Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province\n\nChèo is a very difficult genre to sing. In order to sing beautifully a Chèo tune, especially an ancient tune, such techiques as slurring, vibrato, tempo control are required.

Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province\n\nChèo is a very difficult genre to sing. In order to sing beautifully a Chèo tune, especially an ancient tune, such techiques as slurring, vibrato, tempo control are required.

Co-orgarnized by ICHCAP and Hue Monuments Conservation Centre (HMCC), this year’s Asia-Pacific ICH NGO Conference was held in Hue, Vietnam under the theme of ICH NGOs towards Sustainable Development of Communities.\n\n

In 2011 and 2012, field surveys were conducted to examine the intellectual property issues that could arise in the process of ICH information building and sharing. The survey was conducted in eleven countries—Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam. The purpose of the surveys was to highlight the IP-related problems that ICH-related organisations may encounter while conducting ICH information–related activities, such as identification, documentation, digitisation, etc., and promoting the groundwork for a guide to protect IP-related aspects of ICH in the process of information building and sharing.