YBO - As many as 60 households in eight communal-level localities of Tram Tau district voluntarily asked for their removal from the list of poor ones in the first half of 2021, according to the district’s division for labour, invalids and social affairs.

YBO - In realising its roadmap to become a high-quality school in the system of high schools for gifted students of the country in the 2021-2025 period, Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted in Yen Bai will for the first time recruit students for sixth grade with 80 students in two classes in the 2021-2022 academic year.

YBO - In recent years, Yen Bai province has piloted a support and intervention model to reduce child labour as part of the implementation of the Programme on Child Labour Prevention and Reduction in the 2016-2020 period.

YBO - Along with efforts in giving care and treatment to patients, doctors and nurses of Yen Bai General Hospital has shown strong performance in implementing the voluntary blood donation programme.

YBO - People in Luc Yen district of Yen Bai province have joined hands and donated money to install electric lighting systems along rural roads.

YBO - From 2016 to 2021, Yen Bai province recorded 9,525 women who were honoured for studying and following Uncle Ho’s teachings.

YBO - Implementing the Workers’ Month 2021 programme, themed ‘Solidarity and creativity to overcome difficulties for development’, trade unions at all levels in Yen Bai province launched a host of activities to take care of their members.

YBO - Despite a geographical distance between the provinces, Yen Bai has sent two working groups with 35 officials and doctors to assist Bac Giang that is now the country’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot.

YBO - Hoang Trieu Cong, a 94-year-old voter in Luc Yen district’s Muong Lai commune, said he still perfectly remembers his emotion on the day he joined in the election to select deputies to the country's first National Assembly in 1946, when he had just turned 18.

YBO - This year, Yen Bai province's Yen Binh district is implementing the model of ‘schools of happiness’ in six educational establishments - Binh Minh and Vu Linh kindergartens, Nguyen Viet Xuan and Kim Dong elementary schools, Yen Binh town's secondary school, and Thac Ba town's elementary and secondary school.

YBO - After a period of interruption due to complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, private clinics in Yen Bai province re-opened on May 13.

YBO - Le Quoc Tien, a 12th grader in the Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted, has become one of 144 outstanding students of the country to be exempted from the high school graduation examination and admitted to universities and colleges this year.

Since 2015, localities in Tran Yen district of Yen Bai province have pooled internal resources from local people to build over 1,000 tanks storing pesticide packaging bags.

YBO - Yen Bai province has put into use eight concentrated quarantine facilities with over 1,300 beds serving people with high risk of being infected with COVID-19.

YBO - Amid the complicated developments of COVID-19, localities of Yen Bai have applied various methods to effectively popularise prevention and control measures, helping to prevent the spread of the pandemic in the province.

As of the end of 2020, Yen Bai province had over 8,880 food production and business facilities, of which 2,444 were managed by the health sector, 2,789 by the agricultural sector and 3,638 by the industry and trade sector.

YBO - Administrations and people of Yen Bai province have been making concerted efforts in combating COVID-19.

YBO - Last year, Yen Bai spent over 6.24 trillion VND on implementing five projects under the National Target Programme for Poverty Reduction and enforcing six support policies for poverty reduction.

YBO - Yen Bai province created 7,463 jobs for local people in the first four months of the year, accounting for 38.3 percent of the annual plan, the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said.

YBO - Although most of members of the farmers’ association of Mu Cang Chai district belong to the Mong ethnic minority group living in mountainous areas, they have implemented efficient economic models.

YBO - The provincial People’s Committee on April 15 held a gathering for 113 Lao students in Yen Bai to celebrate Bunpimay, the traditional New Year festival of Laos, and presented gifts to the students on the occasion.

YBO - Leaders of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU)’s chapter in Yen Bai, Mu Cang Chai authorities, and representatives of the “Khan am cho em” charity fund visited Phinh Ho hamlet in De Xu Phinh commune on April 4 to kick off a bamboo-growing project in Mu Cang Chai district.

YBO - Trees have been planted around the Yen Bai College of Pedagogy as part of the school’s campaign to build a green, clean and safe environment.

YBO - The People’s Committee and Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Yen Bai province on March 28 organised a ceremony to launch the campaign “All people do exercises following the example of great Uncle Ho” during 2021-2030 and the Olympic Day Run for Public Health in 2021.

YBO - The northern province of Yen Bai detected 1,113 cases of illegal immigration in 2015-2020, with 1,796 violators, most of them ethnic people of Mong, Dao, Tay, Cao Lan and Thai, among others.