(VOVWORLD) - 20 years ago, Ha Bau commune in Gia Lai province, was a center of illegal religious propagation and people lived in poverty. That has changed now. The security and political situation has stabilized and religious activities now abide by the law. Ha Bau commune has been recognized as a new-style rural village.

(VOVWORLD) - The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is renowned for its immense lotus fields. In recent years, earnings from 20 lotus products have improved the lives of local people.

(VOVWORLD) - The three communes of Buon Triet, Dak Lieng, and Buon Tria in Lak district of Dak Lak province are located along the Krong Ana River. Their thousands of hectares of rice, have long made them the rice bowl of the Central Highlands. It’s harvest time and this year the local farmers are feeling good because they have a bumper crop and good prices.

(VOVWORLD) - Tan Cuong tea, a specialty and famous brand of Thai Nguyen province, has been popular for years. Beautiful hills and terrain sloping from high mountains to lower elevations also make the Tan Cuong tea growing area an eco-tourism destination that attracts large numbers of tourists.

(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.