(VOVWORLD) - Ha Giang has 370 cooperatives with more than 8,900 members and 41 traditional craft villages involving 3,000 households, with each worker earning about 170 USD a month. The model of cooperatives and craft villages is helping locals reduce poverty.

(VOVWORLD) - Nghi Xuan district in Ha Tinh province plans to build new-style rural areas based on combining traditional culture and tourism development. Under the plan, the great Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du’s “The Tale of Kieu,” a masterpiece of Vietnamese classical epic poetry, will serve as a model for instilling beautiful values in new-style rural communities.

(VOVWORLD) - We visited Co Dua hamlet in Song Ma district, Son La province, on a sunny day in late April. Although it wasn’t too hard to get there, as it would have been on a rainy day, our minivan still skidded three times on the bumpy, rocky bends. Tong Van Viet, Secretary of Muong Sai commune’s Party Committee, said if the new road is completed next month, it will take much less time to drive the 10 kilometers to Co Dua hamlet.

(VOVWORLD) - Farmers in several Central Highlands provinces have replaced low-yield traditional industrial crops which have been seriously affected by climate change and unstable prices with lychee trees, which grow well in the impoverished soil of Ea Kar district, Dak Lak province, and other places.

(VOVWORLD) - Localities in Ha Tinh are disseminating information on citizens’ rights and duties to cast their ballots in the upcoming elections of deputies to the National Assembly and all-level People's Councils. Communications campaigns have helped Catholics in Ha Tinh understand the meaning of the election scheduled next Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Chieng Khuong is the first border commune in Song Ma district, Son La province, to become a new-style rural area and the first commune in the province to meet the upgraded criteria for new rural area. Since the program was launched here a decade ago, Chieng Khuong has changed visibly and locals’ living conditions have improved.

(VOVWORLD) - The remarkable growth of agricultural production in Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province, in recent years is a result of local authorities identifying the best-adapted plants and animals. Tran Yen has shifted production, increased local income, and become the first new-style rural district in the region.

(VOVWORLD) - Ly Son island district in Quang Ngai province is famous for its onion, garlic, and fresh seafood. Ly Son fried fish balls are particular favorites nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - The Mekong Delta has harvested the winter-spring rice crop as farmers have overcome the impacts of saltwater intrusion and are exporting rice at a good price.

(VOVWORLD) - In the past few years, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) program has turned many local products from Mekong Delta provinces into products that are well known and respected in other markets. The region’s OCOP products have raised the living standard of local farmers and boosted the local economy.