YBO - The Yen Bai provincial Steering Committee for the 2023 High School Graduation Exam and the High School Entrance Exam for the 2023-2024 school year have held a conference to announce the organisation of the exams.

YBO - After 3 years of operating and using the software to manage officials, civil servants and public employees, Yen Bai has completed the database on officials, civil servants and public employees at all levels from communal to provincial levels with 26,007 electronic records.

YBO - The Department of Education and Training of the northern province of Yen Bai cooperated with the EDUCA Education Corporation to organise a special round of the English contest "Vi Yen Bai gioi Tieng Anh” (For Yen Bai mastering English) for primary school students in the 2022 - 2023 schoolyear.

YBO - To mark this year’s International Labour Day (May 1), the Labour Federation of Yen Bai province has responded to the Workers' Month by organising all-level trade union congresses and other activities of trade unions.

YBO - Currently, Yen Bai houses ten villages with electricity but no mobile signal and 124 areas without 4G access, mostly in the districts of Luc Yen, Mu Cang Chai, Van Yen, Tram Tau and Yen Binh.

YBO - Van Yen district sent a team with 79 members to the provincial Excellent Student Contest 2022-2023 for junior high school students. The team competed in nine exams of Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, History, Geography, English and Informatics on March 2 and 3.

YBO - After two months of piloting YenBai-S digital citizen application, the northern province of Yen Bai has organised 48 training sessions for over 1,600 people from 49 units and 15 communes and wards on utilising the application.

YBO - The People's Committee of Tram Tau district has just coordinated with the Yen Bai Provincial Museum to open a thematic exhibition on Vietnam’s ethnic communities and religions in the cause of national building and defence, as part of activities to celebrate the 15th Culture Day of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups (April 19) and the 48th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30).

YBO - The People's Committee of northern Yen Bai province on April 12 held a meeting and presented gifts to Lao students who are studying at local vocational schools, on the occasion of Laos' traditional New Year festival Boun Pimay.

Born in the same commune of Xuan Ai, Van Yen district in northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, two female students Tran Thi Dao and Bam Kim Thu have overcome difficulties to pursue outstanding educational achievements.

YBO - Over the past years, the loan programme for employment under the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) – Yen Bai province branch has made important contributions to maintaining, expanding and creating jobs for thousands of workers in Yen Bai.

YBO - Not only a good teacher at the provincial level, Hoang Van On, Secretary of Tram Tau High School's Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, is the only representative of Yen Bai province to receive the Ly Tu Trong Awards 2023.

YBO - Young people in Yen Bai province have made great efforts to accelerate digital transformation, contributing to concretising the resolution of the 19th provincial Party Congress on digital transformation in the 2020 - 2025 period, with a vision to 2030.

YBO - Instead of using blackboards or chalks, with a laptop connected to the Internet and a projector, students can learn and speak in English to their peers around the world like India, China, and Singapore. This is part of a “borderless” lesson of Nguyen Thi Thuy, a teacher of English at the Tran Phu Primary School in Yen The township of Luc Yen district, Yen Bai province.

YBO - The educational sector of Yen Bai province is said to have recorded a “bumper harvest” with 33 prizes in the 2023 national examinations for excellent high school students (including two first-place prizes), three prizes higher than the target. More than half of the participating students won prizes, two of them chosen as candidates for the national teams to compete at international tests.

YBO - As a provincial-level hospital specialised in the management and treatment of tuberculosis and other lung diseases, the provincial Lung Hospital of Yen Bai has effectively conducted tuberculosis screening in the community to ensure timely treatment for those who are infected with the disease.

YBO - Yen Bai’s happiness index is measured following three criteria – people’s life satisfaction, living environment, and people’s longevity. There are four factors for the assessment of life satisfaction - satisfaction with economic conditions; relationships in family and society; policies on social security, social welfare and contact with public authorities.

YBO - To assists locals to seek stable jobs, the staff of the employment service centre of Yen Bai province have been working hard to ensure effective consultation since the year’s beginning.

YBO - The Standing Committee of the Yen Bai provincial Youth Union and the Department of Home Affairs launched Youth Month 2023 with the theme "Yen Bai youth pioneering in digital transformation" in Na Hau commune, Van Yen district.

YBO - Teacher Do Thi Loan - vice principal of Kim Noi Kindergarten in Mu Cang Chai district is the author of many educational initiatives serving the teaching work not only at her school but also other schools in the locality over the last 15 years.

The Board of Healthcare Services for People of Yen Bai province has just issued Plan No. 34/KH-BCD to improve nutrition for local children under the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the province for the 2022- 2025 period.

Vietnamese striker Nguyen Tien Linh has been listed among the 25 nominees for the Best Footballer in Asia 2022 award organised by Titan Sports of China.

YBO - 2022 marked the year when the resolution adopted at the 13th National Party Congress started to be put into place, and Yen Bai fulfilled many targets set in its action programme thanks to solidarity and great efforts.

YBO - There are many different conceptions of happiness, but to Mong ethnic people in general and those in Suoi Giang commune of Yen Bai province’s Van Chan district in particular, happiness is very simple.

YBO - Many activities were organised in Yen Bai province on the occasion of Tet (Lunar New Year) 2023, including visiting, presenting gifts to and supporting social policy beneficiary families and those with difficult circumstances.