In May and June, when terraced fields in the northwest region of Vietnam enter pouring-water season, ethnic groups begin transplanting rice seedlings, the most important time period for the crop.

Cultural activities will be organised in the northern province of Lao Cai as part of the The Festival of the White Highlands Bac Ha between May 31 and June 9.

Visitors to Fansipan in the misty town of Sapa in the northern province of Lao Cai this season have a chance to witness a valley of stunning flowers.

Farmers in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have thrown away tonnes of pineapples since China halted purchases.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pho (noodle soup) might be Vietnam’s most famous dish, but there are plenty of siblings of the world-famous delicacy worth slurping down.

Then” is a ritual singing genre of the Tay ethnic people. Female and male Then singers perform Then in front of the altars at sacred places.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lao Cai’s People’s Committee has sent a proposal to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asking for an airport to be built to serve Sa Pa Town.

The General Department of Market Surveillance is examining the transportation of ore and minerals in border areas in the northern province of Lao Cai after the media reported ore was being smuggled

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern province’s authorities are urging local police to expedite their investigation into a waste pond failure incident a week ago at a fertiliser factory in the province.

A waste pond connected to a DAP fertiliser factory in the northern province was compromised late last week and over 45,000cu.m of mud and untreated chemical-filled wastewater spilled over into nearby neighbourhoods

The Lao Cai Department of Natural Resources and Environment has proposed the provincial People’s Committee fine three chemical enterprises for violating regulations on environmental protection.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam plans to build five new airports in the next 12 years.Currently, the country has 23 airports, comprising 13 domestic and 10 international. It aims to have 15 domestic and 13 international by 2030.

In May and June, when the first summer rain pour over mountains in the north of Vietnam, rain water is led to local terraced fields. Water overwhelms the field and softens the soil so that farmers can plant rice seedlings. 

Deep in the rural district of Xenh Mua Ca, home to the Mong ethnic people in Lao Cai Province, lives a kind-hearted old man who plays a melodious panpipe that bewitches fellow villagers and passersby.

VietNamNet Bridge - China buys 85 percent of Vietnam’s total mineral exports, but the price of exports to the market is 60 percent of the average export price.

Pa Ku San Mountain in Lao Cai Province has primitive forests covered in moss, forests full of maple trees and their colourful leaves, cliffs that startle with their steepness and, at times, all this is covered in a sea of mist.

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More than 40 households in Giang Tru hamlet of Nam Khanh commune in Bac Ha district still cannot use electricity from the national grid, though they live next to the 36 MW Nam Phang hydropower plant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Those who wish to experience a slow pace of life should head to Hoang Thu Pho Commune in Bac Ha District in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Authorities have confirmed emissions from Tu Dinh Joint Stock Company’s metallurgy plant are destroying around 200 hectares of pineapple and other crops in the northern Lao Cai Province’s Muong Khuong District.