Vietnam officially launches food safety management system
The Ministry of Health’s Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) and the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety have announced the official operation of a comprehensive food safety management system in Vietnam on March 7.The announcement was the outcome of an ODA project between ...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people policy and rights
The Vietnamese Government recognizes 53 ethnic minorities. Other counts suggest the existence of more than 90 groups, amounting to approximately 10 million people, or nearly 10% of Vietnam’s population. Most ethnic minorities inhabit remote areas of Vietnam and have their own belief systems which are heavily tied ...
Global programme delivers health benefits for Vietnamese youth
More than 49,300 young Vietnamese have learned about risky behaviours and preventive measures associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), thanks to three years of instruction from the Young Health Programme (YHP).YHP is AstraZeneca’s global disease prevention programme, focusing on young people aged 10 to 24 living ...
Ethnic miniority traditional festivals
A story map represents 17 typical ethnic minority traditional festivals in Vietnam recognized as national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.Keep readingThai ladies dancing stalls at “Xen ban, Xen muong” festival Photo from dantocmiennui.vn ...
Mid-term 2024 Population and Housing Census: Collecting information on foreigners living in Vietnam for the first time
Implementing Decision No. 629/QD-TCTK, dated July 14, 2023, of the General Director of the General Statistics Office on the mid-term population and housing survey census for 2024, the GSO will begin collecting data from April 1 to April 30, 2024, in nearly 40,000 areas out ...
About us
Open Development Vietnam (ODV) is part of the Open Development Network, a coalition of organizations co-managing a common open data and open knowledge platform aggregating and sharing information, maps and data to illuminate development trends in the Mekong region at country and regional levels. The ...
Highlights on Gender and Ethnic minority in Vietnam
Gender disaprity within and between 53 ethnic minority groups and the majority Kinh people persists in almost all socio-economic aspects in Vietnam. Social norms for ethnic minority cultures typically value women and girls less than men and boys. Unpaid household tasks and duties are assigned, ...
Vietnam Ethnic group Profile
Vietnam is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, given its 54 recognized ethnic groups cohabiting in a relatively small landmass. Only seven of these groups—Kinh, Tay, Thai, H’mong, Muong, Nung, and Khmer—have populations over one million, while up to 12 ethnic ...
Viet Nam Renewable Energy Summit 2018
The Viet Nam Renewable Energy Summit 2018 (VRES 2018) will take place on March 26 to 28 in InterContinental Nha Trang in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang City.For more details, please visit here ...
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Vietnam’s civil society and ethnic minorities
In Vietnam, ethnic minorities are supported by a network of non-governmental organizations, known as “civil society”. Civil society includes international non-governmental organizations, Vietnamese mass organizations, Vietnamese umbrella organizations, Vietnamese NGOs, community-based organizations, and professional organizations, although professional organizations work rarely related to ethnic minority issues. ...
Project promotes gender equality among Bru-Van Kieu ethnic community
A workshop was held in the central province of Quang Binh on May 10 to introduce a project to improve access to vocational training to enhance the quality of human resources and economic empowerment, contributing to promoting gender equality for local women and female students ...
Politburo’s resolution boosts development in Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta is to become a region of comprehensive development, modern and uniform infrastructure system, and dynamic economic growth under the Poliburo’s resolution on the region’s socioeconomic development to 2045.In its planning, Long An set the target to become a dynamic economic hub in ...
Land classifications
Land in Vietnam is divided into extremely small parcels by world standards. The average agricultural landholding is 1,560 square meters per capita, which is less than one-third of standard holdings in Thailand or Cambodia. Up to 70% of rural households have land use rights to ...
