The Phan Chau Trinh Culture Foundation has announced awards foroutstanding people in the fields of culture and education, translation,research and Vietnamese studies.

The Phan Chau Trinh Awards2012 include a culture and education award each to educator Bui TranPhuong and artist Vu Duc Hieu, a translation award for Chu Tien Anh andPham Duy Hien, a research award for Vietnamese overseas professor LeThanh Khoi and a Vietnamese studies award for French professor PhilippeLanglet.

Phuong and Hieu are honoured for their contributionsto promoting education and preserving Vietnamese Muong ethnic culture.

Artist Hieu is being recognised for the Muong EthnicGroup Cultural Space Museum , which he established in 2007. It isthe first private museum in the northern province of Hoa Binh and theonly museum in Vietnam devoted to Muong culture.

Phuong isthe rector of Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City whichwas developed from a vocational school and gathers educators fromdiverse backgrounds.

She is a core faculty member for SIT(School for International Training) Study Abroad in Vietnam . She haslectured on gender and social change for SIT students and has ledinteractive discussions between SIT and local students at Hoa SenUniversity.

Anh and Hien will receive the award for theirtranslation works which have brought human knowledge quintessence toVietnamese readers.

Khoi is recognised for his research oncultures from the East to the West and Langlet for spending his wholelife studying and introducing Vietnamese history and culture.

The Phan Chau Trinh Culture Foundation, run by the Vietnam Union ofScience and Technology Associations, instituted the awards in 2007.

The awards honour national hero, poet and cultural expert Trinh, a native of central Quang Nam Province .

Born in 1872, Trinh was a reformer who fought in the resistancemovement against the French when he was very young. He devoted all ofhis life to the country's modernisation.

The award ceremony will be held on March 28 in HCM City./.