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Construction of a suspension bridge linking Van Chan and Mu Cang Chai districts of the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, one of the poorest areas nationwide, commenced on July 10.

Healthcare in remote areas is still experiencing fundamental problems, including lack of equipment and shortage of doctors and professional staff.

One thousand people in Mu Cang Chai district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai were provided with free check-ups and medicine at a community health festival held from November 30 to December 1.

Anybody who has ever visited the northern region during the harvest season cannot help but be astonished at the stunning beauty of terraced fields which undulate around the hillsides and mountainsides as well as streams and rivers, resembling giant yellow staircases allowing people to step from Earth to heaven. Report by Radio The Voice of Vietnam.

The magnificent terraced rice fields, also called ladders to the heaven, with ripening paddy grains of ethnic minority people in Yen Bai province’s Mu Cang Chai district or Ha Giang province’s Hoang Su Phi district have attracted a large number of tourists, tour operators said.

A four-day festival highlighting the terraced fields in Mu Cang Chai district wrapped up in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on September 29.

Yen Bai province in the north will organise a cultural and tourism event to promote its Mu Cang Chai terraced fields as a tourism destination.

Police in Thanh Uyen district, the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau, on August 8 arrested two youngsters trafficking seven kilograms of opium poppy sap.

The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai will hold a culture, sports and tourism week highlighting terraced fields in Mu Cang Chai district from September 26-29 to mark 55 years since President Ho Chi Minh visited the province.

The Hanoi chapter of the VFF Committee has provided a total of 8 billion VND in refief aid for the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh to overcome consequences of the recent flood.

At least 17 people were killed in a landslide on Sept. 7 while heading to a tin mine in La Pan Tan Commune, in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

In autumn, the fields of Mu Cang Chai turn varying shades of brilliant yellow and are filled with life as ethnic Mong farmers, wearing traditional attire, harvest the abundance of ripe rice and shoulder bags of the grain home over mountains and hills and across swinging suspension bridges.

Few of the nearly 250 students of La Pan Tan Secondary School in the remote Mu Cang Chai district in the northern province of Yen Bai knew anything about computers or even connecting to the internet until a computing class was recently held.

Landslides destroyed five houses and left seven people missing in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai's Mu Cang Chai district on August 22 afternoon.

A photo entitled Mua Thu Hoach (Harvest Season) by photographer Tran Viet Van won fourth prize at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, which was themed Four Seasons.