Sa Pa tourism industry has put on the discovery tour with many products that are not new but different than many years ago. Visitors to the famous town of Lao Cai not only know about Fansipan, Cat Cat village, O Quy Ho pass peak, Ham Rong mountain but also experience many other types of culture. Sa Pa strawberry garden about 6 km from Sa Pa ward, in Ma Tra village, Ta Phin village, Sa Pa (near Ma Tra village primary school) is one of the destinations attracting the attention of young people and families. family. Strawberry fruiting season is usually from November to June next year, especially in the sunny months with many delicious and beautiful fruits. In the photo, Ms. Nha, a tourist from Hanoi, goes to pick strawberries. Although this time of May, the strawberries are not yet fully ripe, but each person can choose from 1-2 kg to bring home as a gift easily. In the garden, visitors are recommended to try a maximum of 2 fruits for free. Then they can pick them and bring them to the door to weigh in. The price of strawberries here is 250,000 VND/kg. Ta Phin rock garden is also a new place that attracts the attention of many tourists from far away when coming to Sapa. This place has an area of ​​​​over 12,000 m2, designed and planned into a closed chain of tourism products and services. In the rock garden, there are many species of natural and cultivated plants, and of course, a buckwheat flower garden is indispensable, attracting young people. It is known that tourism products and services at Ta Phin Stone Garden have been rated 4 stars by the provincial OCOP product rating and evaluation council. With this rating scale, for the first time, Lao Cai province has OCOP certified rural tourism products and services. The trend of forming shows to promote the culture of ethnic minorities in the highlands is also included in the tour by tourism units. In the photo is the performance “Spring day market” performed by Dao girls. The Dao leaf bathing is a tourism product that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. For each bath, visitors have to pay from 80,000 to 100,000 VND depending on the location of the bathtub you choose. The bathing location has a beautiful view, watching the nature, mountains and forests. Time for each guest to enjoy this unique medicinal drink from 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on demand. If you do not bathe, you can choose to soak the Dao leaves in the open air. The herbal remedy of the Red Dao people in Sa Pa includes more plants than that of other Dao groups, from 10 to 120 species, belonging to many different plant families and life forms. An outdoor dining session for a group of 200 tourists in Ta Phin village. The Dao girls stand to welcome and invite guests to enjoy a cup of unique medicinal tea of ​​their nation. While having a buffet dinner, everyone can watch the Dao wedding show by the campfire. According to custom, on the way to pick up the bride, the bride is covered with a red and black scarf, the bridesmaid uses a veil to cover the bride’s face. For the Dao people, the bride cannot see the sun because she is afraid of losing her soul and will have no luck in her later life. The show was performed quite elaborately in about 30 minutes with a relatively complete set of rituals and customs of a Red Dao wedding. Sa Pa has many attractive dishes, just hearing the name of many people have felt craving such as pig under armpits, seven-color sticky rice, kitchen buffalo meat, bitter bamboo shoots… All are offered for visitors to enjoy. In addition, the traditional stall dance performance of ethnic minorities is also held in many places, ready to serve visitors.

