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Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival slated for March

Hanoi, February 7 (VNA) – The sixth Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival and the Central Highlands gong culture festival will take place in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak from March 8-13.

The Steering Committee for the Central Highlands and Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee held a press conference in Hanoi on February 6 to introduce the events with the theme “Converging quintessence – Promoting identity – Linking to develop”.

Activities as part of the festivals include an elephant festival, a gong performance, traditional rituals of ethnic minority groups, and a wood statues carving contest.

Numerous trade and investment promotion activities will be held, including a workshop on developing the Vietnamese coffee sector amid climate change and international integration.

The Central Highlands includes Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong provinces.

With more than 200,000 hectares of coffee plants, Dak Lak is Vietnam’s coffee capital.
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Overseas Vietnamese encouraged to contribute to homelands development

Overseas Vietnamese encouraged to contribute to homeland's development

Dr Hung, from the Institute of Economics under the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the Union of Vietnamese Organisations in Russia, told the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) that the Party and State have consistently pursued policies to encourage and harness the significant potential of overseas Vietnamese through expanding consultation mechanisms, making socio-economic and cultural policies, and strengthening the great national unity bloc.

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