VOV.VN - The 2025 Ban Flower Festival, held in conjunction with the eighth Cultural, Sports, and Tourism Festival of Ethnic Groups, officially opened on March 14 in the northwestern province of Dien Bien, drawing thousands of locals and tourists.

VOV.VN - Every March Nam Cum village in Dien Bien province is adorned with Ban (Bauhinia variegata) flowers in full bloom, painting the area with delicate white and purple flowers.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien and three Northern Laos provinces - Phongsaly, Luang Prabang, and Udomxay - have recently signed an agreement, outlining future cooperation orientations for 2025-2027.

VOV.VN - Dien Bien, a province in north-west Vietnam, and Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg have signed an agreement on trade-economic, science-technology cooperation and socio-cultural exchanges between the two sides.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien recently hosted a meeting in Moscow with Russian veterans who had served in Vietnam, honouring their crucial role in the struggle for Vietnam’s independence and reunification, as part of his working trip to the country.

Seventy years have passed, yet the Dien Bien Phu Victory remains a momentous event not only for Vietnamese people but also for all those around the world who cherish freedom as it is an epic written by an indomitable nation in the process of defending the homeland, stated Algerian Minister of War Veterans and Rights Holders Laid Rebiga at a conference held in Algiers on November 4.

VOV.VN - A grand meeting was held in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on October 10 to mark the 70th anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day (October 10, 1954 – 2024).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 29 attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway project in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh.

The Lai Chau provincial Border Guard and the Honghe border management team under the Jin Shuihe border immigration checkpoint of China conducted a joint law enforcement patrol along their shared border on September 27.

Representatives from the Dien Bien provincial Party Committee's inspection commission held talks with a delegation representing the Party inspection - inspectorate commissions of the Lao northern provinces of Phongsaly, Udomxay and Luang Prabang in Dien Bien Phu city on September 18.