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More than 4,500 items, including ceramics, stone axes, coins, mollusc shells dating back to the 3,000-year-old Sa Huynh Culture, were found during a two-month excavation in the garden of the Khue Bac Communal House in Da Nang.

More than 300 artifacts dating from over a thousand years ago are on display in the provincial museum of the northern province of Ninh Binh from January 20-24.

Police of the central province of Thanh Hoa detained two individuals who trafficked two bricks of heroin (about 350gr each) and injured three police officers on late January 7.

Approximately five kilometres off the centre of Tay Giang district, the Porning village which has a population of 500, still preserves the traditional culture, arts and customs of their ancestors. In fact, even some of the practices in their community are based on the past rituals of their forefathers.

In his interview to the Vietnam News Agency after coming back from the freshly-ended 13 th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Vinh further said that there were two major issues raised at the dialogue, namely negative signs of regional security and the behaviours of some countries getting off the track of the common moral standards and flow of the era.

While the King people are celebrating the Lunar New Year, the ethnic Black H’mong group in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien greeted Tet several weeks ago.

If you see little girls wandering through the Sa Pa market with brocade bags and jungle knives, they are probably tour guides.

Growing demand for coconuts pushed a co-operative leader in the Mekong delta province of Ben Tre to invent a machine that can break open the thick-shelled fruit in far less time than the standard method.

Several artefacts from the Dong Son culture, which existed about 2,000 years ago, were handed over to Lao Cai Museum on November 20.

The fifth annual show of Vietnam’s traditional music and martial arts entitled “Mother and Sea” took place in the French city of Orsay on November 11.

The SUPPORT Arts and Crafts International Center of Thailand (SACICT) has launched the “Capital of Arts & Crafts” campaign with the purpose of expanding the Thai handicraft market to foreign countries.