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New Indian Express
a day ago
- General
- New Indian Express
Surya Namaskar, Hubballi to Ho Chi Minh
HUBBALLI: In the land of Ho Chi Minh, a quiet revolution is taking shape, asana by asana. For the last 10 years a group of seven men from Hubballi has been spreading the message of yoga. Working as yoga mentors, Rajeev Kumar Somaraddi, Santosh Umachagi, Muttappa Umachagi, Iranna Matad, Devaraj Devadiga, Appu Parangi, and Venkatesh have trained over one lakh people in the last 10 years. They teach mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and Bien Hoa. 'It has been almost 10 years we have been teaching yoga here. It has been a very good response from the people here. The people perform yoga here regularly,' said Somaraddi. On International Yoga Day, the Hubba'li mentors performed yoga in front of an enthralled audience. A walkathon was held in Ho Chi Minh City. Participants performed 100 Surya Namaskars in the morning and evening. A native of Kundgol near Hubballi, Somaraddi learnt yoga at Shivananda Math during their high school days. Once a passion, yoga is now their profession. Stating that the people of Vietnam love yoga and nearly 90 per cent of them perform yoga regularly, Somaraddi said that Vietnamese students participate in international competitions. 'People here are health conscious and maintain their level of fitness,' he said. 'Celebration of International Yoga Day was needed to create awareness about yoga. It is a necessity for the present generation,' he said. 'People from different walks of life, engineers, doctors, professors and students, have learnt yoga here. I taught yoga to immigrants from Australia, the US and Russia in Vietnam,' he added.
The Star
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Star
Ho Chi Minh: a journalist of the highest standing
HANOI: Long before he became the revered leader of an independent Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh was a journalist with a mission: to give a voice to the voiceless, to expose injustice and to connect the Vietnamese struggle with the broader currents of global liberation. His pen, as sharp as his political instincts, became his first weapon in the long fight against colonialism. A documentary titled Journalist Ho Chi Minh, produced by the People's Army Cinema in 2020, highlighted that President Ho was not only an eminent political leader and a great cultural figure, but also a brilliant journalist who laid the groundwork for Vietnam's revolutionary press. The establishment and growth of Vietnamese journalism have been firmly rooted in the ideology of revolutionary Nguyen Ai Quoc, an alias of President Ho since its earliest days. By the end of 1917, President Ho Chi Minh, then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, embarked on his revolutionary journalist journey. From those early days in France, he clearly understood that the press was a sharp moral weapon against the enemy and a vital means of communication for promoting revolutionary movements. He began writing articles that denounced colonialism and fought for the independence and justice of colonised peoples worldwide, including those in Vietnam. In 1922, after overcoming numerous challenges, Nguyen Ai Quoc, and his comrades in the Intercolonial Union established the newspaper Le Paria in France. The preface of its first issue, published on April 1, 1922, stated its motto as a "fighting weapon, its mission is clear: to free the people". Nguyen Ai Quoc's contributions to Le Paria were tremendous, and his writing remains compelling to this day, according to French writer and historian Jean Lacouture in the documentary. President Ho Chi Minh reading a Chinese newspaper during a visit to China in 1953. - Photo: VNA/VNS He described the writing as that of a master strategist. The documentary noted that Nguyen Ai Quoc's articles in Le Paria resonated deeply with readers in the colonies, earning widespread support and praise. Letters poured in from around the world, containing donations for the newspaper and requests for long-term subscriptions. A fateful bond 'Ho Chi Minh never identified himself as a poet, journalist or writer. Instead, he only considered himself as someone with a 'fateful bond' with the press, a political commentator, a propagandist and a professional revolutionary," said Bui Dinh Phong, PhD, associate professor at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics. Spanning 50 years of journalistic activities, President Ho wrote over 2,000 articles, more than 270 poems, and 500 pages of memoirs and short stories in different languages, all dedicated to one sole mandate: national liberation. "The great revolutionary journalist Ho Chi Minh established a legacy of record-breaking achievements that few in his field have matched over the last century,' Phong told a national seminar recently held to mark 100 years of revolutionary journalism in the country. He founded or co-founded numerous publications, including Le Paria (1922), Thanh Nien (1925), Linh