Illustration. Dragon Capital has always had a special interest in banking and real estate, which are the two industries with the largest market capitalization in Vietnam’s stock market. However, following recent developments shows that this group of funds is having a significant change, strongly selling real estate stocks and aggressively collecting banks. STRONG BANK Specifically, as of May 18, Vietnam Enterprise Investment Limited (VEIL), the largest investment fund in Vietnam with a scale of 2.14 billion USD, managed by Dragon Capital, allocated 31.4% of the portfolio to the banking group. increased sharply compared to the figure of 28.83% in early January 2021 and 29.8% compared to April. On May 18, VEIL’s NAV/Share value reached 10.57 USD, up 27.35% compared to the beginning of the year, this is an outstanding growth compared to the increase of the VN-Index which increased by 15.41. %, in USD. Top 10 largest investments of VEIL hold 4 banking stocks, including: VPBank accounting for 11.76%; ACB 9.22%; VCB 6.29%; TCB 3.65%. Most recently, on May 11, VIEL bought 1.5 million shares of VpBank. Besides VEIL, other funds of Dragon Capital such as DC Developing Markets Strategies Public Limited Company purchased 600,000 shares of VPB; CTBC Vietnam Equity Fund and Norges Bank bought 500,000 shares; Samsung Vietnam Securities Master Investment Trust (SSMIT) bought 50,000 shares. Thus, through member funds, Dragon Capital bought a total of 3.15 million VPB shares, estimated to spend 200 billion dong, thereby, raising the bank’s ownership rate from 4.99% to 5.12%, becoming the only major shareholder of VPBank. Previously, in mid-April, Norges Bank and SSMIT also bought a total of 9 million ACB shares out of a total of 10 million registered shares. The remaining one million shares could not be bought because ACB ran out of foreign room. Prior to the purchase, neither Norges Bank nor SSMIT owned any shares in ACB. After the transaction, the ownership ratio of these two funds at the bank increased to 0.396% and 0.017% respectively. If calculated according to the market price of ACB shares during the transaction period, two member funds of Dragon Capital may have spent about 300 billion VND to buy 9 million ACB shares. RUN FROM REAL ESTATE GROUP In the opposite direction, Dragon Capital fund group continuously sold real estate and construction stocks. Specifically, Dragon Capital group continued to divest from Ho Chi Minh City Technical Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Company. During the period from April 20 to May 13, member funds including Amersham In Industries Limited, SSMIT, Norges Bank continuously sold out with a total of more than 6.3 million shares. After the transaction, Dragon Capital group reduced its total ownership in CII to 7.64%, equivalent to more than 18.2 million CII shares. Not only CII, Dragon Capital also recently continuously sold KBC shares of Kinh Bac Urban Development Corporation in the context that this share price plummeted to 32,000 VND/share compared to the historic peak price in January. is 45,000 VND/share. On May 6, this group of funds sold 2.56 million KBC shares and on May 12 continued to sell 1 million KBC shares, reducing their ownership ratio from 7.5% to 6.7%, equivalent to with 31.9 million shares remaining. In April, this fund group also worked hard to sell KBC shares. Dragon Capital’s continuous selling was also in KDH shares of Khang Dien House Trading and Investment Joint Stock Company. On April 19, Dragon Capital announced a net sale of 1.86 million KDH shares, of which Grinling International Limited’s member fund sold 2 million shares and Norges Bank bought 142,900 KDH shares. After the transaction, the total ownership of Dragon Capital group in KDH decreased from 10.21% or 57.07 million shares to 55.21 million shares, or 9.8%. At Dat Xanh Group Joint Stock Company, a group of large shareholders Dragon Capital also sold 3.78 million shares of DXG in mid-March, reducing its ownership ratio from 17.3% to 16.6% in Dat Xanh. Dragon Capital’s largest fund allocates its portfolio to many large-cap real estate stocks. Along with selling down the proportion of midcap stocks in the real estate industry, Dragon Capital allocated more portfolio to this industry blue chip with typical codes like VIC of Vingroup, VHM of Vinhomes, and NVL of Novaland with respective proportion 8.78%, 5.68% and 3.7% in VEIL’s portfolio. In the investment proportion of VEIL, the real estate group also decreased from 27.24% to 27.03%. Dragon Capital has always had a special interest in banking and real estate, which are the two industries with the largest market capitalization in Vietnam’s stock market. In 2021, these two industry groups also stand out with the story of capital increase, which is expected to raise the share price of these two industries from now until the end of 2021. However, many securities companies believe that residential real estate can increase the proportion, but the banking group should be careful because the outlook has partly reflected in the price. Bank stocks during the past time have grown continuously, cash flow will most likely find other groups with better growth stories such as steel, agriculture, real estate…

Robert Hoge with his beautiful wife and little angel.

Born with a deformed shape

According to the Daily Mail, 44 years ago, science did not have a scanner or ultrasound so Robert was not examined during pregnancy. He was born with a very weak constitution, an abnormal face shape like a “monster” when there was a giant tumor, the size of a tennis ball right between his eyes. Robert’s leg was so deformed that doctors had no choice but to amputate it.

This was a big shock to the family. Robert’s mother, Mary seemed dumbfounded to her eyes, she was scared to look at the baby, unable to come close, to hold him even once. She was so shocked that the whole family left the little boy in the hospital to volunteer to take care of and return home.

In fact, the Australian woman was scared. Mary confided to her sister: “My son is very ugly, I fear even at first glance, it is my obsession, I cannot feed him.” Met with criticism from her sister, being asked about the baby by many people, Mary did not have the courage to admit she left her in the hospital. She realized that she had to take her home, poor little son. She tried to overcome the overwhelming psychological shock, and went to the hospital to pick up her child. Since then, Robert also has another nickname “Ugly” (meaning ugly).

Robert Hoge has an ugly, disfigured face.

When he was interviewed later, Robert Hoge painfully admitted that his mother sometimes only wished that her son died as soon as possible to get her out of the nightmare of life. “In my mother’s diary, she wrote that I wish I had died and told the nurses that she did not want this child. However, overcoming the emotional shock, my mother decided to raise me, a child with serious medical conditions, ”said Robert.

