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2008 SEAMEO: Australia Press Award winner

SEAMEO-Australia Press award-winner for 2008, Ms Loan Nguyen of Vietnam visited Melbourne for two weeks in November, completing a program managed by Asialink. In the award’s tenth anniversary the theme was International Cooperation in Education, with the aim to explore the various forms of collaboration in education in Southeast Asia and how these improve the lives of the people of the region.

Ms Loan Nguyen is a current affairs reporter at The Business Forum Newspaper in Ho Chi Minh City. Before starting her career as a journalist, Ms Loan was a high school teacher for almost ten years.

Her award winning article detailed the difficulties of accessing quality education in rural Vietnam, telling the story of young students in the mountainous province of Lao Cai in northern Vietnam and the difficulties they face in attending school.

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