(VOVWORLD) - The One Commune, One Product program (OCOP) is being implemented nationwide, and many agricultural products have been certified as 3- to 5-star OCOP items, encouraging farmers to invest more in production while meeting the domestic market and export requirements. The key now is to develop brands for OCOP products and expand consumer markets. In this week’s Q&A, we’ll bring you excerpts of a talk about the topic with Dr. Nguyen Thi Yen, Director of the Center for Rural Development SMART of the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry.

(VOVWORLD) - An additional 10 million people will benefit from the Government’s social protection and poverty reduction policies and programs between 2021 and 2025, according to the Multi-Dimensional Poverty Report 2021. Since 2020, Vietnam has been carrying out a program of socio-economic development for ethnic minority areas. After 2 years of implementation, the program has realized its slogan “No one is left behind”.

(VOVWORLD) - Since its establishment 5 years ago, the self-governing Vang clan in Ta Tong commune, Lai Chau province, has led in mutual support to develop the economy, eliminate hunger, and reduce poverty on top of maintaining security and order in the locality.

(VOVWORLD) - The final round of the Berlin International Guitar Competition and Festival will take place this Saturday. First held in 2006, the biennial event has attracted many talented guitarists from Vietnam and around the world.

(VOVWORLD) - In recent years, ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have invested a lot in high-tech to produce more profitable vegetables and flowers. Farmers in Phi To commune, Lam Ha district used to make money by growing coffee, but now they earn all year round after adopting the lagim model - growing vegetables, tubers, and fruits in a greenhouse.

(VOVWORLD) - Despite hardships, many women in poor hamlets in the central province of Quang Ngai have helped orphans overcome difficulties and continue their dreams of going to school. VOV’s Vinh Thong will tell you about these godmothers.

(VOVWORLD) - With serving people and businesses as the goal, Hanoi has simplified, replaced, or eliminated hundreds of administrative procedures, saving time and money and giving civil servants a greater sense of responsibility and professional ethics.

(VOVWORLD) - Being good at mass mobilization, conversion, and reconciliation, and reducing thefts, gambling, and drug crimes are the criteria of a club called "Three goods, three downs" in An Quang Huu commune in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh. In the year since it was established, the club has contributed to security and public order and made the commune a role model in the “All people protect national security” movement.

(VOVWORLD) - There is a forest in Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province, called the Nam Cong Forest, which was the base of the Inter-region Party Committee V. Under the leadership of Secretary Vo Chi Cong, the Inter-region Party Committee V completed an historic mission during the American war from 1959 to 1964, making the initial success of the strategy of the Southern Revolution in the 1960s. To remember the merits of Mr. Vo Chi Cong, who was then the Chairman of the State Council, ethnic minorities in Nam Tra My district have collaborated to preserve the forest as an historical vestige of the war.

(VOVWORLD) - As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic was under control, tourism in the northern mountainous province of Son La recovered and has gradually resumed its growth. Tourist destinations there have seen a significant increase in the number of visitors.