The northern province of Thai Nguyen is now home to 22,000 ha of tea plantations, with Tan Cuong tea accounting for around 30 percent. The province is now working hard to preserve and improve this kind of tea plant, which have been grown for 70 years, towards producing high quality tea leaves.

Thai Ambassador to Vietnam Tanee Sangrat led a delegation of the Thai embassy on a working trip to the northern province of Thai Nguyen on January 8 to enquire about cooperation opportunities between the two sides.

The northern province of Thai Nguyen is striving to attract at least 10 investment projects totaling around 300 million USD to its industrial zones in 2019, according to local authority.

The northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen has attracted 62 projects with total registered capital of about 113.5 trillion VND (4.8 billion USD) since it hosted the investment promotion conference last July.

Military Zone 1 armed forces need to constantly uphold the Party’s military-defence guidelines and policy, as well as their duties to defend the country in the new circumstances, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said.

Vulnerable and orphaned children in the northern province of Thai Nguyen will receive family care under the Care for Children project introduced in the locality on December 13 by the Department of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids,\ and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

A programme entitled “Border spring-Island Tet 2019” was held in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on December 10, drawing over 1,300 participants, including lecturers, students and young people.

The Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation has taken its Helmets for Kids programme to the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen, to make the road to school safer for local children.

With 131 operating foreign direct investment (FDI) projects valued at 7.29 billion USD, Thai Nguyen province has become one of the leading destinations for foreign investors in the northern mountainous region.

A ceremony was organised in Dai Tu district, the northern province of Thai Nguyen, on August 31 to receive the certificate recognizing Doi Giang area in Thang Loi village, Tien Hoi commune, the first venue to host a credential receipt ceremony of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945-1976), as a national relic site.

More than 400 Lao students have taken part in a homestay programme in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, found to be successful in helping to nurture the Vietnam-Laos friendship.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung on August 20 advised the northern province of Thai Nguyen to create a better environment in order to attract more investors, as well as pay more attention to regional connectivity to provide mutual support.

The forest protection department of the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang released two reticulated pythons back to nature at the Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve in Phung Hiep district on August 14.

A meeting in northern Thai Nguyen province on July 31 emphasised the need for livelihood solutions to sustainably reduce poverty in local ethnic minority groups.