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Floods triggered by heavy rains on August 15 and 16 caused a nine-year-old girl to go missing and damaged roads and houses in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

Heavy rains in recent days have caused severe flooding in the northern mountainous provinces of Son La and Dien Bien.

More than 50 poor people in the northern province of Dien Bien’s border commune of Thanh Yen received free health check-ups, treatment and oriental medicine via a programme on July 30.

Lying in the north-eastern mountainous region, Dien Bien province boasts rich natural resources with more than 760,000 ha of forest, making up nearly 80 percent of the local total natural area of 956,290 hectares.

As many as 180 children with different deformities in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have been receiving free medical checks-up and surgeries under a charity programme from June 18-24.

As many as 8,000 opportunities are available for job seekers at the second job fair in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on May 23.

A solemn ceremony was held at Tong Khao Martyrs Cemetery in northern Dien Bien province on May 23 to rebury 30 sets of remains of voluntary Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives on battlefields in Laos.

Dien Bien province has commenced criminal proceedings against 15 cases of destroying 18.6 hectares of forest in Muong Nhe district, a hotspot of illegal deforestation and migration.

The second congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) chapter in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien took place in Dien Bien Phu city on March 19.

The third Buddhist festival in Ban Flower season kicked off in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 17, attracting many visitors.

The northwestern province of Dien Bien should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan told provincial officials on March 13.

The Ban Flower Festival 2017 began on March 12 at Square 7/5 in Dien Bien city, the northern province of Dien Bien.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan applauded efforts to fight drug crimes and promote people-to-people exchanges with Laos by border guards of the Tay Trang International Border Gate while visiting the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 12.

The third phase of a project on upgrading Vietnam’s capability to measure rain and detect storms and lightning has been launched at the Pha Din Radar Station in northern Dien Bien province, reported the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.