Archive for February 2nd, 2010

A record number of 1,000 chung cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children in Quan Ngua Stadium on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival.

These are special presents for disadvantaged children to welcome New year. Recipients will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other serious diseases.

The record-setting chung cake pot is part of the “merciful Tet” programme to be held in Hanoi from February 5-7 by the Ha Lan media and tourism company with support from non-governmental organizations in Vietnam, the Hanoi Society for Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS, and a number of foreign embassies. (more…)