During her 80 years of life, Hoang Thi Quan has almost four decades as a master of the “Then” singing and become a famous “Then” practitioner in Van Yen - the land of cinnamon.

YBO - Activities in the summer volunteer youth campaign are being carried out simultaneously and creatively that suit local conditions.

YBO - According to the Yen Bai Department of Education and Training, a provincial-level contest to select excellent secondary students in the school year 2019-2020 ended, with 258 awards presented including nine first, 39 second, 74 third and 136 consolation prizes.

YBO - With her courage, confidence and acumen, Trieu Thi Minh Hien, a farmer from Son Trung village, Mai Son commune, Luc Yen district who used to work full-time on the farms, has become a successful businesswoman highly regarded by local people and authorities.

YBO - In the recent past, Yen Bai province has harnessed resources for promoting the expanded immunisation programme. Aside from opportunely providing sufficient vaccines, other supplies and funding, all-level authorities, sectors, organisations and localities have coordinated in steering and organising the programme implementation.

YBO - A swimming pool has been built by Yen Bai province’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union for local children and youths at a cost of 10.8 billion VND.

Having wholeheartedly devoted his life to the nation and its people, President Ho Chi Minh is not only the beloved leader of the Vietnamese people but he has also won the appreciation of many politicians, culturists and artists around the world, who have praised him as an outstanding figure and a great example of perfect personality.

All elementary schools and kindergartens in Yen Bai province re-opened on May 11 after three months of closure to help curb the spread of the COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic was like a test of the heart. Together with the whole country, the "flowers" of good deeds in Yen Bai have blossomed with the spirit of "solidarity" for the community, ready to help each other overcome difficulties on the front of the disease prevention.

YBO - Yen Bai province is now home to 700 elderly people owning farms or enterprises and 904 members of the Association of the Elderly succeeding in economic activities.

YBO - Despite having to face numerous difficulties and challenges, all the communes in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have had primary schools and health facilities. The province has supported tuition fees for more than 535,000 students and lunches for kindergarten children aged 3-5 years, besides offering preferential policies for semi-boarding schools.

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.