Minister-Chairman of the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Hau A Lenh on January 14 led a delegation to pay a visit to ethnic minority groups in Than Uyen district of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
A ceremony was held in Muong Te district, the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau, on December 31 to wrap up the sixth Vietnam-Laos-China ‘con’ festival, themed “Colour of friendship”.
Shan Tuyet tea is a famous specialty of Phong Tho district, Lai Chau province. Dao ethnic people in Mo Si San commune are now learning how to take care of the ancient tea trees.
The Sun Gate Group on November 16 inaugurated the first stage of Rong May Glass Bridge ecological tourism site, as part of Thac Trang (White Falls) tourism project, in Son Binh commune, Tam Duong district, the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau.
Downpour and floods since June 23 left one person dead and three others missing in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau as of 6am of June 25, said the Office of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Four people have gone missing after being swept away by flash floods in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on early June 24, according to the provincial Steering Committee for Disaster Response, Search and Rescue.
National Assembly deputies and members of the People’s Council of Lai Chau province held a dialogue on June 21 with representatives of children in the northern mountainous province.
Authorities of the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau received Ambassador of Austria to Vietnam Thomas Schuller Gotzburg on May 7, on his working tour of the province to discuss cooperation in tourism, vocational training and agriculture between the province and Austrian localities in the coming time.
The northern mountainous province of Lai Chau announced its first African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on March 19, raising the total number of disease-hit localities nationwide to 20.
The Ministry of Finance and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on March 5 signed a loan worth over 188 million USD for a transport connectivity project in northern mountainous provinces.
The Border Guard of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau has presented 166 scholarships worth a total of 500 million VND (21,500 USD) to poor students in the province’s border localities.
