Crop blessing rite of the Ha Nhi

Crop blessing rite of the Ha Nhi

(VOVworld) – The Ha Nhi have many important ceremonies each year including the Lunar New Year festival, forest worship, and crop blessing rite. To Tuan describes the Ha Nhi’s crop...
Wednesday May 18, 2016

Wednesday May 18, 2016

(VOVworld) - We’ve received a lovely postcard and letter from Marlene Sherburne of the US. She wrote: “I haven’t written to you in some time and wanted to send you this card...
Street arts in Hanoi

Street arts in Hanoi

(VOVworld) – The second edition of the Street Art Fair was recently held at Hanoi Creative City, drawing many domestic and foreign artists and a large audience
Ninh Thuan restructures crops to fight droughts

Ninh Thuan restructures crops to fight droughts

(VOVworld) – The central coastal province of Ninh Thuan was hardest hit by the droughts in Vietnam. In recent years droughts have become increasingly severe due to climate change, negatively affecting agricultural...
Worship of hamlet genies

Worship of hamlet genies

(VOVworld) – Living in high mountains, the Ha Nhi depend largely on nature. They believe that genies have blessed them with a peaceful life and given them forests, water, rice, and other...
Traditional work of the Ha Nhi

Traditional work of the Ha Nhi

(VOvworld) – Settling in high mountains for hundreds of year, the Ha Nhi depend on agricultural production on terraced fields. They have well-organized irrigation systems and have mastered cultivation techniques on terraced...
Ha Nhi’s worship of the kitchen genie

Ha Nhi’s worship of the kitchen genie

(VOVworld) – The Ha Nhi consider water the source of life and fire the source of power. The woodstove space is the key spot in their house. They put a sacred...
The Hà Nhì ethnic group

The Hà Nhì ethnic group

(VOVworld) – The Hà Nhì ethnic group has about 21,700 people living in Vietnam’s northwestern provinces bordering China and Laos
Love at the Warming House

Love at the Warming House

(VOVworld) – Nguyen Quoc Phong founded the Warming House, a school for children in Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City, in 1999. The house has become a haven for visually...
Sustainable livestock farming in Ninh Thuan

Sustainable livestock farming in Ninh Thuan

(VOVworld) – Ninh Thuan province is vigorously restructuring its animal husbandry sector, focusing on livestock with high profitability. This has contributed significantly to improving local living conditions and is helping the...
The August Revolution inspires Vietnam’s renewal

The August Revolution inspires Vietnam’s renewal

(VOVworld) – The victory of the August Revolution in 1945 has always been an inspiration in national defense for generations of Vietnamese people. Lessons from the revolution 70 years ago on grasping opportunities...
Black Ha Nhi people in Lao Cai

Black Ha Nhi people in Lao Cai

(VOVworld) - 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%...