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As one of the two oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia, the village of Bau Truc is regarded as a museum where the traditional pottery trade of the Cham ethnic minority group is kept intact. Located near Highway 1A, Bau Truc Village, Phuoc Dan Town, Ninh Thuan Province, is just 10km south of Phan Rang-Thap Cham City. Around 85% of nearly 400 households in Bau Truc Village have been faithful to their traditional trade of making pottery products. A legend says that Poklong Chanh and his wife, Bau Truc pottery’s ancestors, passed their profession to female villagers a thousand years ago. To express their gratitude to the ancestors’ merit, the villagers yearly worship ancestor Poklong Chanh at the Kate Festival. Bau Truc pottery products are specially made of alluvial soil, taken from the Quao River, to make these products shiny and smooth. Unlike other trade villages using a turning table to create pottery products, Cham ethnic artisans always use their bare hands to … [Read more...] about Oldest pottery village in Southeast Asia

Bau Truc is one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia. Over 90 percent of some 500 families in Bau Truc village are making pottery. For the Cham ethnic minority people, ceramics are not only used as daily utensils, but more importantly, they are an intermedia for them to connect with gods. Local potters believe that their craft was founded more than a thousand years ago by Poklong Chanh, a man who refused to become a mandarin in order to stay at his village teaching housewives how to take clay and shape and fire it into utensils and decorative items. To show their gratitude toward the forefather of their craft, Bau Truc villagers built a temple dedicated to Poklong Chanh and pray for him during Kate, the Cham’s biggest festival held annually in the seventh lunar month. Truong Thi Gach, an 80-year-old potter who has been making ceramics her entire life, said her mother learnt the craft from her grandmother and then passed it down to Gach when she was 10. Gach is now … [Read more...] about Bau Truc – Perfect place for tourists to explore quintessence of Cham pottery

Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away. She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, spokesman David Tavella said. "There is great sadness but... it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it's a liberation," Tavella, of the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home, told AFP. The sister was long feted as the oldest European, before the death of Japan's Kane Tanaka aged 119 last year left her the longest-lived person on Earth. Guinness World Records officially acknowledged her status in April 2022. Randon was born in the year New York opened its first subway and when the Tour de France had only been staged once. She grew up in a Protestant family as the only girl among three brothers, living in the southern town of Ales. One of her fondest memories was the return of two of her brothers at the end of World War I, she told AFP in an interview on her 116th birthday. "It was … [Read more...] about World’s oldest known person dies aged 118: spokesman to AFP

Products of the Bau Truc pottery village of the Cham ethnic people in Ninh Phuoc district, south central Ninh Thuan province (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The inscription of the art of pottery making of the Cham people on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding will promote measures to preserve the heritage, create more sources for the preservation and promotion of the heritage’s value, and support economic and cultural development toward sustainability and inclusiveness in localities and residential communities. Inscribing Vietnam’s first craft The Chairman of the 17th session of the Inter-governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage hammers to recognise the art of pottery making of Cham ethnic people as the intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. (Photo: VNA) Ambassador Le Thi Hong Van, Chief Representative of the Vietnamese Delegation to UNESCO, said that the art of … [Read more...] about UNESCO-recognised Cham people’s pottery making art: Preserving unique craft

CAIRO -- Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and "most complete" mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader said on Thursday. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-metre shaft in a recently uncovered group of fifth and sixth dynasty tombs near the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Zahi Hawass, director of the team, told reporters. An Egyptian archaeologist restores antiquities after the announcement of new discoveries in Gisr el-Mudir in Saqqara, in Giza, Egypt, January 26, 2023. Photo: Reuters The mummy, of a man named Hekashepes, was in a limestone sarcophagus that had been sealed in mortar. An artifact is displayed after the announcement of the discovery of 4,300-year-old sealed tombs, which have made a number of important archaeological discoveries dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, also stated that the expedition had … [Read more...] about Archaeologist hails possibly ‘oldest’ mummy yet found in Egypt

