Vietnam's Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 which is performing duties at the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan has organised activities to raise awareness of health care and daily gynecological hygiene for local women on the occasion of the International Women's Day (March 8).

YBO - Since early 2022, Yen Bai’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) has accelerated the implementation of the movement “Youth’s Creativity” across the province and taken various measures to foster creativity among the young people and children.

YBO - Youth organisations in Mu Cang Chai district and Yen Bai city have organised many activities to support households whose members are COVID-19 patients quarantined and treated at home.

YBO - From the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022, nearly 15 enterprises outside the province registered on the website of Yen Bai province’s Employment Service Centre to recruit workers from Yen Bai. These enterprises mainly came from Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, and Quang Ninh.

YBO - The General Hospital of Yen Bai recently launched its cancer screening and treatment support unit, hoping it will offer additional high quality medical services in the province and improve patients’ experience, as well as reduce treatment costs, especially for cancer patients.

YBO - With their passion for scientific research, Hoang Mai Phuong and Bui Khanh Ly, 12th graders of the Le Quy Don senior high school in Tran Yen district, have conducted an e-book project on the education in local history. The project won the third prize of a provincial-level sci-tech competition.

YBO - For 2022, Yen Bai was assigned to recruit 1,190 citizens for army and public security units. Localities in the province have completed preparations for recruit hand-over ceremonies.

YBO - In the coming time, the department will continue to strictly and drastically implement the three-pillar principles of pandemic prevention and control and the formula of "5K message + vaccines, treatment drugs + raising awareness of officials and civil servants, employees, and students”.

With an aim to raise the happiness index, Yen Bai’s Van Yen district has actively rolled out campaigns in building happy families, hamlets, villages and residential areas.

YBO - Aware of the local strength in herbal plant diversity, Yen Bai province has paid great attention to the expansion of herbal plant farming areas and adopted many policies to support local farmers in the field, thus creating more jobs and increasing their income.

Yen Bai province currently has 39,721 poor households, accounting for 18.07 percent of its total population, and 17,243 households near the poverty line which is equivalent to 7.85 percent, according to the results of a review on the number of poor households in 2021. Thus, the province has determined to reduce the poverty rate by 4 percent this year.

When the old year is nearing its end and spring arrives, a new year is just around the corner. Brilliant and joyful colours of spring have spread to all villages across the mountainous province of Yen Bai, warming up every kitchen as well as the hearts of both local residents and visitors.

YBO - Peach blossoms are in bloom as a herald of spring. The new season promises joy and passion in Yen Bai.

YBO - On Lunar New Year holiday, everyone looks forward to returning to their families for reunion after a year of hard work. For Yen Bai residents, their journey back home is so special because the province has welcomed them back from the COVID-19 hotspots.

YBO - The "Happy village" model was formed in De Xu Phinh commune, Mu Cang Chai district, to encourage residents to abide by the guidelines and policies of the Party and State as well as village regulations, while supporting each other in economic development, thus raising the happiness index for local people.

YBO - Medical stations in Yen Bai province have actively raised public awareness of fighting winter-spring diseases that potentially cause food poisoning, enhanced epidemiological supervision, especially the COVID-19 pandemic in towns, wards and communes.

YBO - A contest highlighting Yen Bai women’s meaningful activities drew more than 6,400 interactions, nearly 1,900 comments and over 1,900 shares of entries.

YBO - On January 10, VinGroup’s Thien Tam Fund, in collaboration with the provincial Fatherland Front and relevant units, presented 1,000 gift packages, worth 600,000 VND each, to poor households in 23 communes of Luc Yen district ahead of Tet (the traditional Lunar New Year) holiday.

YBO - The People's Committee of Yen Bai province has issued Plan No.294/KH-UBND on the implementation of a school health programme in the locality in the 2021 – 2025 period.

YBO - With more than 3,000 verses of luc bat (six-eight) poem briefing world history from the primitive period to 2015, Le Van Cuong, a history teacher of Cam An high school in Yen Bai’s Yen Binh district set a national record for the longest poem explaining world history in the form of luc bat in 2016.

A “borderless class” has been introduced by the Quang Trung Secondary School in Yen Bai city, the provincial capital, providing a new, attractive learning experience, helping connect urban students and those living in remote areas, and facilitating innovation in teaching toward the use of Industry 4.0 in education.

YBO - Ethnic minorities account for 38.47 percent of the population of Tran Yen district in Yen Bai province. The district still has four extremely underprivileged hamlets in Hong Ca and Luong Thinh communes.

YBO - This year, an illiteracy elimination class was opened for ethnic minority women in Pung Luong commune, Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province as part of a concerted effort between the provincial education promotion association and the district’s education and training division.

YBO - In the recent past, the Union of Friendship Organisations of Yen Bai province has actively coordinated with related agencies to disseminate the Party and State’s guidelines and policy on foreign affairs and introduce local development orientations, customs, culture, tourism, and people to domestic and international friends.

YBO - As a poor mountainous district with the majority of population being Mong ethnic minority group, Mu Cang Chai has worked hard to expand the coverage of voluntary social insurance with an aim to implement the Party's social welfare policies among ethnic minority communities.