Opened on April 19, the Vietnam Ethnic Groups Cultural Festival promises to be a good chance to promote the cultures of 13 ethnic groups from eight cities and provinces in the north, centre and south of Vietnam. Yet, many of the event’s shortcomings have greatly disappointed the visitors.
Tag - ethnic
samedi 21 avril 2012
Vietnam’s ethnic festival sells…Chinese goods ?
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 21 avril 2012, 08:49 - News in english
mercredi 14 mars 2012
Vietnam jails eight Hmong for 'disturbing security'
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 14 mars 2012, 20:15 - News in english
HANOI — Vietnam has jailed eight Hmong people for taking part in a major gathering last year which the court described as a separatist ethnic movement, state media reported Wednesday.
jeudi 21 juillet 2011
Vietnam anthropology expert Georges Condominas dies at 90
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 21 juillet 2011, 20:45 - News in english
Georges Condominas, a French cultural anthropologist best known for his studies of the ethnic minority people of Mnong in Vietnam's Central Highlands, has died at 90 in France, Tuoi Tre reported Wednesday.
lundi 23 mai 2011
Vietnam says handling of ethnic unrest not violent
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 23 mai 2011, 20:31 - News in english
Foreign media reports that Vietnamese authorities used violence to disperse a gathering of thousands of Hmong ethnic minorities are "erroneous", the state-run Vietnam News Agency said today.
vendredi 13 mai 2011
Vietnam: 'extremists' detained in Hmong gathering
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 13 mai 2011, 20:48 - News in english
Vietnam's government said Thursday it detained "extremists" after rare unrest involving thousands of ethnic Hmong belonging to a religious group that assembled to await the arrival of their God.
mercredi 11 mai 2011
Vietnam's minorities more likely to be poor
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 11 mai 2011, 08:31 - News in english
Vietnam's minorities are far more likely to live in poverty than the rest of the population, the UN said Tuesday, singling out the northwest, where ethnic Hmong rallied for autonomy last week.
lundi 9 mai 2011
Vietnam officials : Babies die from poor conditions at protest camp
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 9 mai 2011, 08:37 - News in english
Hanoi - Three babies died during a week-long protest by the Hmong ethnic group for an autonomous region in a northern Vietnamese province, officials said Monday.
vendredi 6 mai 2011
Thousands of Hmong stage rare Vietnam protest
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 6 mai 2011, 08:37 - News in english
HANOI - Vietnam has deployed troops to contain a rare protest by ethnic Hmong Christians, some of whom were calling for an independent kingdom, diplomatic and other sources said on Friday, and the government indicated the unrest was still going on.
jeudi 5 mai 2011
Vietnam: Ethnic Hmong 'in mass protest in Dien Bien'
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 5 mai 2011, 08:57 - News in english
Thousands of ethnic Hmong people in Vietnam are holding a protest calling for autonomy in a rare outbreak of unrest, a local official tells the BBC.
lundi 14 septembre 2009
Vietnam Montagnards jailed up to 10 years
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 14 septembre 2009, 20:34 - News in english
HANOI — Vietnam has jailed three ethnic minority Montagnards for up to 10 years after finding them guilty of "undermining national solidarity", state media said on Monday.
mardi 2 juin 2009
Stereotypes linked to minority poverty in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 2 juin 2009, 20:38 - News in english
HANOI - Vietnam's ethnic minorities have a poverty rate more than five times that of the majority, and cultural stereotypes are partly to blame, a World Bank report issued Tuesday said.
mardi 14 avril 2009
Vietnam sentences 3 hill tribe protesters
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 14 avril 2009, 08:43 - News in english
A court official in Vietnam says three ethnic minority villagers have been handed sentences of up to 12 years in jail for plotting anti-government protests.
vendredi 5 septembre 2008
Vietnam sentences hill tribe villagers for protest
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 5 septembre 2008, 21:35 - News in english
A Vietnamese court has sentenced four ethnic minority villagers to up to six-years in jail for staging anti-government protests, state-controlled media reported Thursday.