Buffeted by political and legal headwinds, the 76-year-old Republican addressed a few hundred supporters at an intimate rally in South Carolina's capital Columbia after speaking to grassroots activists in Salem, New Hampshire. "The 2024 election is our one shot to save our country and we need a leader who's ready to do that on day one," Trump said from a podium beneath the Statehouse rotunda, flanked by American flags and some of his most loyal political allies. The events were seen as a chance to revitalize a stuttering campaign amid criticism over Trump's failure to make any public appearances since he announced his latest run in November. But there was no discernible shift in his messaging as he launched into his debunked claims of a stolen 2020 election and reprised his litany of disparaging nicknames for his political rivals. He touched on favorite culture war talking points, railing against critical race theory that he said was being taught in the military as well as … [Read more...] about Trump warns 2024 election ‘our one shot’ to save America

Gia Thuy pottery products The pottery is placed into a cool place before exposing to the sun Even the simple step like making clay requires workers to have meticulousy, skilfulness, good observation and creativity Even the simple step like making clay requires workers to have meticulousy, skilfulness, good observation and creativity Through each stage, the potters put their heart into the clay to complete a ceramic product Shaping products is conducted by experienced potters Through skillful hands of the potters, the clay was shaped into the object that they imagined Gia Thuy pottery is made from yellow-brown clay, which is only available in the village. This type of clay has high adhesion, smoothness and good heat resistance VNA … [Read more...] about Exploring Gia Thuy pottery village

The year 2023 will continue to see challenges such as geopolitical conflicts, trade tensions, high inflation, and the risk of anti-dumping duties on Vietnam's export products, according to deputy Minister Do Thang Hai. At the conference to deploy tasks for the year ahead at the European-American Market Department this week, deputy minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said that the trade surplus between Vietnam and the markets in the Americas region had reached a record of more than $102 billion last year. The import-export turnover between Vietnam and the markets of the Americas in 2022 saw positive growth to reach $153.9 billion, up 10.7 per cent compared to 2021. In which, Vietnam's exports to America's partners reached $128.2 billion, up 12.4 per cent. Meanwhile, Vietnam's imports from America's partners reached $25.7 billion, up 3 per cent on-year. Trade turnover between Vietnam and many major markets in the Americas region saw stable growth such as the United … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s trade surplus with Americas exceeds $100 billion

A Cham woman and Cham pottery works Binh Thuan, a tourist site in the central coastal province, does not own its popularity to attractive beaches, splendid sand dunes or deluxe resorts and spas, but rather to its renowned Cham minority craft village known as Go Hamlet by local Vietnamese or Play Gok by Cham minorities. For thousands of years, the generations in this hamlet, located at Tri Duc Commune, Phan Hiep Village , have grown up learning the pottery skills of their forefathers. Every day women knead the clay which the men take and mix with water and then mould on a very simple potter’s wheel made of wood. The final products are polished with a layer of clay water. Products are also fired in the traditional Cham way. First they are dried in the sunshine on vacant land next to the hamlet and then the locals collect straw and firewood to put around and into the products to fire them over night. From traditional models learned from older generations … [Read more...] about Cham Pottery from Go Hamlet in Binh Thuan

PANO - The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has inaugurated and handed over a pottery poster, named Truong Sa-Vietnam’s Power, to troops and people in Truong Sa Island district. This meaningful gift from the PetroVietnam Veterans Association and its affiliated units is designed and made by painters Nguyen Thu Thuy, Nguyen Hoang Tung, Trinh Ba Quat and Do Nhu Diem. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Chairman of Truong Sa Town People’s Committee Pham Van Hoa stressed that the painting, a new arts work on Truong Sa Island, is seen as a greeting to any guests of the island. The town’s cadres, troops and people will consider it the spiritual symbol of power of the national great unity. The arts work, 4.8m in height and 20m in length, is the combination of two pottery paintings and made from about 1 million of 2x2cm pottery tiles. It depicts 9 figures representing people from all walks of life with different professions side by side with each other to … [Read more...] about Pottery painting highlighting Truong Sa presented to troops