Photo exhibition on Bru – Vân Kiều people opens at Fine Arts Museum

A photo exhibition about the life and religion of the Bru – Vân Kiều ethnic group in Viet Nam has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

Visiting Đoòng village in Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng

Đoòng village in Tân Trạch commune, Bố Trạch district, Quảng Bình province, is home to the Bru-Vân Kiều ethnic minority group. The village is on a flat mound in the middle of a valley close to Én Cave and Sơn Đoòng Cave. With 10 households and about 42 members, the village is isolated and a mystery to tourists and travellers.

Obscure minority brought to light

Gabor Vargyas was the first foreign anthropologist to study the Bru Vân Kiều people in the central region of Việt Nam in depth.

Huế to hold regional festival of ethnic culture

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is to send art troupes to the regional folklore festival to be held later this month in Đà Lạt.

Photos of Bru - Vân Kiều people on display

About 70 photos are on display at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology to show the lives of the Bru - Vân Kiều ethnic people of central Việt Nam.

Dance contest puts ethnic culture on show

The first Vietnamese professional minority ethnic dancing contest was held last week in Hà Nội.

Ethnic cultural festival to be held in Haø Noäi

Activities featuring the traditional culture of ethnic families in the north central region will be organised at the Việt Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hà Nội for two days, starting next Monday.

Scholars discuss SEA's transient peoples Scientists from around the world came to Ha Noi to attend a workshop yesterday to discuss "Ethnographic approaches to cross-border livelihoods" in Southeast Asia.

Students in mountainous region learn traditional ethnic music A class on the traditional music of the Bru-Van Kieu ethnic minority group began on Tuesday at a secondary school in a mountainous district of the central province of Quang Binh.

Stone Age axes found in central province Ancient stone axes have been found in the mountainous commune of Truong Xuan in Quang Ninh District in the central province of Quang Binh, according to the provincial museum.