The working session between the Politburo and the Standing Board of the Party Committee of Dien Bien province on August 25, 2025. (Photo: VNA)

Politburo guides preparations for Dien Bien and Gia Lai Party Congresses

State President Luong Cuong highlighted the need to build a strong political system at all levels, ensure firm national defence, maintain political stability and social order and safety, enhance effectiveness of foreign affairs, and improve living standards, especially for ethnic minorities and residents in remote or disadvantaged areas.

Participants at the meeting (Photo: VNA)

Dien Bien shares administrative management experience with Lao locality

Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of Luang Prabang province of Laos Soukhan Boungyong shared brief information on his current organisational structure and staffing, and showed the delegation’s interest in learning from Dien Bien’s experience in operating the two-tier local government model and its preparations for the upcoming provincial Party Congress.

Party General Secretary To Lam (five from left) and other delegates at the ground-breaking ceremony (Photo: VNA)

Party leader attends ground-breaking of school in Dien Bien border commune

Building schools is not only to create better learning conditions for students, but also to pursue a long-term goal of improving the quality of life for people living along the border, thereby contributing to safeguarding national territorial sovereignty at its roots - through the people and the communities that are closely tied to the land, the forests, and the border lines and markers.

Dien Bien provincial Department of Public Security and Public Security Bureau of Pu’er city sign Memorandum of Understanding outlining bilateral cooperation on ensuring security and order in the border areas (Photo: VNA)

Dien Bien, China’s Yunnan strengthen coordination in mantaining border security

The Department of Public Security of Dien Bien province and the Public Security Bureau of Pu’er city in China’s Yunnan province held their 13th annual talks in Dien Bien Phu city on November 25 to discuss cooperation in ensuring national security, combating crimes, and maintaining order and security between the two localities.

Secretary of the Dien Bien provincial Party Committee Tran Quoc Cuong receives a delegation of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association on July 18. (Photo: VNA)

Dien Bien wants to expand cultural, people-to-people exchanges with Japan: official

The northern province of Dien Bien wants to expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges with Japan in the coming time, thus contributing to the close friendship between Vietnam and Japan, said Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Tran Quoc Cuong while receiving a delegation of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association on July 18.

PM Pham Minh Chinh delivers a speech at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory in Dien Bien province on May 7. (Photo: VNA)

Grand ceremony, parade mark 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory

The Party Central Committee, the National Assembly (NA), the State President, the Government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, and the northwestern province of Dien Bien held a grand ceremony on May 7 in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 - 2024).

At the reception (Photo: VNA)

Defence Minister hosts Lao Deputy PM in Dien Bien

Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang hosted a reception in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien on May 6 for Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Chansamone Chanyalath, who is here to attend the upcoming 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7).

PM expresses gratitude to contributors to Dien Bien Phu Victory

PM expresses gratitude to contributors to Dien Bien Phu Victory

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid homage to General Vo Nguyen Giap and met with families of soldiers fighting in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and policy beneficiaries in Muong Phang commune of Dien Bien Phu city, the northwestern province of Dien Bien, on April 16.
Border guards of Vietnam, China hold joint patrol

Border guards of Vietnam, China hold joint patrol

The border guards stationed in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien and their counterparts in Mengzhi region, China’s Yunnan province, conducted a joint patrol along the section from Marker No 1 to Marker No. 3 along the shared border line on March 30.
Dien Bien Phu Campaign - globe-shaking victory

Dien Bien Phu Campaign - globe-shaking victory

Exactly 70 years ago, on March 13, 1954, the Vietnamese revolutionary army launched the first attack against the French colonialists’ heavily fortified base of Dien Bien Phu, starting a 56-day historic campaign whose victory directly led to the signing of the Geneva Accords on ending the war and restoring peace in Indochina.