VOV.VN - Marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day this year, local residents in northern Dien Bien province created a special space - the “National Flag Road”, formed by hundreds of red flags with golden stars planted along a path stretching through the Muong Thanh rice field.

The capital city of Hanoi has decided to allocate VND8 billion (over US$300,000) in relief to help the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien and Son La recover from flash floods and landslides.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 3 made a field trip to Na Son and Tia Dinh communes, and Hang Pu Xi village in Xa Dung commune of Dien Bien province to direct disaster recovery efforts in the wake of the recent flashfloods and landslides.

During his visit to Hang Pu Xi, a village hit hard by flash floods in Xa Dung commune in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien, on August 2, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha urged all forces, particularly local administrations and on-site forces, to treat the disaster response as a battle to protect residents at all costs.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defence on August 2 deployed a helicopter to deliver relief supplies to residents isolated by floods in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

VOV.VN - Heavy rain over the pát 12 hours has triggered devastating flash floods and landslides across several areas of northern Dien Bien province, leaving at least three people dead, two injured and eight missing, and dozens of villages cut off, according to initial reports from local authorities.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam on July 27 offered incense and flowers in remembrance of fallen heroes and martyrs at the Martyrs’ Memorial and the A1 National Martyrs' Cemetery, as part of his ongoing working trip to Dien Bien province.

VOV.VN - The Dien Bien Provincial Police, in close coordination with the Lao Police, have dismantled a transnational high-tech fraud ring operating in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (Bokeo province, Laos).

The Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien province on July 14 hosted a delegation from Saint Petersburg to discuss prospects for cooperation in education and preparations for sending a group of local students to a summer camp in the Russian city this August.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Dien Bien Provincial Police and Lao authorities have successfully dismantled several large cross-border drug trafficking networks, seizing nearly 2.5 tonnes of narcotics, 13 firearms, over 1,500 rounds of ammunition, and more than 10 tonnes of industrial explosives.