YBO - Yen Bai is currently home to 173 communal-level medical units meeting national standards on health care, accounting for over 79 percent of the total across the province.

YBO - According to Yen Bai province’s Social Insurance Agency, the local Health Insurance Fund pays 600-800 billion VND for medical examination and treatment each year. In many cases, patients are paid up to hundreds of millions of VND for a course of treatment.

The Women's Union in Van Yen district has been implementing a campaign on building hygienic habits for families initiated by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Central Committee alongside another on building civilised lifestyle in urban and rural areas, with encouraging results.

YBO - Nearly 226,000 students in Yen Bai province officially began the 2021 - 2022 academic year on September 5 morning.

In the four waves of COVID-19 infections, the awareness, sense of responsibility, and self-consciousness of each people are an important factor helping Yen Bai province succeed in combating the pandemic so far.

YBO - A project was carried out in Minh An and Binh Thuan communes of Van Chan district from October 2019 to July 2021 to improve cadres’ capacity and people’s awareness to facilitate access to support services for women and children affected by gender-based violence.

YBO - Nghia Lo township in the northern province of Yen Bai has launched its movement to build lighted, green and beautiful roads since 2020 as part of its efforts to encourage cultured behaviours and good lifestyle of local residents.

YBO - On August 20 morning, 30 doctors and nurses in Yen Bai province set out for Dong Nai province to help with the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in this southern province - one of the five localities with the highest increase in the number of infections in the country at present.

YBO - Implementing a project to support woman in beginning business in the 2017-2025 period and the movement of “women showing strong performance in economic production,” the Women’s Union in Nghia Lo township of Yen Bai province has supported the formation of economic development models of women, maintaining seven women-led enterprises and assisting 215 members in developing new livelihood models and launching 189 business models.

YBO - In the first 6 months of 2021, 4,599 households in Yen Bai received loans worth 91.8 billion VND to build and put into use clean water works.

YBO - Van Yen District’s Red Cross Society has more than 3,500 members across its 27 commune-based chapters and 14,000 young volunteers.

YBO - With an aim to promote the comprehensive development of Yen Bai people in both physical and mental aspects, Yen Bai has given five standards of “friendliness, kindness, solidarity, creativity, and integration” for local residents to head to in their efforts to develop themselves.

YBO - The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Yen Bai province, in collaboration with World Vision Vietnam, organised a forum at the commune level from August 3-11 to collect children’s ideas in 2021, with the following topics of “Children with children's issues, especially physical violence, violence on the cyber space”, “Children join hands in ensuring children’s rights and protecting children during natural disasters and diseases’.

YBO - Yen Bai province is home to 1,347 Agent Orange/dioxin victims eligible for State allowances, including 735 ex-revolutionaries and their 612 children who were directly exposed to AO/dioxin. There are 26 cases in the third generation.

Sixty years have passed since the US army dropped tens of millions of extremely toxic chemicals on various areas across the south of Vietnam, but their devastating impact still lingers, destroying the environment and claiming the lives of many generations of Agent Orange (AO) victims.

YBO - New roads have been built to expand connections between the centre of Yen Bai province with future urban areas as well as the development space for the city on the banks of Hong River. They have contributed to creating a modern appearance for the young Yen Bai city.

YBO - Van Yen district of Yen Bai province currently has 836 social policy beneficiaries who are revolutionary contributors, wounded and sick soldiers, families of martyrs, revolutionary activists before 1945, and heroic Vietnamese mothers.

YBO - With collected items and scraps, a group of eighth graders of Co Phuc Secondary School in Yen Bai province's Tran Yen district has made a model of the historic Dien Bien Phu Campaign, making learners excited and easy to remember the very detailed and vivid battles.

YBO - Over the past years, the promotion of studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's moral examples has attracted the participation of officials and teachers of schools in Van Yen district, Yen Bai province.

YBO - Van Yen district has established a team of volunteer drivers to support the prevention and control of the COVID--19 epidemic in the locality.

YBO - The Standing Committee of the Yen Bai Women's Union has organised an online contest themed "Yen Bai women behave nicely”.

YBO - Van Chan district in the northern province of Yen Bai is now home to over 6,000 policy beneficiaries, more than 554 of them enjoy monthly allowances totaling over 1 billion VND. The district also has two heroic Vietnamese mothers - Nguyen Thi Hoa in Tran Phu farm and Nguyen Thi Coi in Dong Khe commune.

Over the years, the Labour Federation of Tran Yen district has sped up the fundraising for the Trade Union Social Fund to care for trade union members, especially those facing difficulties.

YBO - The British Council coordinated with the Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted in Yen Bai province to organise the IELTS English language test from July 1 to 3. This was the first time an IELTS exam had been held in the city.

YBO - As many as 60 households in eight communal-level localities of Tram Tau district voluntarily asked for their removal from the list of poor ones in the first half of 2021, according to the district’s division for labour, invalids and social affairs.