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.

The traditional medicine association of Yen Bai province now has 1,459 members.

YBO - In 2022, the number of child marriage cases in Mu Cang Chai district decreased by 76 compared to 2019.

YBO - In 2022, there were 270 households living in poverty or disadvantaged circumstances who needed support to build houses in Yen Binh district.

YBO - Yen Bai Airfield, put into use in 1968, was one of the important air bases in keeping combat readiness for units of the Vietnam People’s Air Force.

YBO - An exhibition is underway at the Hoa Lo Prison relic site in Hanoi to help the public gain an insight into the fierce 12-day-and-night struggle against US airstrikes in late 1972 to defend the capital.

YBO - Mrs. Mai Thi Thong in Thap Cai village, Vien Son commune (Van Yen district) and other women in the commune have concentrated on planting and processing medicinal plants of the Dao ethnic minority people into commercial products.

YBO - The Women’s Union of the northern province of Yen Bai has been taking activities to engage agencies, sectors, individuals, organisations and the whole society in ensuring the safety of women and girls.

YBO - Yen Bai city has hosted a ceremony to honour outstanding contributors to charity activities for the poor and present certificates of merit to 30 groups with excellent achievements in poverty reduction.

YBO - In Yen Bai, there are many roads, not wide and unpaved as they are but come into being as a result of the heart, sweat and efforts of youth and donators to children and people in mountainous areas.