Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam has jailed four people from the mainly Christian Hmong ethnic group for their roles in an alleged separatist plot to overthrow the communist government, state media reported Thursday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.