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A press centre was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on March 11 to serve domestic and foreign reporters who cover the 2016 Dien Bien Ban Flower Festival.

Hundreds of hectares of forests in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, which were blanketed under ice and snow in the strongest cold spell in years in late January, are now at high fire.

The 2016 Ban Flower Festival will be held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 13-15 with the engagement of neigbours from northern Laos and northeastern Thailand.

The Ha Nhi people in northern mountainous Dien Bien province celebrate their traditional New Year festival (Tet) on the first dragon day in December, which fell on December 11, 2015.

Twenty-three relic sites have been added to the Dien Bien Phu Battlefield Relics Complex in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

A farmer in the northwestern province of Dien Bien accidentally unearthed an age-old bronze drum while ploughing his fields.

A ceremony was held in Muong Lay township, the northwestern province of Dien Bien on December 31 to publicise the recognition of the Xoe dance and Kin pang Then ritual as national intangible cultural

A 3.6-magnitude earthquake hit Tuan Giao district in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien in the night of September 21.

A conference was held in Dien Bien province on September 22 to review the implementation of the Prime Minister’s instruction No 01/2005 regarding Protestantism over the past 10 years.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the Ministry of Transport to redesign Dien Bien Phu Airport by 2020-2030.

Coordination in combating drug smuggling between the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien and northern Lao provinces has proved effective.

More than 100,000 residents displaced by the Son La hydroelectric power plant have improved livelihoods at their new settlements.

The Prime Minister has approved a master plan for the development of the Dien Bien Phu – Pa Khoang national tourism area in northern Dien Bien province by 2020.

Authorities of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien and Laos’ Phongsaly province met on August 18 to discuss the opening of the Na Bung – Lao Phu Chai auxiliary border gate.