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At the exchange with three speakers

Starting the exchange, Senior Colonel Nguyen Van Sau, Secretary of the Party Committee, Deputy Director, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Army Publishing House, spoke highly of the exchange at the Military Logistics Academy in particular, and the Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2022 in general. He highly appreciated the 71-year tradition of the academy and its development as a prestigious center of education, training, logistics and financial scientific research of the military and the nation.

At the exchange, participants heard stories about books told by three speakers, including Professor, Doctor Dinh Xuan Dung, former member of the Central Theoretical Council and former Vice President of the Central Literature and Arts Theory and Criticism Council; Writer, Senior Colonel Nguyen Tien hai, former Head of the Art and Letters Book Editorial Department under the People’s Army Publishing House; and Senior Colonel Hoang Dinh Huan, head of the history review division of the Political Department of the Military Logistics Academy.

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The leader of the People’s Army Publishing House presents books to a representative of the Military Logistics Academy.

The exchange helped the participants learn more about the aim and meaning of the Vietnam Book Day as well as further comprehend the values and role of books to social life in general and military life in particular.

On the occasion, the People’s Army Publishing House presented 100 newly-printed books and 70 e-books to the Military Logistics Academy.

* On April 20 and 21, affiliated units of the Dak Lak provincial Border Guard Command held a number of meaningful activities in border areas.

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The book-reading festival in Ia Rve border commune of Ea Sup district

In the border communes of Ia Rve, Ea Bung, and Ia Lop of Ea Sup district and Krong Na commune of Buon Don district, border posts coordinated with communes’ cultural establishments to organize the book reading festival, during which numerous books and newspapers, including new legal books were introduced together with the significance of the Vietnam Book Day. The festival attracted a large number of local officials and people.

Apart from the aforementioned festival, agencies and units under the Border Guard Command of Dak Lak province also organized events for troops to read and give comments on books, raised troops’ awareness of books via book introduction and story-telling activities.

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Troops of Dak Lak provincial Border Guard Command interested in reading books

So far, on implementing the project on strengthening law dissemination and education for officials and people in border areas for the 2017 - 2021 period, the Dak Lak provincial Border Guard Command has allocated 14 bookcases of law with 18,315 book copies. The bookcases have effectively performed its duties, becoming an useful information channel making contribution to raising border officials’ and people’s awareness of law observance and developing the reading movement in the community.

Translated by Chung Anh