, Texas, located in the suburbs of Houston. Quang Lê also gets invitations from overseas Temple such as in France and Australia to perform. Quang Lê was approached by Nguyen Dat, vice president of the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple to release a Buddhist CD. In early 2009, in time for Lễ Hội Quan Âm, Quang Lê Entertainment released “Giót Nước Từ Bi” (Tears of Compassion), an album dedicated to Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.

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