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The northern province of Bac Kan aims to develop Ba Be into a national tourist site and make tourism a key sector, thereby boosting the locality’s socio-economic development.

The Prime Minister has approved project proposals on poverty reduction in the northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Bac Kan.

A number of prehistoric artefacts have been discovered for the first time at two caves in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan.

An area covering three northern provinces has been designated for the conservation of cultural and historical values and revolutionary war-zone relics, as well as the development of agroforestry.

Local authorities of the northern mountainous provinces of Son La and Bac Kan were requested to focus on overcoming the consequences of typhoon Nida, which had a severe impact on northern localities.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has suggested the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan pay more heed to tourism development as the locality boasts substantial potential in this field.

Honda Vietnam will work with people in the northern province of Bac Kan to plant more than 80 hectares of forest this year, the fourth year in the HVN-sponsored forest-growing project in the province.

A sinkhole that is about 12 metres wide and 20 metres deep in Bang Lung town, Cho Don district of northern Bac Kan province, was filled in by late January 3.

At least six families in Bang Lung Town in northern Bac Kan province were evacuated on January 3 after a sink hole 12 metres long and 20 metres deep appeared near their house on January 2.

A total of 108 commune health centres in six poor districts in the northern provinces of Bac Kan and Cao Bang have received health care in the past six and a half years.

The Lawrence S.Ting Community Support Fund presented 140 wheelchairs worth 231 million VND (10,500 USD) to the Bac Kan Association for Support to the People with Disabilities and Orphans on October 21

A conference was held in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan on October 13 to announce the local specialty sticky rice brand, Khau Nua Lech Ngan Son.

The cultural identities of ethnic groups in the northeast region was highlighted during a festival that ended in Bac Kan province on September 12.

The northern province of Bac Kan wants to collaborate with localities in the north eastern region to develop tours connecting heritage sites, said a provincial official on September 11.