Vietnamese lawyer named in 2019 Class of Asia Young Leaders
Ta Ngoc Van, Chief Lawyer at a Hanoi-based charity organisation that rescues women and children in crisis, has been named in the 2019 Class of Asia 39 Young Leaders by the Asia Society from the US.
Washington (VNA) – Ta Ngoc Van, Chief Lawyerat a Hanoi-based charity organisation that rescues women and children incrisis, has been named in the 2019 Class of Asia 39 Young Leaders by the Asia Society from the US.
The 13th class is made up of 39 leaders under the age of 40 from 31 countries across the AsiaPacific region. This year’s list includes activists, artists,educators, journalists, scientists and social entrepreneurs.
At the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, Van has workedto secure the freedom of victims of human trafficking and provide them withlegal advocacy.
He was honoured by the Ministry of Public Security as“Hero of the Year” in 2015 for his contributions to rescuing more than 400 trafficked children and women in policeoperations across northern provinces.
Van wasalso the first to win the Trust Women Anti Trafficking Hero Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation the same year.
The 2019 class will meet on November 15-17 in San Franciscoand Silicon Valley, at the annual Asia 39 Young Leaders Summit. The summit –the first to be held in the US – will carry the theme “Technology & Humanity: Roadmaps for the Future.” Sincethe first Asia summit, held in Seoul in 2006, the initiative has connectedpeople from the region and facilitated collaboration in tackling commonchallenges.
Besides Van, thisyear’s Asia 39 Young Leaders include Megha Rajagopalan, a 2018Human Rights Press Awardee and an international correspondent for BuzzFeedNews; FarhadWajdi, who helped build a school in a refugee camp in Pakistanat the age of 14 and later founded a non-profit organization that challengesgender inequality in Afghanistan; and Shahab Shabibi, anIranian based in the Philippines, who provides financial and management supportto new enterprisers.
Founded in 1956, AsiaSociety is a non-partisan,non-profit organisation that works toaddress a range of challenges facing Asia and the world.
Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education,and policy, it provides insight, generates ideas andpromotes collaboration between Asia and the world.–VNA
Two founders of Vietnamese tech companies were listed in the Southeast Asia’s top 30 tech founders this year by technology and start-up platform techinasia.com.
Four Vietnamese firms have been named in this year’s Global 2000 list by Forbes, an annual ranking of the world’s biggest and most powerful public companies.
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Ta Ngoc Van (Photo: Reuters) 
