Ethnic minority women pick Shan tea leaves. Many tea trees are 100s of years of age.- File Photo HN – The lives of 100s of poor homes in Ha Giang's Mire Xuyen District have enhanced since their participation in creating organic tea within project started through the Vietnam Challenge Fund.The 2-year, US$575,000 initiative has trained a lot more than 700 homes in using organic tea farming methods and practices including crop rotation,
HN — The area of the Vietnamese population aged 25 to 55 with no schooling has fallen from 23 percent to under 1 percent in the last two decades, based on a study launched yesterday through the World Bank.The Viet Nam Top Quality Education for those Report presented an extensive picture of both accomplishments and difficulties in education throughout the final 2 decades, striving use a much deeper analysis of domestic primary and secondary schools, stated Keiko Sato, the planet Bank Portfolio and
The Chinese (Hoa) ethnic language will be included as an optional subject for children of the Hoa ethnic minority group, at general schools in Vietnam .
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) projects have helped improve drug and HIV awareness among ethnic minority people in four northern mountainous provinces since they were launched in 2008.
The Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs on Feb. 6 hosted a conference in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue to review ethnic work in 2011 and launch tasks for 2012.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will organize Tet celebrations featuring the nation’s customs through folk games, ethnic arts and traditional cuisine on January 28 and 29.
Lao Vice President Bounnhang Volachith received a visiting delegation of the Vietnamese Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs led by Minister-Chairman Giang Seo Phu in Vientiane on Dec. 28.
Provinces in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and 28 districts in six neighbouring provinces have outlined a plan that calls for changes to the educational system.
The Ministry of Education and Training should change the model of pre-college training for students from ethnic minority groups in the direction of increasing their time for study and improving the quality of the trainees, the National Assembly's Council of Ethnic Affairs has said.
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has asked Dak Lak Province to co-ordinate with its neighbouring localities to develop the Central Highlands as a destination for domestic and foreign investors.