Kach Menh (1927), and Vietnam Doc Lap (1941), among others. Furthermore, he contributed articles to many domestic and international newspapers, writing in various languages such as Vietnamese, French, Russian and Chinese, Phong said. According to the article Keeping the Revolutionary Fire Through Each Letter, published in the Quan doi nhan dan (People's Army) newspaper in 2021, Nguyen Ai Quoc's earliest piece in archive was Van de ban xu (The Indigenous Question). It was published in the French daily newspaper L'Humanité on August 2, 1919. His final article Nang cao trach nhiem cham soc va giao duc thieu nien, nhi dong (Enhancing Responsibility for the Care and Education of Teenagers and Children), was run in the Nhan Dan (The People) newspaper on June 1, 1969. 'His themes, content, forms and writing styles were incredibly diverse and rich, featuring a unique and creative authorial technique. "However, they were consistently unified in their guiding principles, purpose, viewpoints and political ideology," added Phong. An exceptional journalist In an article in Tap chi Lich su Dang (Journal of Vietnam Communist Party History, issue No 4, 2010), Hoa Dinh Nghia of the Ho Chi Minh Museum wrote that Ho Chi Minh's articles always demonstrated profound knowledge, rich life experience and a swift grasp of information and current events. "His writing style was concise, simple and clear. When writing for newspapers, he always upheld a high sense of social responsibility, thinking deeply about his content and being meticulous with his words and ideas to ensure that the masses could easily understand and engage with the information," Nghia wrote. "In his early days as a writer, he would revise an article many times to perfect it. At first, he would write at length, then edit it down to be concise and succinct while still retaining all necessary and important content," Nghia wrote. "This became such a habit that even as President, after finishing an article, he would often read it aloud to those around him for feedback.' One of the most important reasons Ho Chi Minh achieved the stature of a brilliant journalist, according to Phong of the National Academy of Politics, was that when writing, one must always understand who they are writing for and what the purpose is. Some sketches by Nguyen Ai Quoc (1922-1942) at the Vietnam Press Museum in Hanoi. - Photo: VNS Ho Chi Minh's career and journalistic legacy provided a convincing answer to these questions, Phong said. "Ho Chi Minh wrote for numerous newspapers, each with different contexts, audiences, purposes and methods of expression," he said. "His experience in journalism was a reverse experience: he first learned to write journalism in French, then in Chinese and only after that did he learn to write in Vietnamese." During his years in France, when writing for the newspaper La Vie Ouvrière (The Worker's Life) and even when he was the editor-in-chief, publisher, distributor and seller for Le Paria, his primary target audience was the fellow oppressed and the Vietnamese workers who could not read French. In the newly released photo book 100 Years of Vietnam's Revolutionary Press, published by the Vietnam News Agency Publishing House, it is noted that after a period of study and work in the Soviet Union in 1923-1924, where he wrote for Pravda (The Truth) and other publications, Nguyen Ai Quoc moved to Guangzhou, China, in November 1924. His mission was to prepare for the launch of a new political newspaper and to train a new generation of Vietnamese revolutionaries. The following year, he founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League and launched its official publication, the Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper. This milestone marked the birth of Vietnam's revolutionary press. - Vietnam News/ANN
GSM Arena
02-06-2025
- Business
- GSM Arena
Realme C71 launches with 6,300 mAh battery
It's been a high-growth day for Realme's affordable C series today. Following the launch of the C73 earlier, the brand has now also made the C71 official - seemingly in Vietnam first, but undoubtedly other markets will follow. The C71 comes with a 6.67-inch 720x1604 LCD screen with 120 Hz refresh rate and 725-nit peak brightness, the Unisoc T7250 chipset at the helm, 4/6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 6,300 mAh battery with support for 45W SuperVOOC fast wired charging. Realme C71 official images On the back there's a 50 MP "AI Camera", while for selfies you get a 5 MP snapper. The device is 4G-only, and comes with NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, a single "ultra-high volume" speaker, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, and it runs Android 15 with Realme UI on top. It measures 165.8 x 75.9 x 7.79 mm and weighs 196g. It's MIL-STD-810H certified to withstand drops from up to 1.5m. Its recommended retail price seems to be VND 3,990,000, which is about $153, but some retailers have a launch promo going on it which has taken that down to VND 3,790,000 or $145. Thanks for the tip!
