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additional favor on the magazine’sGold List.The Sofitel Legend MetropoleHanoi, Life Heritage Resort HoiAn, Evason Ana Mandara &Six Senses and the Park HyattSaigon all won inclusion on thevaunted list, which was releasedwith the January issue of themagazine. All four of these propertieswere recipients of Readers’Choice Awards.The Gold List is compiled usingdata collected during CondeNast Traveler's annual Readers'Choice Survey. The scores aregiven based on the percentage ofreaders who rate each propertyfeature (location, service, design,food, rooms and activities) as excellentor very good. A minimumnumber of responses is requiredto qualify for inclusion.New Mekong MerchantBistro opensMekong Merchant Saigon willlaunch their new venture – MMBistro – with an opening partyat 6.30pm on February 11. Thebistro at 23 Thao Dien Street,An Phu Ward, District 2 will beopen for breakfast, lunch anddinner and also has a selectionof snacks and tapas. MM Saigonand MM Bistro will also be holdinga special Valentines day dinneron Monday 14th of February.Dinner runs from 6pm to 10.30pm. Call 08 37446478, or emailinfo@mekongmerchant.com.Bumrungrad InternationalHospital RepresentativeOffices in VietnamBumrungrad is an internationalstandardhospital in Bangkok thatwas recently voted by Newsweekas one of the top 10 health caredestinations in the world. Rateda five-star facility and renownedfor its top-quality facilities andaccess to world-class technology,Bumrungrad annually treats about450,000 patients.There are two Bumrungradrepresentative offices in HCMCity—one located on the fifth floorof the TMS Building at 172 Hai BaTrung, District 1 and the other at136G Tran Vu, Ba Dinh District,Hanoi. Visit bumrungrad.vn.The Body Shop Making Dreams Come TrueKoibito fresh Nama ChocolateNama Chocolate has hit town with the release of Koibito, exclusivelyat MOF – Japanese Sweets & Café. Nama, meaning ‘fresh’ in Japanese,is a melt in your mouth chocolate sensation.Currently available in mild Cacao, Hazelnut, Grand Marnier &Special Blend Guanaja flavours, the chocolates are sold in 20-pieceboxes or a four-piece sampling box. Koibito Nama Chocolateswould make an ideal Valentines gift idea.Avaliable from MOF - Japanese Sweets & Cafe. 30 Le Loi BoulevardD1 & B3-14a Vincom Shopping mall.Cookies for a CauseGrace’s Cookies bake and sell cookies to raise money for peoplein Vietnam who desperately need it. The cookies are homebaked,using the best ingredients like imported vanilla, Hershey’schocolate, fine French butter.As all the baking and selling is done by volunteers, all profitsfrom Grace’s Cookies are donated directly to people in need.Since starting in early 2010, Grace’s Cookies have paid for eightlife-saving heart operations for desperately ill children in Ho ChiMinh City and the surrounding provinces.Working with Heartbeat Vietnam, VinaCapital’s charity program,Grace’s Cookies donate about 80 percent of the profits toassisting with the costs of heart surgery for young children. Theremaining 20 percent is reserved for rapid responses to urgentneeds such as regional flooding, storm damage, or disease.In 2011, Grace’s Cookies hopes to save the lives of around 60children with life-threatening heart disease.To find out more, place an order or see how you can getinvolved contact www.gracescookies.org, getinvolved@gracescookies.orgor call +84913 806111.Free Children's Health TalkMath Whiz at ABC International SchoolThe Body Shop have partnered with renowned holistic lifecoach Gloria Thomas to create a range of products calledDreams Unlimited. The Range includes Eau de Parfum 30ml(490.000VND) and 50ml (650.000VND), Body Wash 200ml(235.000VND), Body Lotion 200ml (325.000VND) and BodyButter 200ml (395.000VND). The products all contain ingredientsfrom the Body Shop’s Community Fair Trade programmethat assists small producers in developing countries. Availableat all Body Shop outlets.An ABC International School student, Park Je Young, 17,recently received the news that he had attained the highest scorein the world in the Cambridge IGCSE—an international mathexamination.Je Young learned of his amazing achievement when the CambridgeUniversity International Examination Board recently contactedthe management at his school. The examinations weretaken by hundreds of thousands of students in 120 countriesthroughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas in 2010. JeYoung puts his success down to continual hard work through theentire academic year.“This achievement will not only be beneficial for my universityapplication, but it will also make me much more confident inwhatever I do in the future. This result will also act as a greatmotivator for my further study at university and I am very gratefulto all of my teachers,” he said.On Friday, February 18 from 9:30am to 11am, Dr. Alain Gonthier,Chief Medical Officer of International SOS, the world's leadingprovider of medical assistance, international healthcare, andsecurity services will deliver a free health talk focused on children'shealthcare at Saigon Star International School, locatedin Residential Area No. 5, Thanh My Loi Ward, D2 in HCMC.Questions for the doctor are welcome. There is no charge forthis event, which includes free refreshments, but please call toreserve a seat as space is limited. Phone: 3742-32228 asialife HCMC