Jarai’s unique Po Thi funeral custom

Jarai’s unique Po Thi funeral custom

(VOVWORLD) - Po Thi, the Jarai custom of building a larger charnel house for a deceased person before seeing them off to the world of Gods, takes place between January and...
Wednesday April 17, 2019

Wednesday April 17, 2019

(VOVWORLD) - Happy Bengali New Year to our Bangladeshi listeners. The Bengali New Year – also known as Poila Baishakh – is the first day of the Bengali calendar and is celebrated on either...
Russia-NATO relations back to starting point

Russia-NATO relations back to starting point

(VOVWORLD) - Russia has decided to completely cease civilian and military cooperation with NATO, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksander Grushko announced on Monday. Russia made the decision 5 years after NATO...
Vietnam prioritizes E-government

Vietnam prioritizes E-government

(VOVWORLD) - Building an e-government is one of the top priorities of the Vietnamese government, said Minister, Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tien Dung at the Spring...
Xoan singing enlivens Hung Kings Festival 2019

Xoan singing enlivens Hung Kings Festival 2019

(VOVWORLD) - Xoan singing of Phu Tho province was recognized by UNESCO as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage in late 2017. Dating back to the Hung Kings dynasty thousands of years ago...
Co Lao ethnic group

Co Lao ethnic group

(VOVWORLD) - The Co Lao, one of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic minority groups, has about 3,000 people. The group settled in Vietnam about 200 years ago and now lives mainly...
Community joins hands to support autistic children

Community joins hands to support autistic children

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has about 200,000 people suffering from autism spectrum disorder and the number is rising, according to the Ministryof Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs. One of every 100 children...