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The Central Highland Province of Dak Nong's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with UNESCO's representative office in Hanoi, recently held a conference to review progress during the 2007-2008 period in the ongoing project to preserve the cultural heritage of gong music, and to set forth orientations for 2009. At the conference, cultural workers, experts and artistic groups shared their experiences in teaching traditional gong music, establishing and maintaining gong music clubs and festivals and measures for preserving gong culture, as well as how best to organize gong music classes. Source: VH, Cpv … [Read more...] about Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Gong Music in Dak Nong Province

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong has asked the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to preserve the cultural identity of local ethnic groups, as well as improve their spiritual and physical life. The NA leader also emphasised further development of the province’s economic sectors while working with provincial authorities during his tour to Dak Nong on March 12 and 13. The province should ensure social security and create a stable environment for investment, he noted. Chairman Trong particularly noted the important of fast, but sustainable, development in combination with environmental protection. Local authorities say that Dak Nong will strive to attain economic growth of over 15%, and per capita GDP of US$ 800 per year in addition to improving economic policies to raise industrial production value to 48.6% of total local revenues by 2010 and services to 22.5%.  Toward this end, the province has proposed that the Government soon implement the Dak Nong … [Read more...] about Dak Nong seeks cultural preservation, economic development

(Cinet)- Deputy chairman of the Central Highland Dak Nong provincial People’s Committee, Y Thinh said that, the province has decided to extract 5 billion VND from the budget to extend the implementation of the project to preserve and promote festivals, gongs and folklore musical instrument of the M’nong ethnic minority group. The project will be extended for five years. Since the implementation of the project in 2005, 17 festivals have been reinstated. It has also enabled 564 young people from the M’nong ethnic minority group to learn how to play the gong and other traditional musical instrument. Nearly 100 N’nong girls learnt how to weave brocade.  The Dak Nong cultural sector also collected, translated and published several folklore literature and arts books as well as coordinated with a project on the preservation of the cultural space of the gong in the Dak Nong province funded by the Norwegian government to … [Read more...] about Dak Nong: Extends time for the Preservation project of M’nong ethnic culture

(Cinet)- Dak Nong Provincial Museum has excavated archaeological sites in Nhan Co commune, Dak R'Lap district and discovered an ancient prehistoric jar. There were 36 items in the jar, comprising 16 working tools (hoes, axes), a cylindrical sketching object, 3 chocks and 20 pebble rocks. It is far 500 m to the East from this excavation site, the mission also discovered and collected 16 items, including hoes, sketching objects and pottery shards. After having studied, compared with the items collected before, Dak Nong Museum came to a conclusion that there were two prehistoric cultures existed in the above mentioned area, that was transition from post Paleolithic culture (more or less than 10,000 years ago) to the Neolithic culture (over 3500 years ago). … [Read more...] about Dak Nong: Discovering many prehistoric items

(Cinet) – On 2 June, in Da Lat city, representatives of the leadership of 2 provinces Lam Dong and Dak Nong carried out cooperating to develop commerce, tourism and media in 2011 – 2015. According to the content of the cooperation agreement, two provinces Dak Nong – Lam Dong agree to open tours from Lam Dong to Dak Nong via Mondunkiri of Cambodia through the border gate Bu Prăng of DaK Nong province. Besides, in 2011-2015, Lam Dong will support Dak Nong province in: training to nourish human resources for tourism industry, introducing experts in the industry to help Dak Nong to carry out scheming to development tourism to be suitable.; holding to create favorable conditions to advertise to advertise visitors for two localities; supporting Dak Nong to participate in the forum, trade promotion conference, exhibition at the key markets which are Hanoi, Hochiminh city, Nha Trang, Hue, Da Nang, Can Tho….As for themselves, Dak Nong committed to providing Lam … [Read more...] about Lam Dong – Dak Nong: Cooperation and development in tourism industry