(HBO) – Developing new-style rural areas has brought a facelift to Yen Phu commune in Lac Son district, with public works such as schools and health stations upgraded, thus improving living conditions for local people.

Programme launched to build 120 houses for revolution contributors

(HBO) – The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Hoa Binh province coordinated with the Tien Phong Newspaper and the Phuc Son Group JSC to hold a ceremony handing over the funding for building houses for revolution contributors.

Provincial Fatherland Front Committee: Inaugurating the residential street and handing over the House of Great Solidarity to the poor households

(HBO) - On July 25, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee coordinated to organize the inauguration and handover of the residential street and the House of Great Solidarity House to the poor households in Lac Son district. Mr. Bui Tien Luc, the Head of the Provincial Party’s Commision for Mass Mobilization, the Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the leaders of the District’s Party Committee and the Party Committees, the local authorities and a large number of people attended.

Special policies needed to tap potential of Da Bac district

(HBO) - Besides the advantages of beautiful natural landscape, cool climate, rich and diverse cultural identity, friendly and hospitable people, Da Bac district also has over 6,000 hectares of water surface on the Da hydropower plant reservoir which is regarded as "another Ha Long Bay on land". Its geographical location near Hoa Binh city and Hanoi capital makes the district an attractive investment for socio-economic development.

Efforts to restore industrial production pay off

(HBO) - like other economic sectors, Hoa Binh province's industry has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic for a long time. Especially in 2021, a decline in orders worsened by difficulties in input materials, lack of labourers, and the stagnancy of the consumption market sometimes were the main reasons why the industrial production failed to meet the yearly growth target. According to the latest data publicised by the provincial People's Committee, although the value of industrial production last year reached 41.5 trillion VND, a year-on-year increase of 10.2%, the growth rate of the industry decreased by 2.49%, 15.49 percentage points lower than the yearly plan.

New life in Gia Mo commune

(HBO) – From a disadvantaged commune, Gia Mo (Tan Lac district) has been honoured with new-style rural status earlier this year, thanks to concerted efforts made by local Party organisation, administration and people.

Cu Yen commune takes care of people with meritorious services

(HBO) – The Party Committee and administration of Luong Son district’s Cu Yen commune always pay attention to caring for people with meritorious services to the country. The activities to take care of policy beneficiaries, war invalids and martyrs' families are more vibrant during holidays, New Year, or on the occasion of War Invalids and Martyrs' Day (July 27), reflecting the deep gratitude of local officials and people to their sacrifices.

Yen Thuy district mobilises resources of people for new-style rural area building

(HBO) - Recently, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is difficult to arrange capital to carry out the National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building in Yen Thuy district, especially for communes that strive to fulfill criteria of new-style rural areas as well as those who seek recognition as exemplary new-style rural areas. In fact, large investment is needed while the resources of provincial and local budget are still limited, therefore, the mobilisation of capital from the people and other agencies is essential.

Hoa Binh police fruitfully carry out special emulation movement

(HBO) – For about one year of implementation, a special emulation movement among the public security force of communal-level localities in Hoa Binh province has helped strongly improve each police officer’s awareness and performance. It has encouraged the force to maintain a good grasp of the local situation and effectively carry out the "All people safeguard the Fatherland’s security” movement, thereby helping ensure security - order and win people’s support.

Luong Son district has been improving the education quality

(HBO) - In the school year of 2021 - 2022, the appropriate units and schools in Luong Son district are facing many challenges, especially the unprecedented pressures caused by Covid-19 pandemics. However, with the spirit of overcoming difficulties, the whole district has made efforts to implement the synchronous solutions to maintain and improve the quality of education.

Hoa Binh 2022 Children's Forum

(HBO) - The Hoa Binh provincial People's Committee on June 29 organised the 2022 Children's Forum themed "joining hands to protect children - Speak up to prevent and combat child abuse and violence". Attending the event were Nguyen Van Toan, Standing Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee and head of the provincial Steering Committee for Child Protection; Dang Hoa Nam, Director of the Child Protection & Care Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs; Nguyen Thi Bich Lien, Director of ChildFund Australia in Vietnam; and Khong Huong Lan, representative of World Vision in Vietnam, among others.

Hoa Binh accelerates programme to expand scale of rural sanitation, clean water

(HBO) - Hoa Binh is one of the 21 provinces benefiting from the programme on expanding the scale of rural sanitation and clean water based on results of loans from the World Bank (WB) in the 2016-2020 period. The programme has brought about practical results, yet the implementation remains slow.

