3,400 runners to compete in sixth Vietnam Mountain Marathon
Some 3,400 runners from around the world will compete in the Vietnam Mountain Marathon which is about to return to Sa Pa, Lao Cai this September.
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Some 3,400 runners from around the world will compete in the Vietnam Mountain Marathon which is about to return to Sa Pa, Lao Cai this September.
Sa Pa district in the northwestern province of Lao Cai welcomed 47,000 visitors from August 30 to September 2 during the National Day holiday, 15,000 more than the same period last year.
The 2018 Sa Pa Autumn Festival opened in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on September 1 with a wide range of activities.
Torrential rains in recent days have caused serious floods and landslides in several northwestern mountainous localities, causing heavy losses in both human life and properties.
The formation of a “harmonious friendship and twin relationship” between the Border Post of Lao Cai International Border Gate and its Chinese peers in September 25, 2013 marked a milestone in border guard diplomacy along the Vietnam-China shared border.
The Lao Cai People’s Committee and the Australian Embassy in Vietnam held a workshop in the northern mountainous province on August 21 to launch the Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) project.
The Bat Xat Fall Festival 2018 opened in Muong Hum commune, Bat Xat district of the northern mountainous of Lao Cai on August 19, offering visitors a series of ethnic tribal life experience and adventure activities.
The Red Cross Societies of Vietnam’s Lao Cai province and China’s Yunnan province signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in implementing friendship and humanitarian programmes, marking a new development step in the two sides’ relations.
The police in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai arrested three men for illegally transporting nearly 25kg of crystal meths, including 18,000 tablets of amphetamine.
A conference was organised in the northern border province of Lao Cai on July 13 to seek ways to promote the import-export of farm produce, fruits, and aquatic products between Lao Cai and China’s Yunnan province.
The People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has proposed the Ministry of Transport construct an airport in Sapa with total capital investment of nearly 5.8 trillion VND (252 million USD).
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Do Ba Ty on July 3 met voters in Duong Quy commune, Van Ban district, the northern province of Lao Cai, the hardest-hit locality in the recent floods.
The Standing Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) on June 25 sent sympathies to authorities and families affected by floods in the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Yen Bai and Lao Cai.
Border guards of the northern province of Lao Cai have arrested a suspect who was illegally transporting two bricks of heroin (nearly 0.7 kg) in Na Loc 4 village, Ban Lau commune, Muong Khuong district.
Police in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on June 16 arrested two men for illegally trafficking 23 bricks of heroin (about 8.5kg).
Earnings from agricultural product exports via Lao Cai International Border Gate in the northern province of Lao Cai since the beginning of 2018 exceeded 250 million USD, up 40 percent year on year.
The northern province of Lao Cai also has an amazing land called Bac Ha. With wonderful natural beauty and extraordinary culture and history, Bac Ha town is becoming an attractive tourist destination.
The Bac Ha tourism cultural week, themed “Colours of the White Highland”, began in Bac Ha district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, on June 2.
