UNESCO help to preserve the Vietnamese Royal Music

UNESCO has, through the Japanese Trust Fund, launched its first project to preserve royal music or "nha nhac" in Vietnam.

"Nha nhac" was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the world's 28 intangible oral heritages in early November, 2003.

The project, to be carried out from now until 2007, will focus on personnel training, systematically listing "nha nhac" performers and researchers and providing them with preferential allowances, in order to ensure the preservation of "nha nhac" and personnel for the art in the future. UNESCO contributed nearly US $162,500 to the US $352,000 project, which aims to help preserve and widely introduce "nha nhac".