Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – the country’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.

The district of Van Yen has recently launched a stall displaying local “One Commune, One Product” products at Dong Cuong Temple in Ben Den village, Dong Cuong commune on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2021.

The placing of Vietnamese universities in prestigious global rankings has continually been on the rise in recent times despite the country’s much shorter history in terms of higher education.

Vietnam Airlines has proposed it be officially permitted by authorised health agencies to transport COVID-19 vaccines from overseas.

Vietnam documented no COVID-19 infections in the past 12 hours as of 6:00 am on February 25, making the tally unchanged at 2412, including 1,513 locally transmitted cases, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Thirteen patients in a COVID-19 treatment hospital in Hai Duong province, the country’s current largest coronavirus hotspot were given the all-clear on February 24.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a resolution approving the fourth Protocol to amend the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) signed on July 15, 2020.

YBO - Member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of Yen Bai province’s Party Committee Do Duc Duy, permanent Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Ta Van Long, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Huy Tuan attended a ceremony in response to the Year of the Ox tree planting festival in Phu Thinh commune, Yen Binh district on February 17.

Vietnamese Ambassador Tran Duc Binh took office as Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs at a ceremony in Jakarta on February 15.

I would like to extend my warmest regards to people from all ethnic minority groups, soldiers in the armed forces, officials, public servants, businesspeople, and workers in Yen Bai province.

YBO - The northern province of Yen Bai has for the first time presented gifts to all local poor households on the occasion of Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, the biggest traditional festival of Vietnamese people.

YBO - The People’s Committee of Yen Bai province has issued a plan for foot-mouth disease (FMD) prevention for cattle in the 2021-2025 period.

YBO - The People’s Committee of Yen Bai has awarded 57 collectives of agencies, units and localities and 66 individuals in recognition of their outstanding performance to fulfill tasks and goals assigned to them under the province’s Action Programme 190 and State budget collection in 2020.

The freshly-concluded 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam has set forth a comprehensive strategy of turning Vietnam into a developed country in the next 25 years, a Vietnamese professor in the US has said.

The 13th National Party Congress held a working session in the afternoon of January 30, and heard a report on the results of the election and announcement of the list of the 200 elected to the 13th-tenure Party Central Committee, including 180 official and 20 alternate members.

The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has received congratulatory messages from the communist parties of Russia, France and India.

A total 1,587 delegates representing more than 5 million Party members nationwide are attending the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which officially kicked off in Hanoi on January 26.

The preparatory session for the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam took place at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on January 25.

The association of literature and arts of Lao Cai province has recently held a ceremony to announce winners of a short story writing contest launched on the joint art magazine of Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Phu Tho provinces.

The Yen Bai Confederation of Labour has been making efforts to bring a warmer Tet (Lunar New Year) festival to local workers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc paid a visit to the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) on January 20, during which he praised the efforts, activeness and creativity of the association at all levels in protecting the legitimate rights of Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims as well as caring and supporting them.

YBO - As of December 15, equipment had been installed and put into trial run at certain hospitals in Yen Bai province under the “Decentralised health care systems – Telemedicine project at Viet Duc Hospital to provincial hospitals”

The 15th plenum of the Party Central Committee wrapped up on January 17 after completing all the contents of its agenda.

YBO - The Yen Bai Party Committee kicked off the “Celebrating one Tet together” campaign in late 2012, which encouraged Mong ethnic people to change their mindset on a tradition that no longer suits their current modern living conditions.

YBO - Almost supermarkets, retail outlets and shops in Yen Bai city have thoroughly prepared for goods to serve consumers during year’s end and the 2021 Lunar New Year festival.