The Fansipan cable car system carrying visitors to the highest mountain peak in Vietnam has proved to be a major contributor to the tourism industry in the resort town of Sa Pa over the past years.

Border trade infrastructure between Gia Lai province and Cambodia's localities sharing the same border line will be developed to promote goods trading and exchange activities under a programme to develop Vietnam's border trade infrastructure to 2025, with a vision to 2030.

Heavy downpours and floods claimed one life in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, announced the provincial steering board for disaster response and search and rescue on July 29.

The border guard force of the northern province of Lao Cai joined talks with the border control force of Honghe county in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan on July 22 to review their collaboration since 2019, and discuss measures to strengthen border control in the coming time.

Gathering at the weekend market is a custom that Ha Nhi ethnic minority people in Y Ty commune of Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, have upheld for generations. Most of the items on sale are handicrafts, vegetables, fruits, brocade, fabric, and poultry.

Without good conditions like their peers in lowland areas, children in the mountainous northwestern region still enjoy an unaffected and joyful life with home-made toys.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has added four more cultural practices of ethnic minority people in the northern province of Lao Cai to the national list of intangible cultural heritages.

More than 6,500 book titles were presented to poor children and libraries in remote and border areas in the northern province of Lao Cai on April 20.

A delegation of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee and the National Election Council (NEC) led by NA Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man on April 14 inspected preparations for the elections of deputies to the 15th legislature and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

The export and import of goods and services via the Lao Cai international border gate stood at nearly 950 million USD in the first quarter of this year, up 75 percent year-on-year.

A 42 billion VND (1.82 million USD) vegetable and fruit processing factory was put into operation in Vung Lai commune, Muong Khuong district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on April 7.

Apart from praying for a bumper crop and wealth, the forest worship ceremony of the Mong ethnic people in Si Ma Cai is also meant to cultivate a love for nature and the awareness of environmental protection in the community.

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has built a strategy to popularise the Sa Pa- Fansipan tourism trademark till 2025 with a vision to 2030.

More than 14,000 tonnes of dragon fruit were exported to China from February 10-17 (the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday) through border gates in the northern province of Lao Cai, according to the provincial Border Gate Customs Sub-Department.