Scholar awarded for preserving ancient writing systemThe Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation on May 31 presented the annual Balaban Award to Bui Xuan Duc, director of HCM City’s General Science Library. — Photo from facebook of VNPFHe received the award for his contributions to preserving the ancient writing system. The Balaban Award is named after John Balaban, a poet and professor of English in the creative writing programme in North California, the United States. The Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation was established in the late 1980s to standardise the Chu Nom script for use in computers and on the internet. With the advent of Quoc Ngu - modern Romanised script--- in the 17th century, the Nom script gradually died out, with the French colonial government ordering against its use.

Source: VietNamNet News June 01, 2018 10:52 UTC