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.

YBO - In realising its roadmap to become a high-quality school in the system of high schools for gifted students of the country in the 2021-2025 period, Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted in Yen Bai will for the first time recruit students for sixth grade with 80 students in two classes in the 2021-2022 academic year.

YBO - In recent years, Yen Bai province has piloted a support and intervention model to reduce child labour as part of the implementation of the Programme on Child Labour Prevention and Reduction in the 2016-2020 period.

YBO - Along with efforts in giving care and treatment to patients, doctors and nurses of Yen Bai General Hospital has shown strong performance in implementing the voluntary blood donation programme.

YBO - People in Luc Yen district of Yen Bai province have joined hands and donated money to install electric lighting systems along rural roads.

YBO - From 2016 to 2021, Yen Bai province recorded 9,525 women who were honoured for studying and following Uncle Ho’s teachings.

YBO - Implementing the Workers’ Month 2021 programme, themed ‘Solidarity and creativity to overcome difficulties for development’, trade unions at all levels in Yen Bai province launched a host of activities to take care of their members.

YBO - Despite a geographical distance between the provinces, Yen Bai has sent two working groups with 35 officials and doctors to assist Bac Giang that is now the country’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot.

YBO - Hoang Trieu Cong, a 94-year-old voter in Luc Yen district’s Muong Lai commune, said he still perfectly remembers his emotion on the day he joined in the election to select deputies to the country's first National Assembly in 1946, when he had just turned 18.

YBO - This year, Yen Bai province's Yen Binh district is implementing the model of ‘schools of happiness’ in six educational establishments - Binh Minh and Vu Linh kindergartens, Nguyen Viet Xuan and Kim Dong elementary schools, Yen Binh town's secondary school, and Thac Ba town's elementary and secondary school.

YBO - After a period of interruption due to complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, private clinics in Yen Bai province re-opened on May 13.

YBO - Le Quoc Tien, a 12th grader in the Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted, has become one of 144 outstanding students of the country to be exempted from the high school graduation examination and admitted to universities and colleges this year.

Since 2015, localities in Tran Yen district of Yen Bai province have pooled internal resources from local people to build over 1,000 tanks storing pesticide packaging bags.

YBO - Yen Bai province has put into use eight concentrated quarantine facilities with over 1,300 beds serving people with high risk of being infected with COVID-19.

YBO - Amid the complicated developments of COVID-19, localities of Yen Bai have applied various methods to effectively popularise prevention and control measures, helping to prevent the spread of the pandemic in the province.