The Khmer of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang rang in the New Year, Chol Chnam Thmay, with extra joy thanks to a bumper crop and benefits from Party and State social welfare policies.
The Chol Chnam Thmay Festival, which begins after the year’s first harvest, fell on April 13-16 this year.
The celebration featured many cultural programmes, including performances of traditional dance and music.
From April 11-13, the provincial authorities also visited and presented gifts to 65 Khmer pagodas and to veterans, heroic mothers and local academics, as well as cadres and families that served during the war.
The authorities praised contributions by Khmer monks, Achas and all Khmer people to national liberation in the past and to the current cause of socio-economic development.
Over the past few years, with the Party and State’s policies, nearly 90,000 Khmer in An Giang province have received special attention and incentives to upgrade rural infrastructure, including schools, medical stations, roads, bridges and electricity.
Tens of thousands of Khmer households have benefited from the government’s policies and programmes, such as Programme 135, aimed at reducing poverty in extremely disadvantaged communes around the country, and Programme 134, which provides housing and land for ethnic minorities. As a result, many poor Khmer households have escaped from poverty, and others have been granted houses and received land and jobs./.
The Chol Chnam Thmay Festival, which begins after the year’s first harvest, fell on April 13-16 this year.
The celebration featured many cultural programmes, including performances of traditional dance and music.
From April 11-13, the provincial authorities also visited and presented gifts to 65 Khmer pagodas and to veterans, heroic mothers and local academics, as well as cadres and families that served during the war.
The authorities praised contributions by Khmer monks, Achas and all Khmer people to national liberation in the past and to the current cause of socio-economic development.
Over the past few years, with the Party and State’s policies, nearly 90,000 Khmer in An Giang province have received special attention and incentives to upgrade rural infrastructure, including schools, medical stations, roads, bridges and electricity.
Tens of thousands of Khmer households have benefited from the government’s policies and programmes, such as Programme 135, aimed at reducing poverty in extremely disadvantaged communes around the country, and Programme 134, which provides housing and land for ethnic minorities. As a result, many poor Khmer households have escaped from poverty, and others have been granted houses and received land and jobs./.
