Hanoi, Nov. 13 -- Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong, former Director of the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies, has been elected foreign correspodent academician (Correspondant etranger) of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL - the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts) of France at the age of 45.

The election took place during the AIBL's plenary session on October 17, according to the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). Cuong has become the second Vietnamese scholar to receive this honour, following the late Professor Phan Huy Le.

Founded in 1663, the AIBL is one of the five academies under the Institut de France and is among the world's most prestigious scholarly institutions in the humanities, specialising...