PANO - The Ho Chi Minh city Employee Assistance Center held a press conference on August 28 to announce a group wedding ceremony in 2016, themed “Honoring Vietnamese cultural beauty”.

The ceremony will be held for 100 young couples working at industrial and export processing zones, schools, and companies in the city.

Representative of the organizing panel launching the group wedding ceremony in 2016

Accordingly, each participating couple will receive for free a dinner party, a pair of rings, a savings book, a wedding photo album, helmets, pillows, wedding costumes, makeup services, flowers and gifts from sponsors. Especially, 20 needy couples will be selected to receive 20 mattresses and dream rooms (worth VND 20 million each).

The event is organized on the 71st anniversary of National Day (Sept. 2) to promote a civilized and economical lifestyle among youngsters, especially disadvantaged young workers as well as to honor the traditional beauty of the Vietnamese wedding ceremony.

The mass wedding ceremony will be broadcast live on HTV1 channel on September 2 at Queen Plaza (District 10, HCMC). To date, the organizing panel has organized wedding for more than 500 young couples.

* The same day in Hanoi, the Hanoi Communist Youth Union held a ceremony to honor 100 top students on the graduation ceremonies of universities and academies in the city. The ceremony was launched on the evening of August 28 in Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (the Temple of Literature).

Accordingly, the 100 outstanding students with the best learning outcomes were presented with certificates of merit of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee. Many of them are Party members or students who won prizes in national and international contests for scientific initiatives and projects. After 14 years, about 1,533 students were honored.

Translated by Hong Thanh