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Mekong organic farming initiative receives US grant

It is one of 20 projects from around the world to receive this grant under the 2017YSEALI Seeds for Future programme. 

The network’s main activity, in all five lower Mekong countries, involves training children and youths in organic farming and sustainable agriculture. 

Y-Farm is developed by enthusiastic young people in the Mekong countries and managed by HCM City charity Warm Arm Association. 

It provides grants to young people for training in organic and sustainable farming.
VNA/VNP 

Ceremony held to receive UNESCO recognition of Dong Ho woodblock printings, name Yen Tu complex world heritage

Ceremony held to receive UNESCO recognition of Dong Ho woodblock printings, name Yen Tu complex world heritage

A grand ceremony was held March 27 evening in Bac Ninh province to receive UNESCO’s certificate inscribing the craft of making Dong Ho folk woodblock printings on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, and officially announce the Yen Tu–Vinh Nghiem–Con Son–Kiep Bac Complex of Monuments and Landscapes as a World Cultural Heritage site.

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