In the 2012-2015 period, the State will allocate free seeds and fertilizers to help poor households and ethnic minority households develop food production and thus solving food shortages.

Resolution No. 88/2019/QH14 of the National Assembly approving the Master Plan on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in 2021-2030 was approved in November.

Encouraging children to go to school in some of Vietnam’s mountainous areas is not easy by any stretch of the imagination.

Northern localities are forecast to suffer heavy rains beginning Monday night, with rainfall expected to reach 200mm within a 24-hour period in some provinces, according to the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 1,100 households in the northwestern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Son La and Lai Chau are in areas with a high risk of landslides, erosion and flash floods.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The escalating number of international tourists visiting Vietnam over recent years has motivated almost every ethnic group to set up their own homestay and this type of tourism is rapidly gaining in popularity.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh received a huge number of questions focused on improving the reputation of Viet Nam's tourism sector to keep pace with other countries in the region

Local people in Huong Hoa district of Quang Tri province now go to the forests everyday to pull up huyet dang (Sargento doxacuneata) plants for sale.