On Son Ca island in Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago of Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province, nearly 1,000 nautical miles from the mainland, there is a complex dedicated to General Vo Nguyen Giap.

YBO - Vu Manh Thang and Ly Thi Sam Sung are among the most successful young people in Yen Binh district of northern mountainous Yen Bai province who are not afraid of changing to find their own ways of doing business.

YBO - The youth union of Yen Bai province has launched a campaign to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

YBO - A total of 3,200 gift packages are set to be given away to the poor at a store offering groceries free of charge which has been jointly launched by the Asia – Pacific Investment JSC, Yen Bai provincial Women’s Union, and Nghia Lo township People’s Committee in Nghia Lo township.

YBO - William Hubert, a 95-year-old US war veteran, has presented 20 million VND (851 USD) to help Yen Bai fight the COVID-19 pandemic and build houses for revolutionary contributors and needy people.

YBO - Following social distancing measures as directed by the Prime Minister and the provincial People's Committee, many agencies and units in Yen Bai province have requested their officials and public servants to apply information technology and suitable solutions to work from home from April 1.

In order to support taxpayers affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, the provincial Department of Taxaxion has told district-level tax offices to timely inform and guide taxpayers in filling out and submitting applications for postponement of tax payment without penalty for businesses that had to suspend or stop operations in line with the Law on Taxation and latest legal documents.

YBO - “I am always willing to give blood whenever needed,” said Nguyen Huu Loi, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Minh Bao commune, Yen Bai city. He has donated blood 12 times.

YBO - The inter-sectoral medical quarantine checkpoint No.1 at the IC12 intersection on the Hanoi-Lao Cai highway is one of the nine points of the same kind established to curb the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic under a decision of the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee. The checkpoints began operation on March 28.

YBO - For the past over two months, a number of agencies, businesses, collectives and individuals in Yen Bai province have donated money, time, efforts, experience and practical initiatives to the COVID-19 prevention and control.

YBO - About 5,500 people registered to be blood donors in Yen Bai province in 2019, contributing 2,904 units of the valuable fluid. The rate of repeaters is 30 percent.

YBO - Starting from March 28, religious organisations in Yen Bai province have been refraining from holding ceremonies and rituals which attract large crowds in an attempt to contain the COVID-19 spread, in line with guidance of the Government and the province as well as recommendations of relevant agencies.

YBO - Public passenger vehicles in the northern province of Yen Bai have stopped operation from April 1 to 15, joining a nationwide COVID-19 fight.

YBO - The Yen Bai Department of Education and Training has partnered with the province’s portal to broadcast televised lectures for ninth and twelfth graders in the province.

YBO - This special donor was Nguyen Binh Minh, an 8-year-old boy who is a second grader of Tran Phu Primary School in Yen The township, Luc Yen district.

YBO - Due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam and the world, showing the responsibility for the community through making honest health declaration and following quarantine requirements are vital.

Yen Bai has decided to issue a set of new texbook selection criteria for general education institutions across the northern province in 2020-2021 academic year.

A wide variety of practical activities were held nationwide in response to Youth Month 2020, looking towards the 89th founding anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (March 26, 1931-2020).

YBO - It is easier to assign homework to students during days off due to COVID-19 outbreak in urban areas than remote, rural and minority-inhabited areas where living conditions remain in difficulty.

As the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) continues to spread, the Ministry of Education and Training has again rescheduled the closing date of the 2019 – 2020 academic year, to July 15, while the national high school graduation exam was postponed to August 8 – 11 this year.

In Dispatch No 490/UBND-TH dated March 4, 2020, the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province assigned tasks for departments and sectors; leaders of districts, towns and cities; and relevant agencies to support local businesses in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak.

YBO - Yen Bai city’s Friendship Association and the France-Vietnam Friendship Association have together inaugurated a playzone for kids at the local medical centre’s paediatrics division.

YBO - On March 2 morning, students at 39 senior high schools, Continuing Education Centres and colleges in Yen Bai returned to school after a long-lasting closure prompted by the threat of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

YBO - The Youth Month 2020 was launched on March 1 in Minh Xuan commune, Luc Yen district, northern Yen Bai province, by the provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

YBO - The provincial Health Department and the Yen Bai General Hospital have collaborated with the steering committee for voluntary blood donation mobilization and the education and training division of Luc Yen district in organizing the blood donation programme in 2020.