YBO - The Women's Entrepreneurs Association in Yen Bai province has 218 members divided into five clubs, including Yen Bai City Club, Muong Lo Club (Nghia Lo), Co Phuc Town Club (Tran Yen), Mai Son Club (Luc Yen) and Yen Binh Club.

YBO - Fukada Kaede is one of the 16 volunteers of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) who have been taking part in the Vietnam - Japan development cooperation programme in the Southeast Asian country. She will work in Nghia Lo town of Yen Bai province for two years.

YBO - La Pan Tan is a remote commune of Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province, with more than 90 percent of its population being Mong ethnic people. Local residents mainly earn their living from farming and still maintain outdated practices and preference of boys to girls.

Promoting domestic production of wood materials plays an important role in minimising instabilities related to wood imports for processing in the future, said insiders.

YBO - Vice Secretary of the Yen Bai provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Huy Tuan on March 7 visited and extended greetings to the provincial Women’s Union on the 112th International Women’s Day (March 8, 1910 - 2022) and 1,982 years since the Trung Sisters Uprising.

YBO - Chairman of the Yen Bai provincial People’s Committee Tran Huy Tuan, head of the province’s steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control, on March 3 issued an urgent dispatch on the continued implementation of measures against the coronavirus disease.

YBO - Yen Bai is sending 62 students, including 59 from Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted, one from Le Quy Don High School, another from Chu Van An High School, and the last from the provincial Ethnic Minority Boarding High School, to the national examination for excellent students from March 4-5.

YBO - The Standing Board of the Yen Bai provincial Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) has launched the Youth Month with a ceremony held at the Lung Lo Pass national historical relic site in Da Village of Thuong Bang La commune, Van Chan district. It also launched an emulation movement and construction of the youth’s facilities in celebration of the coming all-level HCYU congresses for 2022 - 2027.

YBO - Leaders of Yen Bai province have visited local health establishments on the occasion of the 67th Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27, 1955 - 2022).

YBO - As of 4pm on February 24, heavy rains and gritting cold weather starting from February 19 had caused losses of about 1.3 billion (56,955 USD) to Yen Bai province.

The State visit to Singapore by Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, with many agreements inked, has laid an important foundation for the two countries to develop and be more inter-connected to become role models for Southeast Asia, according to Assoc. Prof. Vu Minh Khuong.

YBO - Yen Bai province and the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) have recently signed a cooperation agreement on a digital transformation implementation strategy in the province for 2022-2025, with a vision to 2030.

YBO - The Van Yen health centre in Yen Bai on February 16 received a 27-year-old patient who had been transferred from Phong Du Thuong clinic. The patient was in shock and suffered blood loss, had pale skin, cold limbs, fast pulse and low blood pressure due to a wound in the stomach.

Frost appeared on Mount Trong Pao Sang in La Pan Tan commune of Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province, on February 20 as a result of a severe cold wave.

YBO - To help local people with difficult circumstances enjoy a warm celebration of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival in decent houses, agencies, organisations, businesses, and donors in Yen Bai have joined hands to finance the construction of houses, dubbed "solidarity houses", for them in response to the motto "All for the poor, no one being left behind”.

YBO - For this year, 1,190 youngsters in Yen Bai have enlisted to serve in the armed forces, of whom 950 have been recruited by the military and 240 by the police. The province has seen 100 youngsters volunteer to join the army.

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Retreat (AMMR) took place both in person and via videoconference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on February 17 to discuss issues such as COVID-19, economic recovery and relations with dialogue partners.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a spring festival of ethnic groups and launched the 2022 tree planting festival at the Culture - Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Hanoi on February 12.

YBO - The Party Committee of the Agencies and Businesses’ Bloc of Yen Bai province, the province’s Business Association, and the Hoa Binh Minh Group JSC held a ceremony on February 9 to launch production and business activities and start the construction of a TOYOTA showroom.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a speech at the National Foreign Relations Conference for the Implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, on December 14.

YBO - On the first working day of the Lunar New Year (February 7), localities, agencies, and units across Yen Bai province have launched the tree planting festival, an annual activity held every spring.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on February 8 chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat to review the organisation of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

YBO - Secretary of the Party Committee of Yen Bai and head of the provincial delegation of deputies to the 15th National Assembly Do Duc Duy has sent a New Year greeting letter to local residents on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. Following is the full text of the letter.

YBO - On the occasion of the 92nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 – 2022) and the upcoming Lunar New Year, leaders of Yen Bai province visited and extended Tet wishes to local policy beneficiary families and disadvantaged households.

YBO - Xoe is known as the heritage of the Thai ethnic minority people in the northwestern region. Xoe Thai art is a symbol of beauty. It contains the artistic values of dance, music, singing, costumes, cuisine and cultural behaviour of the Thai community. It also reflects the philosophy of happiness of the Thai ethnic people.