YBO - On July 13, a delegation of 44 doctors, nurses and technicians departed for Ho Chi Minh City to help the current biggest pandemic hotspot contain COVID-19.

The Vietnamese delegation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics consists of 43 members led by Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Sports Administration Tran Duc Phan, according to a decision issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

YBO - Coming to Tu Le commune, visitors will have a chance to “fly” above Van Chan and Mu Cang Chai districts thanks to an over-1km-long zipline.

YBO - Yen Bai province’s total aquatic product output reached 6,363 tonnes in the first half of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 9.8 percent.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong led a high-ranking delegation of the CPV to attend and deliver a speech at the Communist Party of China (CPC) and World Political Parties Summit which was held in the form of videoconference on July 6.

YBO - The Health Ministry on July 6 in collaboration with the World Health Organisation in Vietnam launched infographic “Truth about COVID-19 vaccines” in both Vietnamese and English versions to raise public awareness of the issue.

YBO - The 19th People’s Council of Yen Bai on July 4 held its first meeting to select a number of key positions of the council as well as the provincial People’s Committee, and the people’s jurors at the provincial People’s Court, and discuss a number of important issues.

YBO - The Yen Bai provincial steering committee for the economic census launched the second phase of this 2021 census at a ceremony in Minh Tan ward of Yen Bai city on July 1.

YBO - Yen Bai province’s Irrigation Sub-department has coordinated with the provincial Children's Activity Center to organise dissemination activities in response to the "National Week of Clean Water and Environmental Sanitation” with the theme "Ensuring water security in clean water supply and rural environmental sanitation for public health”.

YBO - Since 2017, the investment for infrastructure development in Luc Yen district’s extremely disadvantaged areas under the Government’s Programme 135 has amounted to over 104 billion VND (4.5 million USD).

Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on June 25 to discuss the political progress in Syria, Vietnam called for the maintenance of humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people as the political process in this country is still facing a deadlock.

YBO - A questionnaire survey covering 1,000 local residents in Nghia Lo township has revealed that 65.65 percent of them are satisfied with their lives.

YBO - Implementing the Van Yen district Party Organisation's plan to develop and multiply role models in 12 different sectors in the 2016-2021 period, so far the district has seen the emergence of 704 role models.

YBO - On June 15, the province’s steering committee 515 organized a conference to review the implementation of a project on searching and gathering remains of fallen soldiers (Project 1237) and another on identifying remains of fallen soldiers (Project 150) in the 2013-2020 period.

YBO - The People’s Committee of northern Yen Bai province has issued Plan No.137/KH-UBND on the implementation of the UK - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) in the locality.

YBO - Yen Bai province generated jobs for over 80,000 female workers during the 2011-2020 period, accounting for 43.3 percent of the new employments.

YBO - With the message of “Giving a drop of blood, save a life”, a lot of voluntary blood donation campaigns have taken place in the northern province of Yen Bai, including the “Red Spring Festival”, “Red Sunday”, the Voluntary Blood Donation Day (April 7) and Vietnamese Doctor’s Day (February 27).

The National Election Council on June 10, 2021 announced the list of 499 candidates elected to 15th National Assembly.

YBO - As of June 8 afternoon, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Yen Bai province had received nearly 2 billion VND (86,881 USD) in donations to the COVID-19 prevention and control fund of the province and the COVID-19 vaccine fund.

The freshly-concluded sixth Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting offered a chance for countries to affirm their commitments to cooperation in addressing urgent issues in the region, thus ensuring sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development, a Vietnamese official has said.

YBO - Yen Bai province cultivated close to 19,500 ha of spring rice crops this year, 2.4 percent higher than the plan. Productivity was estimated at 55.53 quintals per ha, up 0.1 quintal per ha from last year’s spring harvest, and total output exceeded 108,271 tonnes, surpassing the plan by 2.64 percent.

Yen Binh district of Yen Bai province on June 2 held a conference to announce the detailed construction planning of the Thinh Hung 1 and 2 eco-urban areas covering an estimated area of 94.6 ha in Thinh Hung commune.

YBO - This year, Yen Bai has set up 27 examination councils, 26 for the upcoming high school entrance exam and one for the secondary school entrance exam to the Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted. The province plans to set up 390 exam rooms for more than 9,300 students.

YBO - Eight businesses and cooperatives in Yen Bai province introduced their farm produce and food such as tea, cinnamon and paper products, and cassava powder to Japanese firms at a Vietnam – Japan trade teleconference on June 2.

Implementing the goal of building Yen Bai province into a green, harmonious, and happy area and responding to the Government’s 1-billion-tree planting programme, the provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has carried out many practical activities.