After nine years, a policy designed to help Vietnam’s smallest ethnic groups stay in school is showing signs of strain as populations and socioeconomic conditions change.

Traditional skirts meet fierce football as ethnic minority women from across Vietnam compete in a colorful tournament celebrating sport, culture and community.

Development can improve lives, but it can also leave deep scars when communities lose their voice, identity and ties to family. International experience offers important lessons for Vietnam.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs is finalizing a plan to create jobs, develop services and build sustainable employment links in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for 2026-2035.

Ahead of Vu Lan, Minister Nguyen Dinh Khang met Buddhist leaders in Hanoi, praising the Sangha’s work and the festival’s deep connection to Vietnamese traditions of gratitude.

Officials have been told to resolve technical and data bottlenecks quickly as Vietnam works to integrate its ethnic affairs and religious databases with the National Data Center by Sept. 20.

After three decades of change, the Chut people of Rao Tre are looking beyond direct assistance toward skills, jobs and livelihoods that can deliver lasting self-reliance.

Three decades ago, many Chut people could not speak Vietnamese and schooling was rare. Today, their children attend university and young workers are building new livelihoods far from home.

A Taoist master raises his ritual staff and, one by one, breaks five miniature structures representing the five directions of hell - a centuries-old act of spiritual liberation preserved by Ho Chi Minh City’s Chinese community.

The Chut of Rao Tre have transformed their lives over three decades, but memories of forest births, infant deaths and marriage between relatives remain painfully vivid.

Growing up in a remote mountain village without electricity, NT One spent more than a decade pursuing one ambition: bringing Vietnamese Hmong music into the global contemporary music scene.

Border Guard soldiers once rode through forests to help young Chut people find partners. Today, a new generation is choosing love and marriage beyond Rao Tre on its own.

Vietnam has built hundreds of water supply systems in ethnic minority areas, yet clean water shortages remain one of the biggest obstacles to improving living conditions.

Once a survival food during the lean season, mountain yam is now generating new income for highland communities in northern Vietnam through value-added processing.

Today, in Vietnam, the country they now call their second homeland, people of Cambodian origin continue to cherish a deep sense of gratitude, responsibility and attachment to the land that sheltered and supported them through years of hardship.

In Vietnam's Central Highlands, an Ede village has preserved a natural spring for generations by protecting the sacred forest that feeds it.

Spotted deer farming is emerging as a new economic opportunity for ethnic minority households in central Vietnam, supported by local authorities and market partnerships.

Administrative boundaries may have changed after the reorganization of villages and hamlets, but the "village soul" of the Central Highlands has been preserved by the people through culture, memories, and community bonds.

About 100 Vietnamese-Cambodian couples live along Gia Lai province's border, where the Po Co River has helped bring together generations of young people from communities on both sides.

More than half a century after the war, San Diu ethnic veteran Do Van Thong in Quang Hanh Ward (Quang Ninh) has kept a military map as a treasure.