Tran Thanh Van (R), a fourth grader of Doan Thi Diem primary school in Hanoi, whose slogan was selected to appear on posters of the “Doraemon with traffic safety in Vietnam” 2017-2018 programme (Photo: tuoitre.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Winners of acontest on the official slogan of the “Doraemon withtraffic safety in Vietnam” 2017-2018 programme was announced on January 18.
A slogan penned by Tran Thanh Van, a fourth grader of DoanThi Diem primary school in Hanoi, was selected to appear on posters to raise publicawareness of traffic safety nationwide in 2017-2018.
She will receive a prize worth 2.2 million VND (200 USD) anda round-trip air ticket from Vietnam to Tokyo presented by Japan Airlines.
Initiated by Mainichi Newspaper Co. Ltd, the contest on theofficial slogan of the traffic safety programme has been held in Japan over thepast 52 years, raising people and students’ awareness of traffic regulationsand safety.
In Vietnam, it was co-organised by the Mainichi Newspaper,the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security and theMinistry of Education and Training.
In the second time, the contest received 104,966 entries, fourtimes higher than that of the previous year. Of the number, there were 96,871slogans submitted by children aged 6-10 and the remainder by those aged 11upwards. The organisers selected the most 20 outstanding slogans for awards.
Lauding the winners of the contest, Japanese Ambassador toVietnam Kunio Umeda hoped that the “Doraemon with traffic safety in Vietnam” programmewill continue to enhance traffic safety for Vietnamese people and promote theVietnam-Japan friendship.
Doraemon, a robot cat, is a famous Japanese animation character amongchildren in Asia, including Vietnam, and has served as a symbol of trafficsafety for decades in Japan.
Japan first launched a traffic safety programme featuring Doraemon 30years ago, when about 15,000 Japanese people were killed by traffic accidentsevery year. Japan is now one of the countries with the safest traffic networkin the world, while its people have very good road sense. The number oftraffic-linked deaths has shrunk to around 4,000 a year.-VNA
