While the lives of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have improved over the years, efforts must be made to preserve their unique cultural identities, a top lawmaker has said.
Organisers expect to collect 50,000 blood units in the Chu Nhat Do 2021 (Red Sunday), a blood donation campaign that will be kicked off officially at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in in the capital on January 17.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of central Binh Thuan province and the provincial Military Command held a gathering with local religious dignitaries and exemplars of ethnic groups on January 6.
Brocade is considered a symbol expressing the cultural and spiritual lives of ethnic minority groups. To preserve this unique cultural trait, many localities have restored and developed the craft of brocade weaving in ethnic communities. Within the framework of the Vietnam Brocade Culture Festival, the traditional weaving profession was introduced to domestic and foreign visitors.
As many as 64 prominent young people with disabilities were honoured during a ceremony in Hanoi on December 28. Organised by the Vietnam Youth Federation Central Committee and the National Committee on Persons with Disabilities, the event aims to call for further support for youths with disabilities, and seek suitable and sustainable models for them to integrate into the society.
The northwest mountainous Ha Giang provincial People’s Committee and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have helped construct 26.5km of new rural roads connecting 17 hamlets of Yen Minh district and four other hamlets of Dong Van district.
The first ever festival highlighting the cultures of ethnic people in the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau in the capital city has attracted attention of Hanoians.
An exhibition featuring photos and documentary films about the ASEAN Community is taking place in the southern province of Binh Phuoc from December 15.
A three-day festival highlighting the cultures of ethnic people in the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau is set to bring excitement to Hanoians starting December 18.
Moc Chau plateau in the northern mountainous province of Son La in these days is covered with a pristine white color of apricot blossoms. In the gentle breeze, thin white petals fall down quietly, making visitors feel lost in the fairyland.
Extensive “tam giac mach” (buckwheat) flower fields have become a brand and tourist attraction of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. The flower is in bloom at year-end, adorning the Dong Van Karst Plateau with its romantic and gentle charm.
A total of 600 poor households of ethnic groups in four communes of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai which were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic received financial assistance to buy food and improve their livelihoods on December 4.
The second national ethnic minority congress looked back at a decade implementing a letter of resolve adopted by the first congress, which showed ethnic minority people’s trust in the leadership of the Party and State has unceasingly been consolidated; social harmony has been enhanced and the national unity bloc has grown solid.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc lauded ethnic minority groups nationwide for their contributions to the national construction and defence over the past years, while addressing the opening of the second National Congress of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities in Hanoi on December 4.
The Party and State have consistently considered ethnic affairs a strategic, long-term and urgent task, Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said on December 3.
The Yen Minh pine forest is a destination every visitor to the northernmost province of Ha Giang should come to if they don’t want to miss a poetic landscape to behold.