The Giay people care a great deal about marriage and the continuation of the family line but less concern about family’s wealth or poverty. For them, the most important things are morality, family tradition, and respect.
“Gia ra” is the biggest festival in a year for the Cor ethnic minority group, who live mainly in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Tay Tra and Tra Bong districts as they mark the end of a rice crop, traditionally lasting one year.
Legend has it that a poor young man named Lo went missing from his village. After some time his friends went to look for him and finally found him, dead by a stream with a Khen Be in his hand.
The Museum of central Binh Dinh province has announced the discovery of more than 600 precious items during a recent archaeological excavation of Champa ruins at Rung Cam (Forbidden Forest) site at Thu Thien Thuong village, Binh Nghi commune, Tay Son district.
Y’N Dong, a 116-year-old ethnic M’ Nong man living in Dak Song district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, has officially been recognised as the oldest man alive in Vietnam by the Vietnam Records Organisation (Vietkings).
(VOV) -This year’s H’Mong Khen (pan-pipe) festival, held during the National Day holiday on Dong Van Karst Plateau, Ha Giang province, attracted large numbers of visitors.
(VOV) -The space of gong culture in the Vietnam Highlands is home to cultures that value gongs. It spreads in the Central Highland provinces of Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, and Lam Dong.
The Party and State’s ethnic policies have come to life in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai, helping improve the living standards of residents, especially those from ethnic minority inhabited areas.
(VOV) - The H'Mong ethnic minority people’s traditional Khen (flute) festival is set to take place in Dong Van district, Ha Giang province on August 30-31 featuring a wide range of special activities.
As spring arrives in the northwestern region, it is the time when young H’Mong men ask their friends to help them to “steal or pull a wife”, an established local custom.
(VOV) - Mai Chau brocade has become a symbol of the local Thai people’s culture.
(VOV) -Pa Then ethnic women in northern mountain Ha Giang province have made constant efforts in preserving the cultural values of their group as the traditional craft is facing a risk of sinking into oblivion.
(VOV) - Hon village in Tam Duong district, which is home to Lu ethnic people, is a tourist attraction in the northern mountain province of Lai Chau for it has maintained indigenous culture for years.
(VOV) - In the northern mountain commune of Bat Xat of Lao Cai province, the Black Ha Nhi ethnic people live in 8 out of 16 villages, making up 54% of the commune’s population.
Kate festival, the largest of the Cham ethnic people in the central province of Ninh Thuan in the year, aims to honour male deities and ancestors who extended great help to people.
(VOV) -Traditional dishes of Vietnam’s ethnic minority groups were introduced at a food festival in the Vietnamese Ethnic Groups Culture and Tourism Village, Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi.
(VOV) -The Khmer ethnic minority people of the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh are fastidiously preparing for their traditional New Year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.
A H’Mong boy must ‘catch’ his wife, while a Thai boy has to ‘steal’ one, but among the Chu Ru ethnic people it’s the girls who do the taking.
Thousands of people gathered on February 16 at the Culture Tourism Village in Hanoi to enjoy activities from Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, as seen in their New Year celebrations.
(VOV) - Despite migrating to China more than 500 years ago, Kinh ethnic minority people still preserve their traditional Vietnamese cultural identity.
(VOV) - Ho Manh Giang, is the first and sole Pako ethnic minority man in Thua Thien-Hue province, to achieve an MA degree from a big US university.