Speeding up the 40th phase of vaccination and the booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine for the children aged 12-17 years

(HBO) - The Steering Committee for the campaign of Covid-19 vaccination has just issued the Expedited Official Letter No. 1846/CV-BCD on speeding up the 40th phase of vaccination and the booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine (nose 3) for children aged from 12 to 17 years old.

Renewed communication models helps improve population''s quality

(HBO) - Recognising the role of communication in population and family planning programmes, Hoa Binh province's Sub-department of Population and Family Planning has coordinated with agencies and socio-political organisations in carrying out information dissemination models in the new situation, Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong, its director, has said.

My Thanh commune boosts implementation of Gov’t project on electronic population database application

(HBO) – Recently, relevant units of the Hoa Binh provincial Department of Public Security have worked with the police of Lac Son district and My Thanh commune to boost the dissemination and implementation of the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 06/QD-TTg, which approved the project on applying electronic population database, identification, and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the 2022 - 2025 period, with a vision to 2030 (Project 06/CP), in tandem with the "All people protect the Fatherland’s security” movement in My Thanh.

Tu Ly - the innovated countryside

(HBO) - Tu Ly commune (Da Bac) is an area merged between the two communes, Tu Ly and Hao Ly according to Resolution No. 830/NQ-UBTVQH14 of the National Assembly Standing Committee. The beginning stage of the new commune, along with the influence of Covid-19 pandemics has affected the socio-economic development and people's life. However, with the consensus and efforts of both the political system and the people to overcome difficulties, this place is being renewed day by day.

Announcing the results of the entrance exam to grade 10 at Hoang Van Thu High School for the Gifted

(HBO) - In the morning of June 9, the results (phase 1) of the entrance exam to grade 10 at Hoang Van Thu High School for the Gifted in the school year of 2022 - 2023 were announced. Through this exam, Hoang Van Thu school recruited 500 new 10th grade students, which were allotted into 12 specialized classes, 1 non-specialist class in Nature, 1 non-specialized class in Foreign Languages. In 3 days (from 4-6 June), the exams were held in a safe, objective way and in compliance with regulations.

COVID-19 vaccination should be accelerated

(HBO) - The Steering Committee for COVID-19 Vaccination of Hoa Binh province held a meeting on June 9 to deploy the injection of the vaccine in June. Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Toan, who is head of the steering committee, chaired the event.

Spreading the humanitarian “Godmother” program

(HBO) - The "Godmother” program has been implemented to support and nurture the orphaned children due to Covid-19 epidemics launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union with the humanitarian meaning of both easing the pain and becoming a strong destination so that the children can overcome the difficult situations and create conditions for their comprehensive development. The Provincial Women's Union has developed a plan and launched it to all of the cadres and the women members and connected with other organizations and individuals to get the participation and hand joining of the whole society.

Vinh Tien Commune: Diversifying the channels supporting the reduction of sustainable poverty

(HBO) - Besides Kim Duc hamlet and hamlet 168 developing small business and trading services, in Vinh Tien commune (Kim Boi) there are 6 hamlets mainly engaged in agricultural and forestry production, the economic life of many households is still difficult. In 2021, the commune's per capita income reached 33.2 million VND, the poor households according to the multidimensional poverty line in the period of 2016-2021 is 27.9%, and the near-poor households is 10.9%.

Implementing the program “Expanding the scale of the rural clean water and sanitation based on the output” with the loans from the World Bank

(HBO) - In the afternoon of June 3, the Department of Health held a conference to implement the program "Expanding the scale of the rural clean water and sanitation based on the output” with the loans from the World Bank.

High schools ready for entrance exams

(HBO) - High schools in Hoa Binh province are working hard on the preparation for the organisation of the upcoming entrance exams in the 2022-2023 academic year in the locality.

Lac Son strives for sustainable poverty reduction

(HBO) – Lac Son district is striving to reduce its rate of poor households to 20.05 percent by the end of 2022. The rate at the end of 2021 was 24.13 percent.

English-language contest creates useful playground for primary students

(HBO) – A primary-level English-language contest was organised in Hoa Binh province in the 2021 – 2022 academic year, creating a useful playground for local pupils in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.

Another 65,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine allocated to Hoa Binh

(HBO) – According to Decision No. 443/QD-VSDTTU, dated May 16, 2022, on the 146th and 147th phases of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will allocate 307,710 doses of the Comirnaty/Pfizer-BionTech vaccine donated by the Australian Government in the 146th phase, and 6,767,496 doses of this vaccine bought by using the State budget together with 1,179,330 ampoules of solvent to provinces and cities nationwide. Hoa Binh province will be provided with 65,520 vaccine doses and 10,920 solvent ampoules.