The Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the standing board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, launched a text message campaign on August 17 to pool support for the impoverished nationwide.
The Vietnam Educamp 2019, a forum on education, was held in Hanoi on August 17, giving a chance for educators and experts to share their ideas, experience and research results on issues related to education at all levels and vocational training.
It is crucial to design special policies for ethnic minority community, especially women, to access equal opportunities, stated head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai.
A programme encouraging young people to share their viewpoints on educational reform was held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 11, in celebration of the International Youth Day 2019.
Vo Anh Kiet, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, has visited Islamic Cham people in Chau Phong commune, Tan Chau town on the occasion of their traditional Roya Haji festival.
The fifth Vietnam-International Silk and Brocade Festival opened in Hoi An silk village in the ancient city of the same name, the central province of Quang Nam, on August 8.
Vietnam’s ethnic minority groups are to be empowered to develop policies involving their communities.
Ninety children of 19 ethnic minority groups in Dien Bien province gathered at the Children’s Forum jointly held by the provincial People’s Committee, the World Vision Vietnam and the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation in the northern mountainous locality on July 31.
An overall plan is being built to boost socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous and particularly disadvantaged areas.
A house displaying lithophones was inaugurated on July 30 in Dak R’Moan commune, Gia Nghia town, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.
Tay Ninh province should optimise its potential to serve socio-economic development and improve material and spiritual life of locals, Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said on July 23.
The Government’s Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs and the UN Women in Vietnam held a conference in Hanoi on July 11 to give ideas to the draft national review report on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, one of the world’s most comprehensive documents on gender equality and women empowerment.
Dong Dang International Railway Station in the northern border province of Lang Son was recognised as a tourist site on July 8.
Summer Vietnamese language classes opened on July 6 for youngsters in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
A wide range of cultural activities themed "Summer Flavour for Children" will take place throughout July at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi’s Son Tay township.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to support households from ethnic minority groups and poor locals in the northern province of Bac Giang in planting and taking care of forest in the 2019-2023 period.
When visiting Ta Su Choong commune in the northern province of Ha Giang in summer, tourists can enjoy the pristine natural landscape when local farmers let water flow over their terraced rice fields and lose themselves in the traditional culture of local ethnic minority groups.
Thousands of people flocked to the Mau Son national tourist site in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on June 16 for a tourism festival.
