Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Voice of Vietnam launches H'Mong language service

The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) yesterday launchef a radio broadcast in the H’Mong ethnic minority language, Vietnam News Agency reported. The radio broadcast is being carried out by the Northern West correspondent centre of VOV, which also celebrated its 10th founding anniversary yesterday.
The H’Mong language broadcast is to provide folk music and news to more than 800,000 H’Mong ethnic people mostly living in mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, said Vu Van Hien, General Director of Voice of Vietnam. The Northern West correspondent centre of VOV now broadcasts in the three ethnic minority languages of Thai, Dao and H’Mong every day, thus providing news and music for most minority people living in the north-west of the country.
(Source: Vietnam News Agency/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)