(HBO) – Bui Hoang Bao Khanh, a third grader of Le Van Tam Primary School in Hoa Binh city, always dreams of introducing the culture of her Muong ethnic minority group to friends worldwide.
Bui Hoang Bao Khanh and other contestants at the Asia-Pacific Arts Festival 2023 in Bangkok.
Bui Hoang Bao Khanh shows off her Muong traditional dress at Vietnam International Junior Fashion Week 2023.
The second child of her family, Khanh is studious, taking an active part in various competitions. Over the past two school years, she made outstanding academic performance. Thanks to the support of other family members, Khanh also won prizes in many painting and singing contests, and was honoured as an outstanding ethnic minority student in Hoa Binh city this year.
Notably, the girl brought home a gold medal in piano solo at the Asia-Pacific Arts Festival (APAF) in Bangkok last June. The festival aimed to promote harmony, peace and friendship through understanding about culture, language, tradition and custom.
After returning home, she continued to join the Vietnam International Junior Fashion Week 2023 in Hanoi, where she showed off designs reflecting the unique culture of Hoa Binh province.
Khanh said she wants to introduce the Muong culture as well as cultural values of her homeland to both domestic and foreign friends.
With an allocation of 44 billion VND (1.72 million USD) under the national target programme on socio-economic development in the ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas for the 2021-2025 period, Hoa Binh city has invested in the target areas, creating many changes in the living conditions of local ethnic minority communities.
The social security system at all levels in Hoa Binh province has been making concerted efforts to ensure benefits of citizens and workers when they participate in social insurance and health insurance.
With the motto "for the interests of the union members and employees”, in 2024, Tan Lac District’sLabor Federation has implemented many activities towards the grassroots. They have been paying attention and protecting the legitimate and the legal rights of the union members, employees, the civil servants, and laborers, which has been contributing to motivating and encouraging the spirit of the union members and the laborers to enthusiastically compete in labor production, actively contributing to the development of the agencies, units and enterprises.
On December 23, the Department of Education and Training held a meeting to encourage the selected team participating in the national high school excellent student competition for the school year of 2024-2025. There was the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
