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Tourism cooperation between Lao Cai and Honghe prefecture of China’s Yunnan province was discussed at a seminar held in the northern border province of Vietnam on June 21.

Fansipan Horse Race ‘Galloping Horses’ 2019 kicked off in Sun World Fansipan Legend Tourism Complex on June 21.

The first Fansipan horse racing kicked off in Sa Pa town of the northern province of Lao Cai on June 21, aiming to make the traditional sport activity in the north-western region a draw to visitors to the province.

Nearly 1,000 athletes will compete at the National Junior Taekwondo Championship-CJ 2019 in Lao Cai province.

Police of the northern province of Lao Cai have arrested three men who illegally transported 16 bricks of heroin in Muong Khuong district.

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.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung on March 27 stressed the need for effective management and exploitation of minerals for sustainably developing the economy while ensuring national defence and security and protecting the environment.

Four projects of students in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, which had won prizes in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair (ViSEF) in 2019, have been selected to join the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US in May this year.

Tourists to Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province should visit Hoang A Tuong mansion, which is isolated in the centre of the town. This used to be the most powerful house in the northwest region.

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.