The Phan Chu Trinh Awards 2012 have been presented to six individuals with special cultural research works.

Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh granted the awards to the winners at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29.

Accordingly, a culture and education award was given to educator Bui Tran Phuong and artist Vu Duc Hieu, a translation award to Chu Tien Anh and Pham Duy Hien, a research award to overseas Vietnamese professor Le Thanh Khoi and a Vietnamese studies award to French professor Philippe Langlet.

Phuong and Hieu were honoured for their contributions to promoting education and preserving Vietnamese Muong ethnic culture.

Artist Hieu was recognised for the Muong Ethnic Group Cultural Space Museum , which he established in 2007. It is the first private museum in the northern province of Hoa Binh and the only museum in Vietnam devoted to Muong culture.

Phuong is the rector of Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City which was developed from a vocational school and gathers educators from diverse backgrounds.

She is a core faculty member for SIT (School for International Training) Study Abroad in Vietnam . She has lectured on gender and social change for SIT students and has led interactive discussions between SIT and local students at Hoa Sen University .

Anh and Hien were awarded for their translation works which have brought human knowledge quintessence to Vietnamese readers.

Khoi was recognised for his research on cultures from the East to the West and Langlet for spending his whole life studying and introducing Vietnamese history and culture.


The awards were instituted in 2007 by the Phan Chau Trinh Culture Foundation which is run by the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations

From 2007 to 2011, the foundation has honored numerous domestic and foreign translators, scientists and culturists namely Bui Van Nam Son, Le Hong Sam, Nguyen Dinh Dau, Nguyen Su, Ho Ngoc Dai, Nguyen Van Khoa, G. Condominas and David Marr

Born in 1872, Trinh, a national hero, poet and cultural expert, was a reformer who fought in the resistance movement against the French when he was very young. He devoted all of his life to the country's modernisation.-VNA