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/ February 27, 2021

Quang Binh gets new national intangible cultural heritages

The traditional rice farming ritual the Van Kieu ethnic minority in Quang Ninh District’s Truong Son Commune usually takes place on the 11th-14th days of the seventh lunar month. It is held to pray for a year of favorable weather and bumper crops. to pray for a year of favourable weather and bumper crops. The Van Kieu ethnic minority has been living along the Truong Sơn mountain range in central Vietnam for centuries. They have maintained so many ancient customs and traditions. The Nguon ethnic people mainly live in Minh Hoa District. The folk songs performed by local fishermen while grinding roots of a kind of tree that is called “teng” tree containing toxic substance for extraction. The liquid will be released into river or stream to kill fishes. By Minh Phong – Translated by Kim Khanh …

/ October 23, 2020

Minister of Planning and Investment offers support to people in central region

The Minister of Planning and Investment visited to support the people of Central Vietnam On October 22, Minister Dung arrivied to Le Thuy district of Quang Binh province to check the damage wrought by the storm and the local authorities’ answer. On the same day, he and the delegation of the Ministry of Planning and Investment visited households and gave gifts worth VND300 million ($13,040) for the people in Cam Hung and Cam Thanh cummunes of Ha Tinh province. Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and Minister Dung visited Quang Tri Determined to “Leave no one behind”, the minister also joined the work delegation of the Politburo lead by Permanent Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Government's PAR Steering Committee to visit and encouraged people in a number of communes in Quang Tri province as well as work with leaders of Quang Tri People Committee to discuss emergency measures. Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh presented 15 gifts for households and gave VND100 million ($4,350) to the Study Encouragement Fund of Tay Giang district. In addition, Minister Dung gave VND200 million ($8,700) to support Tay Giang district of Quang Tri to deal with the aftermath of natural disasters. On this occasion, Minister Dung and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development presented VND1 billion ($43,480) and essential goods for people impacted by the floods and storms. By Kim Oanh …

/ November 6, 2020

Resilient homes on flood plains giving hope to at-risk families

The central region’s woes with natural calamities have badly affected locals’ way of life Just a few hours prior to the October 28 arrival of the strongest storm seen in Vietnam in the last 20 years, Bui Thi Chin’s family in Binh Son district of the central province of Quang Ngai was completing the final stages of preparation for the incoming threat. For the families of millions of people in other central coastal provinces, storms and floods have become a familiar part of their lives for many years. However, 2020 has brought disaster over disaster for the central region with some of the strongest storms ever experienced in recent weeks, on top of the difficulties that the global health crisis has brought in recent months. Chin said that when she learned of storm Molave’s approach to the mainland, she was so worried and could not sleep for several nights. It was projected that the eye of the storm would most likely be located over Quang Ngai. “The wind began to blow so fiercely from the afternoon. However, my family had promptly reinforced my home’s resistance and moved our belongings to the attic, so I feel safer. My husband and I will also be in the attic for the next few days because heavy rains can lead to flooding,” said Chin. The house of Chin’s family is one of more than 3,200 storm- and flood-resilient houses constructed in the central coastal provinces of Thanh Hoa, Quang Binh, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, and Quang Ngai jointly funded by the Green Climate Fund, the Vietnamese government, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The partnership aims to improve the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change-related impacts in the central Vietnam. Along with Quang Ngai, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien-Hue have also been battered by persistent torrential rains, causing widespread flooding and landslides. Since October 5, prior to Molave’s arrival, nearly 150 people have been killed or gone missing, more than …