Life is never easy

However, life is never easy for Robert. When he was 4 years old, he was taken to discover a center, he was very happy to go out, explore the world around him. He was bought by his mother for a veil that only reveals his eyes, he is very excited and thanks to his mother’s gift.

At the same time his family went to a strange place, he trembled when he saw all the strange machines, he was measured his face by uncles in white and examined all over his body. Now his mother said that I was going to undergo a surgery, I would look healthier and cuter. He innocently thanked his mother. He just wanted to turn to hug his mother, to be sullen even once, but his mother hurriedly stood up. A little bit sad, but Robert leaned his mouth open again toward his mother, as if thanking her so much.

Despite the pain, he still tried to make his mother happy, he didn’t want to make her worry even once. He told her she was very well, I was fine. Robert Hoge underwent several surgeries after giving birth, one of which was surgery to remove a facial tumor that had grown almost the size of a tennis ball. Unfortunately, the aftermath of the surgery and his physical condition was unbearable, he was forced to amputate both legs to make room for the prosthetic legs. Since then, it has become more difficult for him to walk. Her face was haggard because of the unruly undulations of the gauze.

The young Robert Hoge was a child with his parents.

During the time he was growing up, he constantly received ridicule and alienated words from the people around him. Once his mother let him go out to meet a friend, Robert was very happy to be able to rarely take out his face veil to catch the sun. The neighbor saw him rushing into the house and crying like he had a nightmare. Robert hurriedly covered his towel and wandered into the house.

When he became a boy big enough, Robert realized his difference, it was time to go to school, everyone looked at him scared, the brothers and sisters just played together without playing with him, his mother loved him. but only far away, seldom near. However, instead of self-esteem and embarrassment, Robert cultivates a great source of strength to accept his own ugliness, to deal with the barriers that always separate Robert from others.

From a very young age, Robert always tried to actively study and take care of himself so that people do not have to struggle. He saw that the whole family talked about something about him, he was very happy and innocently thanked everyone who loved him. Robert often watched his brothers and sisters play through the windows, quietly helping his mother pick up vegetables while she was away. He stayed in his room alone, never crying or nagging his mother.

When Robert was 10 years old, his parents spoke openly, honestly about their feelings when Robert was born. Although he knew that at first his parents were reluctant to bring him home, Robert said he did not feel hurt but was happy that his parents were frank with him. Robert believes that the family has brought the best things with love and sincere care.

Appearance doesn’t determine life

After years of struggling with surgeries, painful and endless, when he was most tired, he came back to himself. When Robert was 14 years old, he didn’t want to change any more. After going through 24 surgeries in his life, Robert Hoge decided to stop, he wanted to accept himself, he didn’t want to go through the pain to hide his defects. “I think it’s not worth risking my life just for the sake of getting into the crowd. The difference in appearance is not as important as how you live, ”said Robert.

Whispering words or stares did not discourage Robert, on the contrary, he tried to find more opportunities to interact with people. Robert is the first in his family to go to college, hoping that he will get a good job, regardless of his family in the future. After graduating from school, Robert began writing and publishing books about his own life experiences to inspire and energize others.

Barriers to appearance have never rolled Robert up in life.

Since deciding to live with himself, Robert has removed his veil and come into contact with the plants. He went to the garden, met his neighbors. He bravely did many useful things for the community. When someone panicked when he met him, Robert softly apologized and lowered his head. Every day passed like that, when everyone got used to the deformed face, he was able to raise his head high and see the world around him without fear of making people afraid.

A feeling of happiness crept through each cell, something that he had never experienced such a free, happy feeling before. Maybe for you it is very normal, but for Robert, through the ten spring and summer, the experience was as great as all of his life.

Time passes by, the boy Robert is now grown up. Whenever he had the opportunity to talk to everyone, he was very cheerful, friendly, and his way of sharing was humorous and profound. Everyone turned from fear to compassion, watching his face reappear so much emotional loss and experiencing so much physical pain.

When he turned 30, Robert married a woman named Kate, an ordinary girl who loves a man because of her extraordinary talent and energy. Currently, Robert lives with his wife and two daughters in Wynnum, a beautiful suburb on the shores of Moreton Bay, Australia.

Robert Hoge has also spent time writing, becoming a speaker who delivers a positive message to everyone, even serving as a political advisor to the former Governor and Deputy Governor of Queensland. He wrote “Ugly” (Ugly), released in 2013, detailing his own journey, his different experiences of overcoming difficulties in life.

Robert is now 47 years old, he continues his meaningful path. Today, he has become a famous speaker around the world. Over the years, he realized that the surgeries weren’t helping him, instead it was the joy in his mind, what he could do for everyone was the best thing.