Telegraph
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Our Guy in Vietnam, review: Martin is wasted on this feather-light tourist stuff
There is no one else like Guy Martin on British television. And there is no one else who can do what he does. So, to be blunt, why have Channel 4 sent him to undertake a job that Sue Perkins could do? Our Guy in Vietnam (Channel 4), a two-part series to mark 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, is not the usual Guy Martin gig – a daredevil challenge or an engineering geek's adventure – it is a bog-standard travelogue. 'We're in full tourist mode here,' says Martin. Yep. 'We don't normally do tourist things.' You do now, Guy. 'Yeah, Vietnam,' says Martin at the top of the programme, as if the audience had just shouted 'Vietnam?' at seeing the programme title. He's here, he says, because he's keen to get to the bottom of this 'Communism job' and we are treated to some GCSE-level potted history about Ho Chi Minh, the French occupation and central planning. The programme leans gently into Martin's strengths – vehicles, engineering, war history – and, as you witness him trying to pull a wheelie on a motorbike and sidecar, create some homemade napalm, zip down the Ho Chi Minh trail on a dirt bike, and detonate an unexploded cluster bomb, it feels like you are watching someone on a stag-do itinerary put together by a blokey amateur-history enthusiast. Even his patter is war-buffs-down-the-pub: 'It's not a point of debate. Vietnam won the war. Simple.' Yet there was nothing here that Sue Perkins wouldn't do – tai chi down the park, hawking at a floating market, riding an overladen moped – and even the segments that should hold some weight, such as speaking to a man who was born with deformities because of Agent Orange, are gossamer-thin and over in the blink of an eye. Some moments are just plain daft. 'Bus travel is quite a common form of travel in Vietnam,' says Martin. The voice-over teems with inane generalisations about the country ('The Vietnamese admire wealth') and some moments plumb depths of meaninglessness that even Inside the Factory and Gregg Wallace would fear. An electronic-vehicle factory site is, we're told, 'twice the size of Monaco'. We're not told how big Monaco is (about half the size of Central Park, since you ask). It is arguably Martin's first misstep since he roared onto our screens in a cloud of exhaust fumes many years ago, and if the programme has merit, it's simply in spending time with him. There is something undeniably charming about watching a mechanic from Grimsby pottering about Hanoi, calling everyone 'duck' or 'big man', but Martin is wasted on this feather-light tourist stuff. Occasionally, we get a glimpse of his unique appeal, such as when he notices that the thousands of lights in a gaudy temple are 'filament not LED' and frets about the cost, or when he visits Hanoi's famous Train Street and brings a tape measure so he can find out the track gauge. Martin has an idiosyncratic view of the world; Our Guy in Vietnam had everyone else's.
Daily Mail
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE First look at Guy Martin's new show Our Guy in Vietnam as he stumbles across an unexpected US bomb while filming adventure travel series
Guy Martin stumbles across an unexpected US bomb while searching for some explosives in his new adventure series Our Guy in Vietnam. The new programme is set to our our screens on Channel 4 this Sunday (June 1 2025). The show's synopsis reads: 'On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Guy Martin gets on his bike to explore Vietnam's past, present and future.' In an exclusive first look clip, obtained by MailOnline, the former motorcycle racer turned documentary maker, 43, keeps his cool after finding a deadly device. Guy says to the camera: 'Yeah what we have found... a BLU24B. 'They call it an antipersonnel cluster bomb. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'The soul goal of that is just to kill people.' While pointing in the distance, he adds: 'There's one here. There's one over there. I found one over there. 'A bomber has come over head this way or that way, 50 odd year ago, dumped a load and that is one of these!' He adds: 'The only way to deal with this is to have a controlled explosion. So fuse in there, bag it up with loads of sandbags... 'Boom!' The star can be seen helping put sand in green bags. The voiceover explains: 'Today they will be exploding two bombs while the detonation cord is laid out to a safe distance of 250 meters away. 'The explosives charged is readied and the rest of the team warn the locals to clear the area.' Guy and one of the team stand from afar and get to flick the switch. They tell him: 'You have to press this button and keep holding it until the red light comes on. 'Then I will count down from 10 to zero. Then at zero you press this button.' Guy makes it clear that he understands and puts his thumb up. After counting down, the star presses the button and the bombs explode. A shocked Guy confesses: 'We weren't expecting that, were we?!' Fans don't have long to wait until the show hits our screens. Guy recently took to Instagram to give an insight into what fans can expect from the series. He wrote on his profile: 'On the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Guy explores the past, present and future of Vietnam, to see how the country is still dealing with the effects of the controversial conflict, and how it is planning a high-tech future. 'In the first episode, Guy charts the history of the war by riding his motorcycle down the famous Ho Chi Minh Trail, visiting a Huey helicopter graveyard at an abandoned American combat base, making his own version of the lethal weapon napalm, and coming face to face with a live cluster bomb left over from the war – which he then helps detonate in a controlled explosion.' Fans rushed to the comments section to share their excitement, with one saying: 'Two of my favorite things. Guy and Vietnam.' 'Banging can't think of a better combo Guy and Nam, what a place love it there.' 'Something actually worth watching on the TV.' Watch Our Guy in Vietnam on Channel 4 at 9:00pm this Sunday (1 June 2025).
