Localities in the Central Highlands received praise for their efforts over the last decade to preserve and promote the cultural practices surrounding the use of gongs.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak received over 82,000 visitors during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday this year, up 55 percent compared with last year.
Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have devised a series of measures to preserve and promote cultural identities of ethnic minority groups.
Over 300 documents, images and artifacts on the distinctive gong culture of Vietnam's Central Highlands are currently on display at an exhibition at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Dak Lak.
Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have devised a series of measures to preserve and promote cultural identities of ethnic minority groups.
Tugging rituals and games of Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines and the Republic of Korea were added to the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on December 2.
Central Highlands provinces have undertaken various measures in a bid to
preserve and uphold values of the cultural space of gongs – part of the
world’s intangible cultural heritage.
Youths from many villages in Yang Bac commune, Dak Po district in the
Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, are raising funds to preserve and
promote gong culture.
The value of gong culture, a distinctive feature of the Central
Highlands and a piece of world intangible cultural heritage, is
vividly cherished through a festival kicked off in the regional province
of Lam Dong on April 24.
Exchanging two buffalos for a gong set is a vivid example of how the
intangible heritage has effectively been preserved in the Central
Highlands province of Gia Lai.
International and domestic r esearchers and artists of folk music
presented suggestions about how to preserve and promote Bai choi singing
at a workshop on October 29 in central Quang Nam province.
Over the past two decades, eight sites and eight cultural practices in
Vietnam have been inscribed in UNESCO’s lists of world tangible and
intangible heritage, while four national documentary heritage were added
to the Memory of the World list.
The best 100 photos selected from the 2014 Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards
are being displayed at a four-day exhibition which opened in Ho Chi
Minh City on October 22.
Bai choi singing in the central provinces of Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and
Quang Nam was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in late
August, a move expected to facilitate the application for recognition of
the folk singing as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2016.
The cultural life of ethnic minority people in Hanoi’s outlying Ba Vi
district has seen positive changes after the one-year implementation of a
project to preserve, restore and develop the culture of local ethnic
groups in the 2013-2015 period.
Vietnam views the UPR as an effective and successful mechanism of
the Human Rights Council in human rights promotion and protection,
Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc has said at the 18th session of
the Human Rights Council UPR working group.
Culture - Sports
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
