Ha Nhi rainy season festival a tribute to ancestors

Built in 2005, a Catholic church in Pleiku resembles an ethnic minority communal house on stilts.

From paying for house construction to everyday needs the Xe Dang people in south-central Vietnam use this medicinal root as cash.

The Grand Prize at the Hamdan International Photography Award in Dubai this year has been won by a photo taken in Vietnam.

H’Hen Nie, a top 5 Miss Universe contestant, is working to preserve ethnic minority traditions and improve living standards.

H'Mong people have been asked not to celebrate their New Year festival, but the decision's rationale has been questioned.

In Vietnam, extreme poverty dropped to 2 percent in 2016 but poverty remains widespread among ethnic minorities, a new report shows.

During the Fire Festival in northern Vietnam, men of the Pa Then ethnic group rush bare feet into burning embers.

Around 3,400 runners from over 50 countries and territories were treated to breathtaking vistas in Sa Pa last weekend.

A Vietnamese oil painting, Pink Lips, is brilliantly re-rendered by a street artist in California, redoubling its charm.

Ha Giang has decided to take back a Hmong palace from a culture department and could return it to an erstwhile royal family.

The poor faces a widening gap in terms of access to upper secondary education and improved water and sanitation.

The government tried to ban the practice and turn it into a political tool, but as one artist said: 'You can't suppress folk culture.'

A group of Thai ethnic minority women run a small bank that fills a huge credit gap.