(HBO) – Whenever possible, the two Lao women adopted by Luong Son Toan, a resident in Chieng Sai hamlet of Mai Chau township (Mai Chau district), amid numerous hardships in the past return to Mai Chau to visit their beloved Vietnamese family.
Lac hamlet in Chieng Chau communes (Mai Chau district)
witnesses touching stories about the Vietnam - Laos relations as it was where
some children from the other side of the border were brought up.
Borderless
ties
Poet Lo Cao Nhum, a resident in Lac hamlet of
Chieng Chau commune who witnessed this touching story, said in the years full of
difficulties and hardships, the family of Luong Son Toan in Chieng Sai hamlet
still adopted two orphaned girls of the Lao nationality and helped them go to
school. Living up to their adoptive parents’ expectations, the daughters passed
examinations to enroll in the Tay Bac (Northwest) College for Culture and Arts
and then became artists of the Lao army’s art troupe.
Nhum said they have returned to visit their
adoptive parents for many times.
Kha Van Nhut, Secretary of the Party Committee
of Na Phon commune, said in the 1960s, the Party Committee and People’s
Committee of Mai Chau district evacuated to Nhot hamlet, where local residents
welcomed and guaranteed absolute safety for a meeting between First Secretary
of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Le Duan and President of
Laos Souphanouvong. After that important event, Mai Chau people frequently held
the responsibility for protecting President Souphanouvong and many other senior
officials of Laos during their movement along the historic Road 15.
Further
strengthening friendship, solidarity
In the resistance war against French
colonialists, due to Mai Chau’s strategic location, people of all ethnic groups
here not only engaged in the fight and delivered support to Vietnamese soldiers
in the northwestern battlefield, but also enthusiastically assisted their
compatriots in Hoa Binh province and nationwide to perform the noble
international mission of helping the Lao revolution in the struggle against the
common enemy, according to former Secretary of the Mai Chau district Party
Committee Kha Phuc Giang.
In addition, after setting up a logistics base
in Mai Chau, the Pathet Lao armed propaganda team came to Vietnam to coordinate
with Vietnam’s military units to establish a Vietnam - Laos joint armed
propaganda team. Within two months, this team worked actively in the two
countries’ border areas and along the Ma River, leaving strong impression on
local residents.
During the resistance war against the US, Mai
Chau also witnessed evidence of the Vietnam - Laos friendship when it was a
transit point for goods, foods, ammunition, and medicine from Hai Phong Port to
Sam Neua town of Laos. Along Road 15 from Suoi Rut to Van Mai, many places were
used to store weapons and vehicles of the Lao army. In particular, Mai Chau
also accommodated a school for training Lao cadres during this period.
Upholding that precious tradition, after the
war, the district sent many of its experienced personnel to assist the
localities facing difficulties in Laos.
Ha Cong Nghi, Standing Vice Secretary of the Mai
Chau district Party Committee, said nowadays, though there haven’t been many
economic activities between Mai Chau and Viengxay and Sop Bao districts of
Laos’ Houaphanh province, the two sides have still organised frequent meetings
and cultural exchanges to help intensify the faithful and close-knit ties
between Vietnam and Laos./.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and other officials on April 8 examined some key transport projects, namely the road connecting Tran Hung Dao Road and Dan Chu ward with National Highway 6, the regional connectivity road linking Hoa Binh and Hanoi with Son La Expressway (Hoa Binh - Moc Chau), and the first phase of a road from Luong Son township of Hoa Binh to Xuan Mai township of Hanoi.
Hoa Binh province recorded nearly 20 cases of religion-related wrongdoings in 2023 and the first two months of 2024. However, thanks to their active and effective engagement, relevant agencies and religious organisations have helped the provincial and district-level People’s Committees deal with those cases in a timely manner and in line with legal regulations, thus ensuring religious freedom.
The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee held its monthly conference in virtual form on April 2 to review draft documents to be submitted to the standing board of the provincial Party Committee and others under its management along with some other important issues. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the event, which was connected with the people's committees of districts and cities in Hoa Binh.
Smokeless 'Hoang Cam' kitchen was a small yet extremely significant initiative of a soldier chef named Hoang Cam in the Hoa Binh campaign in 1951 – 1952. This legendary stove, later named after him, accompanied the nation in the 1954 Dien Bien Phu Campaign, and during the resistance war against the US.
The 15th meeting of Hoa Binh province’s 17th-tenure Party organisation was held on March 26. Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh co-chaired the event.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, chaired a meeting of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 21 to review the leadership over the implementation of tasks in the first quarter, identify focal tasks and solutions for the second quarter, and discuss some important draft reports.
