Nguyen Thi Thao from the Hanoi Foreign Trade University haswon first prize in the Alexandre Yersin youth award launched by theFrench charity organisation Le Liseron.
An awardceremony was held in Hanoi on June 4 by the Vietnam-FranceFriendship and Cooperation Organisation and the Le Liseron organisation.
Thao said she felt honoured to participate in theFrench essay contest, which helps Vietnamese students demonstrate theirknowledge about French culture and people.
Thecontest was first organised in 2013 for under-23-year-old Vietnamesestudents to promote their understanding of the European country.
Established in 1999, Le Liseron has carried out a number of programmesand projects to support disadvantaged people in Vietnam.
Born in Switzerland, Yersin (1863 - 1943) studied medicine atprestigious institutes in Switzerland, Germany and France.
He came to Vietnam in 1891 and lived in Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang cityfor more than half of a century. He was most remembered as theco-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague in1894.
He also discovered Liang Biang Plateau, thesite for Da Lat city, in 1893 and founded the Nha Trang PasteurInstitute in 1895 and the Indochina Medicine School, which laterbecame the Hanoi Medical University and the Hanoi University ofPharmacy.
In 2013, Yersin was posthumously conferred with the title of Vietnamese Honorary Citizen.-VNA
An awardceremony was held in Hanoi on June 4 by the Vietnam-FranceFriendship and Cooperation Organisation and the Le Liseron organisation.
Thao said she felt honoured to participate in theFrench essay contest, which helps Vietnamese students demonstrate theirknowledge about French culture and people.
Thecontest was first organised in 2013 for under-23-year-old Vietnamesestudents to promote their understanding of the European country.
Established in 1999, Le Liseron has carried out a number of programmesand projects to support disadvantaged people in Vietnam.
Born in Switzerland, Yersin (1863 - 1943) studied medicine atprestigious institutes in Switzerland, Germany and France.
He came to Vietnam in 1891 and lived in Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang cityfor more than half of a century. He was most remembered as theco-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague in1894.
He also discovered Liang Biang Plateau, thesite for Da Lat city, in 1893 and founded the Nha Trang PasteurInstitute in 1895 and the Indochina Medicine School, which laterbecame the Hanoi Medical University and the Hanoi University ofPharmacy.
In 2013, Yersin was posthumously conferred with the title of Vietnamese Honorary Citizen.-VNA
