Ambassador Osius Bikes Ha Giang Province (2017)
This is a published article on the website of the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Vietnam.
Ambassador Osius and a delegation from the U.S. Embassy visited Ha Giang province from March 1 – 4 to bicycle and explore the rich cultural, historical, and natural heritage sites...
The battle for Hmong heritage in Vietnam - AFP News Agency
Vuong Duy Bao surveys his ancestral palace, a vestige of Vietnam's marginalised Hmong ethnic minority that he says was taken from his family by local officials.
Built in 1903 by Bao's warlord grandfather with his opium fortune, the retired civil servant claims local authorities took possession of the property in the northern Ha Giang province from his family and are now refusing to return it. Read more...
Ha Giang has decided to take back a Hmong palace from a culture department and could return it to an erstwhile royal family.
“Tran Duc Quy, deputy head of the northern province’s People’s Committee, said Thursday that the handing over of the palace, putatively belonging to descendants of the last H’mong King Vuong Chi Sinh (or Vuong Chi Thanh, 1886-1962), to the Dong Van District's culture department in 2012 was illegal. Read more...“