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Mountainous Ha Giang moves to address flash flood consequences

The northernmost province of Ha Giang is summoning efforts to deal with the heavy consequences of a flash flood that has killed at least one person and devastated vast areas of property in Quang Binh district on October 22.

07:12 | 24/10/2018

3,400 runners to compete in sixth Vietnam Mountain Marathon

Some 3,400 runners from around the world will compete in the Vietnam Mountain Marathon which is about to return to Sa Pa, Lao Cai this September.

08:58 | 19/09/2018

Mangkhut’s remnant to bring heavy rains to northern mountainous region

Despite making landfall in China, Typhoon Mangkhut’s swells could bring torrential rains to the midland and mountainous area of Vietnam’s northern region from the night of September 17.

12:30 | 17/09/2018

Floods, landslides kill six in northern mountainous region

Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the past days had left six dead, five missing and two injured in the northern mountainous region by 17:00 on August 5.

10:32 | 06/08/2018

Mountainous pupils learn about border

“Do you know what this is?” a teacher asked. “It is a landmark,” answered the pupils. “What do you think the border guards are doing?” the teacher asked. “They are going on a patrol,” the pupils said.

15:00 | 04/06/2018

Japan to help six northern mountainous provinces build resilience to natural disasters

The project "Disaster resilient rural development

22:07 | 18/05/2018

Ba Na Mountain hosts beer festival

The Sun World Ba Na Hills Mountain resort, 1,500m above sea level, has launched a beer festival, the B’estival 2018 to celebrate summer holidays, offering 1 million litres of German beer for tourists between May and September.

15:08 | 04/05/2018

Dong Van plateau: Beyond rocky mountains

Visiting Dong Van Ancient Quarter on the days of market sessions on weekends, visitors will have interesting experiences. Apart from trading goods, highland people in colorful brocade costume go to the markets also to socialize. The oldest house here has a large terrace with two stone pillars decorated with red lanterns, built by the Luong family in 1810-1820. Currently, their descendants still live in this house. This is one of the 40 heritage buildings that have survived in the fires that devastated Dong Van in 1923 before the French re-built the town./.

15:42 | 02/05/2018

Vietnamese teachers travel in mountains to bring students back to school

They seek to extricate ethnic-minority school-age children from the yoke of child marriage and labor

15:56 | 26/04/2018

Vietnamese Association of Voluntary Doctors cares for needy mountainous people

The Association of Voluntary Doctors (AVD) and the provincial Youth Union Committee of Dien Bien provided free health checkups, medicines and gifts worth VND 208 million (USD 9,110) for people in the mountainous commune of Pa Thom, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province from April 21-22.

22:11 | 25/04/2018

Teachers at remote mountainous school find love

With the desire to help minority children gain a brighter future, teachers have volunteered to leave their families for the remote Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Province of Kon Tum to work at the Măng Ri Boarding School, reported the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper.

11:32 | 20/03/2018