The British Council is to award the best eight of 400 entries to a painting contest on Hanoi by primary school children attending its English courses.

The contestants depicted sites around the capital and the daily lives of ordinary Hanoians to mark the capital’s millennium anniversary in October.

The awards ceremony will take place on July 24.

The child painters will also take part in art performances in English at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre.

Gaynor Evans, Deputy Director of the British Council’s Teaching Centre, said that the event aims to nurture children’s creativeness, their thirst to study and their love of the English language.

The British Council began its operations in Vietnam in 1993.

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