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Autumn Book Festival opens in Hanoi

The Autumn Book Festival opened at Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi on August 22, featuring 55 booths of nearly 45 publishers and distributors.
Autumn Book Festival opens in Hanoi ảnh 1Visitors to the 2018 Autumn Book Festival at Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Autumn Book Festival opened atThong Nhat Park in Hanoi on August 22, featuring 55 booths of nearly 45publishers and distributors.

The annual event, lasting through August 26,offers the latest publications in a wide range of fields such as politics –law, economics, science – technology, education, literature, culture – society,and religion.

It also includes many activities like exchangesbetween writers and readers, introduction of new books, and entertainmentactivities encouraging the reading habit.

A programme as part of the festival will call onvisitors to donate old books to children in Ta Gia Khau commune of Muong Khuongdistrict, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Deputy Minister of Information andCommunications Hoang Vinh Bao said despite certain difficulties, the publishingsector has always organised activities to develop the reading movement in thecommunity, and the 2018 Autumn Book Festival is an example.

The ministry hopes that the festival, togetherwith other book-related events will form a series of regular culturalactivities to promote people’s reading habit, thereby helping to develop alearning society, he added.

The festival is held by the ministry’s Authorityof Publication, Printing and Distribution and the Vietnam PublishersAssociation.-VNA
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