News and press coverage

Published reporting on the association, on the Binh Duong ceramics villages, and on the trade as a whole. Each entry links straight to the original article on the publisher's own site.

17 August 2026Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Vietnam OCOP Festival 2026 to be held in Ho Chi Minh City The festival runs from 3 to 6 December 2026 on the Nguyễn Huệ pedestrian street under the theme “Creating from tradition — breaking through to the future”, gathering OCOP products from 34 provinces and cities. Under the plan of 5 August 2026, the opening ceremony is also when the Binh Duong ceramics village bid is to be announced. Read the original at Sài Gòn Giải Phóng →
Photograph: Sài Gòn Giải Phóng
12 August 2026Đại biểu Nhân dân Ho Chi Minh City to bring the Binh Duong ceramics villages into the world creative craft cities network The article gives the document number: Plan 424/KH-UBND assigning the work of building the dossier, across eight task groups — from surveying the villages, museum space and creative design through to trade promotion, labour policy and the roads into the villages. Read the original at Đại biểu Nhân dân →
Photograph: Đại biểu Nhân dân
7 August 2026Báo Pháp luật Binh Duong ceramics villages to join the World Creative Craft Cities network Ho Chi Minh City prepares the dossier for the Binh Duong ceramics villages, aiming for announcement at the Vietnam OCOP Festival 2026. Read the original at Báo Pháp luật →
Photograph: Báo Pháp luật
5 August 2026VietnamPlus Binh Duong ceramics enter the world creative crafts network The plan, issued on 5 August 2026, spans six wards: Lái Thiêu, Thuận An, Chánh Hiệp, Tân Khánh, Thủ Dầu Một and Thuận Giao. Read the original at VietnamPlus →
Photograph: Hương Giang/TTXVN
11 December 2025VOV Ceramics firms fear losing skilled workers to foreign rivals Returning US orders drew Chinese manufacturers to open local factories and bid up wages for skilled labour. One firm needed 200 workers and had hired only 60 since August 2025. Read the original at VOV →
Photograph: VOV
2 December 2025VTC News Lái Thiêu, where the heritage is held in the hands of its craftspeople A report from the kilns still firing at Lái Thiêu: the craft is carried by the older generation of potters, while workshops move to electric kilns and open their doors to visitors. Read the original at VTC News →
Photograph: VTC News
29 November 2025Tuổi Trẻ Young visitors take to ceramic decorating at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum A free ceramic-decorating session on the morning of 29 November at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum put young people in direct contact with the Lái Thiêu ceramic heritage. Read the original at Tuổi Trẻ →
Photograph: Tuổi Trẻ
20 November 2025Sài Gòn Giải Phóng “Southern ceramics through the ages”: the mark of one region The Binh Duong Museum and the Lái Thiêu Old Ceramics and Planters Club opened a thematic display on the morning of 20 November; the club donated 18 pieces of Lái Thiêu ware to the museum. Read the original at Sài Gòn Giải Phóng →
Photograph: Sài Gòn Giải Phóng
27 August 2025Tuổi Trẻ Cây Mai ceramics of Saigon on show in Cần Thơ Old southern ceramics — altar ware, altar figures and architectural decoration — were displayed at the Cần Thơ Museum until 1 December 2025. Read the original at Tuổi Trẻ →
Photograph: Tuổi Trẻ
24 November 2021VOV Binh Duong announces national treasures and national intangible cultural heritage The Binh Duong pottery craft was entered on the national list of intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on 23 November 2021. Read the original at VOV →
Photograph: VOV
20 April 2019Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Ceramics go abroad Industry background: Binh Duong ceramics reach more than fifty countries, but the number of production facilities has fallen to roughly a tenth of its level forty years earlier. Read the original at Sài Gòn Giải Phóng →
Photograph: Sài Gòn Giải Phóng
17 September 2018Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Will there still be a Lái Thiêu pottery village? Urbanisation pressing on the craft village: kilns pushed out to the edges, and young people no longer drawn to the work. Kept here as a benchmark to measure against. Read the original at Sài Gòn Giải Phóng →
Photograph: Sài Gòn Giải Phóng

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