YBO - This year, the Yen Bai Vovinam - Karate championships drew 180 athletes of six Vovinam and eight Karate delegations from districts, townships and Yen Bai city as well as provincial departments and sectors.

YBO - The Yen Bai provincial People’s Committee and the EREX joint Stock Company of Japan recently held a ground breaking ceremony for the Erex Sakura Yen Bai biomass fuel plant at the Bac Van Yen industrial cluster in Dong Cuong commune of Van Yen district.

YBO – An investment worth of 7.6 billion VND (320,000 USD) to develop a project on preserving a Tay ethnic traditional cultural village in Muong Lai commune, Luc Yen district in the northern province of Yen Bai, was approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation Promotion of Yen Bai province has held a conference to honour collectives, families and individuals with outstanding contributions to the voluntary blood donation movement in 2023.

Yen Bai province's export turnover reached 151.69 million USD in the first six months of 2023, equal to 88% of the set plan and up 4% year-on-year, according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

YBO - As of 5pm on June 27, Yen Bai province had 291,271 accounts on YenBai-S digital citizen app.

YBO – joining over 1 million peers nationwide, more than 8,200 examinees in Yen Bai province engaged in the first day of the 2023 high school graduation tests on June 28.

YBO -Overcoming all difficulties, two male students Giang Anh Tuan and Phan DucHieu from Class 12A1 of Mu Cang Chai High School became the first in the district to achieve IELTS certificate of 7.0 right in the first time of competition.

YBO - Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Yen Bai province Tran Huy Tuan had a meeting with a delegation of the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam led by its Head of Cooperation Brian Allemekinders.

YBO - In the northern province of Yen Bai, all administrative units hold cadres and civil servant conferences; 85% of enterprises organise employee conferences; and all enterprises hold employee dialogues at workplace and build democratic regulations at work with practical contents, meeting interests of employees.

OYB - The Women’s Union of Yen Bai province has organised a welcome ceremony for Saito Yuriko – a volunteer of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), who will work at the provincial women support centre.

YBO- Tran Yen district of Yen Bai province has three products registered for intellectual property protection, comprising green tea, pomelo, and dried cinnamon bark, and four others registered for geographical indications, namely Bat Do bamboo shoots, Tran Yen honey and chicken, and Quy Mong vermicelli.

YBO - Tran Huy Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Yen Bai provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, hosted a reception for a delegation of Japan’s Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital led by Prof. Tanaka Yoshihide, director for health services and head of the Neurosurgery Department at the hospital, on June 2.

YBO - Nearly 200 teachers and students who obtained outstanding achievements in the 2022-2023 school year in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai were honoured at a recent ceremony held by the provincial People’s Committee.

YBO - The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a decision recognising that Yen Bai has completed the illiteracy eradication and met the standards for secondary educational universalisation at level 2 since December 2022.

YBO - On the occasion of the 133rd birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 - 2023), the memorial site dedicated to President Ho Chi Minh in Nghia Lo town welcomed many delegations who came to offer incense in tribute to the late leader.

YBO - The provincial Union of Science and Technology Associations, and the Department of Science and Technology of Yen Bai have organised a workshop to discuss ways to promote the role of intellectuals in the province’s socio-economic development.

YBO – Since 2017, the Women’s Union of Yen Bai province has attracted resources and carried out 28 programmes and projects, along with nine non-project aid packages from international organisations to help build capacity for cadres and members of the union and local residents.

YBO - The Ministry of Information and Communications and Yen Binh district have jointly held a conference on digital transformation support with the attendance of Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung and Vice Chairman of the Yen Bai People’s Committee Ngo Hanh Phuc.

YBO – As many as 30 scholarships worth 30 million VND (1,280 USD) were presented to impoverished students at the Yen Bai Centre for Social Work and Social Protection and Cao Pha primary semi-boarding ethnic minority school in Mu Cang Chai district in a recent ceremony held in the northern province of Yen Bai.

YBO– The Women’s Union of Yen Bai province held a conference on May 15 to honour exemplary women in livelihood development in the 2017 - 2023 period. Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee Vu ThiHienHanh, who is also head of the “For the progress of women” Committee of Yen Bai attended and delivered a speech at the event.

YBO - Chairman of the Yen Bai provincial People’s Committee Tran Huy Tuan has met with a visiting delegation of the Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam (INCHAM) led by its Chairman Indronil Sengupta.

YBO - On May 7 morning, Yen Bai city’s Federation of Labour held a meeting in response to the Month for Workers and the Action Month on Occupational Safety and Hygiene in 2023 with the theme “Connecting workers, building up organisations”; “Intensifying the building of safe working procedures and methods and improving working conditions and reducing stress in the workplace”.

69 years ago in the heart of the Muong Thanh valley, the flag “Determined to fight, Determined to win" of the Vietnam People's Army flew on the roof of the General De castries’ bunker, marking the victory of the Dien Bien Phu campaign.

The Department of Education and Training has just organised the final round of the province's English eloquence contest for secondary and high school students in the 2022-2023 school year with the theme "Learning in the digital transformation period".