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The Canadian International School – Lao Cai, the first phase, was inaugurated in Lao Cai city of the northwestern province of the same name on January 8.

The Canadian International School – Lao Cai (CIS – Lao Cai), the first phase, was inaugurated in Lao Cai city of the northwestern province of the same name on January 8.

Visitors to the northwest region of Vietnam can explore a range of different cultures and cuisines. One special food in the region is “cơm lam”, or rice in a bamboo tube.

Those who have a chance to taste the five-coloured sticky rice will come to appreciate the special fragrance of the leaves that give the dish its colour, and the grains that give it its unique flavour. The dish is found only in the Northwest region of Vietnam, intertwined with family generations in the region.

Terraced fields in each locality have their own beauty. In particular, Mu Cang Chai and Yen Bai terraced fields were respectively in the Top 20 most colorful destinations in the world and Top 50 most beautiful destinations in the world in 2020.

A space showcasing the distinctive cultural traits of ethnic minority groups in the northern mountainous province of Son La opened in downtown Hanoi recently, in an attempt to attract visitors to the northwest region in general and Son La in particular.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 29 assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to build a development strategy for the macadamia sector, with planning, varieties, markets, and investment capital to all be taken into account.

For the first time, three hundreds of ban (orchid) flower trees from the northwest mountainous region are on display at Hanoi Museum.

More than 100 organisations and businesses of Vietnam, China, Laos and Thailand have joined the International Trade Fair of the Northwest Region 2019 that was opened in Dien Bien Phu city in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 30.

Every year when spring is about to end and summer is waiting to come, Gao or red silk cotton flowers are in full bloom, brightening up the northern region of Vietnam.

The International Trade Fair of the Northwest Region is scheduled to begin on March 30 at the May 5 Square in Dien Bien Phu city, the northwestern province of Dien Bien.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan worth 188 million USD to improve and upgrade 198 km of roads in Vietnam’s mountainous northwest region.

A festival gathering 14 typical community-based tourism villages across the northwest region will take place in Hoa Binh province from October 6 to 8.

Ban flower is the symbol of the northwest of Vietnam. The flower represents pure love and gentle Thai ethnic minority girls in the region. Join our reporter to discover the beauty of the flower.

The northwest region of Vietnam recorded stable socio-economic development in 2016 with the household poverty rate dropping by 3.4 percent from the previous year.

Plum flowers are blossoming all across the mountains and forests in the northwestern province of Son La, drawing numerous tourists.

Mong ethnic people’s traditional new year falls in the twelfth month of the year, normally one month earlier than Lunar New Year.

A new general hospital with 500 beds was inaugurated in hamlet 1, Phuc Loc commune, the north-west province of Yen Bai on October 27.

Soft loans provided in the northwestern region helped lift more than 318,000 families out of poverty between 2011 and 2015.

Dual cultural festivals will land the northwest region in September 2016, according to the provincial People’s Committee of Yen Bai at a meeting in the locality on August 11.