VOV.VN - The musical instruments of Vietnam’s ethnic minority groups are on the verge of disappearing. Most of the artisans who make them are old. But some of them are working hard to teach younger generations to make and play the instruments. 

VOV.VN - Over the course of the weekend, I dropped in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. According to the local people, the city was best known in its original name, Saigon. 

VOV.VN - The New Rice celebration is the most important ritual of the year for the Xo Dang.

VOV.VN - May Mohab began researching about Vietnamese water puppets in 2008 for her thesis and since then has remained passionate about this form of art. Vietnamese water puppets are being introduced for the first time to the world by a team of 10 artists of the Cairo Puppet Theatre. 

VOV.VN - The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism was inaugurated in October 2010, coinciding with the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. The village is an excellent place to learn about Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups. 

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups begins a series on the Xo Dang, an indigenous people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands.

VOV.VN - Large eye-catching panels, funny commercial son TV, colorful flyers and brochures are types of modern advertising you see every day. But people still reserve a special place in their hearts for one of the earliest forms of advertising: the distinctive call of the street vendor.

VOV.VN - Van Lam village in Ninh Binh province is one of the most famous embroidery craft villages in Vietnam. Its products are popular with consumers here and abroad.

VOV.VN - Churu culture leaves visitors to Vietnam’s Central Highlands with unforgettable memories. The Churu people have faithfully preserved their traditional costumes, folklore, and handicrafts.

Phuc Sen commune in Quang Uyen district, Cao Bang province has become known as the homeland of the Nung An ethnic group with signature stone fences in front of their houses. 

VOV.VN - The Chu-ru are one of several indigenous groups living in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.

VOV.VN -  Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has launched an action program to preserve and promote the practice of Mother Goddess Worship, a cultural intangible heritage of humanity.  

VOV.VN - Over years, the Vietnamese concepts of love and marriage have evolved. Nowadays, single mothers, cohabitation, same-sex marriage, and sex before marriage are becoming more accepted.

VOV.VN - Dao Xa village in Ung Hoa district, 50 km from the center of Hanoi, is famous for making musical instruments. 

VOV.VN - The New Rice celebration is a time-honored tradition of ethnic groups in the Truong Son range.

VOV.VN - The Gie Trieng have a population of 33,000 people living mainly in the northern part of the Central Highlands.

Jr. NBA, the US National Basketball Association (NBA)’s global development programme for youth basketball players, coaches and league administrators, has returned to Vietnam for a fourth consecutive year.

VOV.VN - The Gie Trieng have developed a unique culture while adopting cultural features of other groups in the northern Central Highlands.

VOV.VN - Mother Goddess worship, or Dao Mau”, is very popular belief in an agriculture-based country like Vietnam, where farmers strongly depend on nature. 

VOV.VN - The H’re love singing.  They sing anywhere and anytime: at work, in leisure time, and at festivals. They have developed unique and diverse singing genres, typically Kaleu and Kachoi.

VOV.VN - The Dao San country fair in Phong Tho district, Lai Chau province is busy and colorful on spring days. At this time of the year, groups of H’mong, Dao, and Ha Nhi flock to the Dao San market on Chung Sua Dan mountain to trade their specialties.

VOV.VN - The H’re grow wet rice and other crops on terraced fields. Their religious practices are associated with rice. 

Down a small alley in Saigon, Pasteur Street Brewing Company is where American John Reid and his friends stun people with their variety of 'strange' craft beer made from Vietnam’s tropical fruits.

VOV.VN - H’re ethnic people have long been living in the southern part of the Truong Son Mountain Range.

VOV.VN - Bamboo hedges and village gates symbolize the autonomy of Viet villages. In the past, virtually all daily activities of Vietnamese villagers occurred within the space demarcated by the bamboo hedge.

VOV.VN - An outgrowth of wet rice civilization, Viet villages are characteristically agricultural villages.  The structure of a Viet village is adapted to rice farming and constitutes Vietnam’s typical rural space.  

VOV.VN - The Kho Mu practice many rituals and ceremonies each year: worship of the hamlet’s genie and ancestors and festivals to welcome new crops and the Rice Mother. 

VOV.VN - Tom call-and-response singing is the most popular folk singing genre of the Kho Mu.  

VOV.VN - For the last three years, Mr. Yasushi Ogura from Japan has visited Lung Cu, Dong Van, Ha Giang province every month. 

Dick Hughes (Actor, Humanitarian & Loose Cannons, Inc. Founder) has recently made a trip to Vietnam with the purpose of helping Vietnamese street children who are still suffering from the lingering pains caused by Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin as war legacy.