Social development
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
Vietnam eats forests by planting large timber forests to sell carbon credits
In the story ‘We Have Eaten The Forest’ of a Montagnard village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, ethnologist Georges Condominas tells about the ancient way of ‘eating the forest’, which is to preserve the forest culturally. Nowadays, the descendants of characters in the story ...
Indigenous knowledge of forest turned into profit
Scientists assess that indigenous knowledge and forest resources along the Truong Son mountain range are significantly potential for its development if utilized properly. Moreover, today’s youth are also becoming interested in the indigenous knowledge when visiting forests, thereby spreading the message of forest protection further.As ...
Communities placed at centre of sustainable tourism development
Community-based tourism brings economic benefits to local communities, contributing to the effective preservation and promotion of natural and cultural resources of each region, in line with the trend of sustainable development. Community-based tourism is to be promoted in the Vietnam Tourism Development Strategy to 2030 in ...
Project to develop multi-use values of forest ecosystem to 2030 approved
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on February 29 signed a decision approving a project on developing multi-use values of the forest ecosystem to 2030, with a vision to 2050.The project aims to improve the efficiency of management and sustainable use of forest resources; create ...
Ha Giang ready for Mong Ethnic Cultural Festival 2023
The Mong Ethnic Cultural Festival and the Mong Khen Festival in 2023 are expected to attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to explore the unique cultural activities of the Mong people in the Ha Giang Stone Plateau.Ha Giang province in general and ...
Yen Minh
National programme helps reduce poverty
The National Target Programme for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021 – 2030 has created positive changes, making important contributions to hunger eradication and poverty reduction, and promoting economic development in many regions throughout the country.Up to now, localities ...
Second phase of support programme for ethnic minority groups launched
A seminar was held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on November 28 to launch the second phase of the programme titled “Reaching the Furthest Behind – Improving the quality of life of especially disadvantaged community groups in Ha Giang, Quang Tri and ...
Việt Nam to defend fifth national report on anti-racial discrimination convention
Việt Nam is going to defend its fifth national report on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) at a session in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 29 – 30. The report defence would be a chance ...
Seminar reviews maternal, child care in ethnic minority areas
The Ministry of Health held a seminar in Hanoi on November 6 to review the improvement of public healthcare, physical well-being of ethnic minority people and the prevention of child malnutrition, under Project No. 7 of the National Target Programme on Socio-economic Development in Ethnic ...
More special mechanisms proposed to speed up national target programmes
The Government has proposed the National Assembly allow the application of additional special mechanisms to remove difficulties and obstacles facing national target programmes, thus speeding up their progress in the coming time, according to Minister of Planning and Investment (MPI) Nguyen Chi Dung.The three underway national ...
