PANO - The U.S. Government, through the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, is providing a grant to the Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam to restore and preserve religious and devotional objects.

On October 24, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi announced that U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Michael W. Marine and Dr. Phạm Quốc Quân, Director of the Vietnamese History Museum, will sign a grant agreement for the project at a ceremony on October 26, 2006, at the Vietnamese History Museum in Hanoi.

Ngoc Hung