September and October are the time when the highland district of Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai province) is immersed in the golden color of ripe rice fields.

These are 6 of 121 Vietnamese culinary dishes that have just been honored by the Vietnam Cuisine Culture Association (VCCA) as typical national dishes in phase I of a project titled "Building and Developing Vietnamese Culinary Culture into a National Brand Name”. All of these 6 dishes, including: Hue beef noodle soup, glutinous rice dumplings stuffed with roasted pork in sweet soup, mussel rice, banh loc (glutinous rice dumplings), vegetarian fig salad, and lotus-leaf-wrapped steamed rice; all are close to the gardens and paddy fields of the land.

The rice grains sown in a field tells a historical story, the healing of the pain of the past and reminds young people of the importance of food in modern life. The artists have created an artwork about the process from sowing to harvesting by making an art video with country music background.

On the afternoon of October 3, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Phuong hosted a courtesy reception and had a working session with a delegation of the Embassy of Finland to Vietnam, led by Mr. Keijo Norvanto, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of The Republic of Finland to Vietnam.

The 1st Quang Dien Half Marathon 2023 promises to bring to runners novel experience to run on the route amidst the vast nature with green colors of the fields and endless water waves in Tam Giang.

That is the brilliant yellow of the sunshine and the wind, and of the ripe rice fields with the corpulent, firm rice grains. That is also the yellow of straw and the pleased faces of farmers on the harvest days. The scene of the countryside is bustling and animated but simply beautiful.