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Exhibitions highlight Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos
  • | vietnamplus, dtinews.vn | April 27, 2013 02:26 PM

Authorities in Danang province have invited foreign reporters as well as hundreds of foreign guests to attend an exhibition on Hoang Sa archipelago.

 
 Da Lon Island, Truong Sa archipelago
The exhibition marks the Liberation Day-May Day holiday and officially opens on April 29 and will run until May 15.

The exhibition shows maps of the island group between 1626 and 1980 from Britain, France, Germany, Canada, the US and Hong Kong and were donated by Tran Thang, an overseas Vietnamese from the US.

There are also three Chinese maps published in 1908, 1919 and 1933 which showed China's border ended at Hainan Island.

Reporters from AFP, Reuters, Yonhap and others will be attending the event.

On April 26, Binh Dinh provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism also opened an exhibition to display some 16 maps, recitations from old books and other documents about Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.

More than 100 photos featuring Hoang Sa and Truong Sa before and after 1975 are also on show at the exhibition.

The central province of Thua Thien Hue is also hosting an exhibition of 60 photos and articles reflecting the lives of people and soldiers in Truong Sa island district.

Three veterans, who used to be stationed in Truong Sa, were invited to the event to tell visitors about their work and life in the archipelago.

After the exhibition, these photos and documents were presented to a school in Phu Vang district to serve as materials for extracurricular programmes.

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