An opening ceremony of the Bac Ha Plateau Festival was held in Bac Ha town, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, on June 1.

The Bac Ha White Plateau Festival will take place from May 31 to June 9 in Bac Ha town, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

International delegates to the just-concluded 16th United Nations (UN) Day of Vesak in Vietnam on May 15 attended a Buddhist ritual praying for peace, security, and prosperity held at Mount Fansipan in Sa Pa district, the northern province of Lao Cai.

Sa Pa district in the mountainous province of Lao Cai welcomed a record of close to 81,000 visitors during the five-day national holiday from April 27 to May 1, up 18 percent from the same period last year.

Lao Cai province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) organised a seminar in the northern mountainous locality on April 26, seeking measures to promote economic empowerment for rural women.

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai welcomed more than 1.4 million tourists in the first quarter of 2019, up 16.6 percent year-on-year, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

The import-export turnover through the Lao Cai International Border Gate on the Vietnam-China border hit 372.8 million USD in the first quarter of 2019, equivalent to 78.2 percent of the figure in the same period last year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 15 chaired a meeting on the plan to set up the district-level town of Sa Pa in the northwestern province of Lao Cai, highlighting the establishment’s necessity to local development.

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 People’s Committee of the northern border province of Lao Cai and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on March 1 signed a media cooperation agreement for the 2019-2020 period.

U.S-based National Geographic’s listing of best travel spots for 2019 includes Vietnam’s Hoang Lien Son mountain range.

Sa Pa town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai welcomed more than 77,000 visitors in the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday from February 2-10, up 17 percent over the same time in 2018, including 7,600 foreign tourists.

The Lao Cai international border gate in the northern mountainous province of the same name was busy with holiday makers on the first day of the Year of the Pig (February 5).

The summit of Mount Fansipan in Lao Cai province has welcomed snowflakes due to the recent cold spell.