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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently recognised several new items as national intangible cultural heritage, raising the total number to 228.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is allocating over 36 billion VND (1.58 million USD) to provide residential land for 1,474 poor local households of the Khmer ethnic minority group.

At least 18,500 Rohingya in Rakhine state of Myanmar have fled into Bangladesh in the last six days since fighting broke out between government military and insurgents.

The Southern Power Corporation under the Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVNSPC) is planning to build 53 more 110 kV power projects in southern provinces and cities, bringing the total number of works in 2017 to 79.

Czech President Milos Zeman expected that his upcoming visit to Vietnam in early June will produce fruitful outcomes, with economic cooperation high on the agenda of bilateral discussions.

Credit policy plays the key role in the country’s poverty reduction efforts with its main target being poor households and ethnic minority groups.

An international conference on Myanmar’s ethnic minority group Rohingya opened on March 14 in Malaysia, attracting the participation of 180 speakers and delegates from ASEAN and Muslim countries.

Tens of thousands of locals in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang as well as tourists flocked to Chiem Hoa district on February 4 to join the Long Tong (going to the field) festival, a unique and most typical agricultural festival of the Tay, a big ethnic minority group in the locality.

The second national cultural festival of the Mong ethnic minority group kicked off in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on November 18.

Craft villages of the Cham ethnic minority group in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan have become more and more attractive to tourists.

The Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic has enjoyed equal rights as other recognised foreign communities there, stated Hoang Dinh Thang, head of the Vietnamese Association in the country.

As many 300 gift packs were handed over to poor families from the Raglai ethnic minority group in the central province of Ninh Thuan on July 2.

More than 5,800 voters in three border communes in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau casted their ballots on May 15 to elect deputies to the 14th National Assembly.

A class on traditional culture of the Bo Y ethnic minority group in the northern province of Lao Cai will be held in the locality from May 11 to 13.

The maturity ritual (Cap Sac) of the Dao ethnic minority group in northern Thai Nguyen province was recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage at a ceremony on March 29.

The San Chay ethnic minority in northeastern Bac Giang province have preserved their wedding customs with cultural characteristics that have survived the test of time.

Party members and ethnics in the Central Highlands province of Dac Nong are pinning high hopes on the success of the 12th National Party Congress, taking place in Hanoi from January 20 to 28.

As many as 16 families of S’tieng ethnic minority group with difficult background in Bu Gia Map district of Binh Phuoc province have been presented with house worth over 800 million VND in total.