From April 14–16, 2025, the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay festival of the Southern Khmer people takes place with many distinctive traditional activities, all in hopes of a new year filled with luck and prosperity.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on April 12 extended greetings and presented gifts to 50 Khmer ethnic households, including policy beneficiary families and those living in poverty, in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on the occasion of the 2025 Chol Chnam Thmay festival.
A delegation of the Development Department under the Cambodian Defence Ministry led by its director Lieutenant General Ouk Hoeunpisey on January 17 paid a pre-Tet (Lunar New Year) visit to the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long.
Sene Dolta, a traditional festival of the Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong Delta, honors filial piety and pays tribute to ancestors who contributed to the nation’s building and defense. In Soc Trang province, over 400,000 Khmer residents are celebrating this year’s festival, which runs from October 1 to 3.
Khmer people in the southern province of Soc Trang have grieved for the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong who always paid much attention to ethnic minority groups in general and Khmer people in particular.
A series of Cambodian media agencies have recently run articles emphasising Vietnam’s conservation efforts targeting the languages and scripts of ethnic minority groups, especially Khmer people in the Mekong Delta.
Cambodian newspapers have run articles highlighting positive changes in the lives of Khmer ethnic minority people in Vietnam’s southern region, attributing such progress to the country’s dedicated ethnic programmes and initiatives.
Minister - Chairman of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Hau A Lenh attended a get-together to celebrate the Chol Chnam Thmay festival of Khmer people held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 10.
Minister - Chairman of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Hau A Lenh attended a get-together to celebrate the Chol Chnam Thmay festival of Khmer people in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on April 9.
The material and spiritual lives of the Khmer people has been significantly improved in recent years thanks to many timely policies and solutions aimed at eradicating poverty and enhancing livelihoods in the southwestern region.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter of congratulations to Khmer people, monks and nuns on the occasion of their traditional New Year festival Chol Chnam Thmay 2024.
The Pha Bau Festival, also known as the Dua Tpeng Festival, was held on March 17 in Binh Phuoc province’s Loc Ninh district, attracting large numbers of people from various communes in Loc Ninh and neighbouring areas.
Located along National Highway No 1, about 10km from Soc Trang city in Soc Trang province, Chen Kieu (also known as Sro Loun Pagoda or Sa Lon Pagoda) in Dai Tam commune, My Xuyen district, stands out as a prominent Khmer pagoda in the Hau River region. What sets it apart is its distinctive decorative technique, using porcelain bowls and plates affixed to walls.
Vietnam refutes groundless and untruthful information about the situation of the Khmer people in the country, spokeswoman of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang has said.
Rasmei Kampuchea, a newspaper with the largest readership in Cambodia, ran an article on June 2 highlighting Vietnam’s investment priority policy for ethnic groups in the country in general and the Mekong Delta in particular, including the Khmer ethnic people.
Leaders of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on April 11 visited and offered greetings to Buddhist dignitaries, monks and followers at Thom Mit and Prolai Meas pagodas in Tinh Bien township, ahead of Khmer ethnic minority people’s traditional New Year festival Chol Chnam Thmay.
Officials of the southern Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu held a gathering on April 10 with representatives of Khmer people in the province to offer greetings on the occasion of Chol Chnam Thmay, one of the most important traditional festivals of the Khmer ethnics.
The People’s Committee of the southern province of An Giang has approved a project on preserving and upholding cultural values of “Buong” leaf scriptures of the Khmer ethnic group by 2030.
Governor Oum Reatrey of the Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey has said Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long is an important partner of his province in a variety of important sectors.
