HBO – Over the past time, Luong Son district in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has stepped up agricultural restructuring in combination with new rural area building.

Traditional medicine helps with public health care in Ky Son district

HBO - Nine of the 11 communes and townships in Ky Son district, Hoa Binh province, have traditional medicine associations, accounting for 89 percent. Total members number 187, an increase of 74 people over 2013. Traditional medical practices have significantly contributed to public health care in the locality.

joining hands to build a happy family

HBO - Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 2589/QD-TTg signed on December 26, 2013, approving the Scheme on "Organizing activities on the International Day of Happiness, March 20," the Provincial Steering Committee for Family Affairs instructed its members to organize activities to respond to the International Day of Happiness. With the theme of "Love and Sharing", the International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2019 was launched throughout the province with a lot of attractive and humanistic activities.

Over 87 percent of public employees in Hoa Binh obtain computer certificates from Level A

HBO - According to statistics, the province now has 87.2 percent of its public officials and employees owning a computer skill proficiency certificate from Level A and above; 22.3 and 1.9 percent passing Level 2 (A2) and Level 3 (B1) of the foreign language skill proficiency, respectively.

Pu Bin commune strictly manages and protects the forests

HBO - There are 1,550 hectares of forest in Pu Bin commune. The protection forest accounts for the most areas of the forests and they have been assigned to five villages for the management and protection.

Outstanding balance of credit programme supporting needy households exceeds 917 billion VND

HBO - The credit programme targeting needy households under Decree 78/2002/ND-CP is among major credit programmes and accounts for the biggest proportion of the Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)’s credit structure.

Tu Ne commune – spotlight in population work

HBO – The work of pre-marriage reproductive health care for youths and juveniles has been paid due attention in Tu Ne commune (Tan Lac district), with no child marriages and near-blood ones recorded. Tu Ne commune has gradually curbed the sex imbalance at birth. In 2018, a total of 49 babies were born, including 24 boys and 25 girls. With such outcome, Tu Ne took the lead and became a spotlight of Tan Lac district in the population work.

Women in Hop Thinh commune join hands to build new-style rural areas

HBO - Over the past years, the women’s union in Hop Thinh commune, Ky Son district, Hoa Binh province, has actively implemented labour production emulations and built new-style rural areas.

Ky Son district calls for contributions from mass to national security

HBO – According to the People’s Committee of Ky Son district, the campaign mobilising all people to safeguard national security in the district recorded positive results in 2018, in close association with other campaigns launched in the locality, thereby maintaining political security, social order and safety and facilitating the district’s political tasks.

Meeting the good examples of the typical women

HBO - Implementing the movement of patriotic emulation, Hoa Binh women always try their best to rise up and appear many typical examples in different fields. The women have inspired, spread and motivated the younger generation and they have become the core force of the local women's movement.

Hoa Binh expands tree planting movement

HBO – National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan launched a tree planting festival in Hoa Binh province on the occasion of the lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Trung Thanh commune moves toward sustainable poverty reduction

(HBO) - Trung Thanh commune in Da Bac district has maintained 97.9 ha cultivated with two rice crops a year, 160 ha under maize and 80 ha of cassava in accordance with plans. The local animal husbandry also expanded to 16,000 cattle and poultry heads, and 2.2 ha of aquaculture. Meanwhile, the Shan Tuyet tea is considered a key product to help sustainably reduce poverty in the locality. Currently, the Shan Tuyet tea trees are grown on 70 ha of land in Bua, Thuong, and Bay hamlets, of which trees on 40 ha can be harvested.

Coordination between three forces for forest fire prevention and fighting in Hoa Binh city

(HBO) - Over the past years, the coordination between three forces – forest rangers, police, the military – in forest protection and forest fire prevention and fighting in Hoa Binh city has proved effective.

Mobile exhibition calls for safety for women, children

The UN Women in Vietnam, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum launched a mobile exhibition themed "The safe journey” on March 6 to raise public awareness of ensuring safety for women and children.

Hoa Binh province promotes families’ role in ensuring security

(HBO) – The "self-managed family” model has helped Hoa Binh province ensure security and social order at grassroots level.

Hoa Binh works to prevent measles

(HBO) – Measles cases have been reported in Hoa Binh province.

Program 135 proves effective in Giap Dat commune

(HBO) - Giap Dat is a heavily disadvantaged commune in Da Bac district. It houses eight hamlets and 501 households of four ethnic groups. The Tay and Dao ethnic groups account for 81.5 percent and 15.6 percent of the commune’s total population, respectively. Local people mainly depend on agricultural production, which has been facing various difficulties; hence the high rate of poor households. By the end of 2018, the rate was 46.67 percent.

Hoa Binh city holds handwriting contest at primary school level

(HBO) – The Office of Education and Training of Hoa Binh city has organised a handwriting contest at Le Van Tam Elementary School for the 2018-2019 academic

Problem arises from merging schools in Luong Son district

(HBO) - Luong Son is now the only locality in the province to merge all of its secondary and high schools. Thereby, the number of its schools has decreased from 70 to 43.

The imprint of the "Volunteering Spring"

(HBO) - It has become a routine, every spring holiday comes, the different levels of the Provincial Communist Youth Union are busy with the program "Volunteering Spring".

Dich Giao commune’s Party Committee works hard to improve income for locals

(HBO) - Secretary of the Party Committee of Dich Giao commune, Tan Lac district, Bui Thi Khuyen said the locality has set a target to lift per capita income in the locality to 45 million VND/year.

Residents in Pa Co commune join hands in new-style rural area building

(HBO) – Every Saturday morning, Phang A Song and his wife join other residents in Pa Co Con hamlet of Pa Co commune, Mai Chau district, in cleaning up the local environment and dredging ditches along roads.

Da Bac health center looks to satisfy locals

(HBĐT) - In recent years, Da Bac District Health Center has spared no efforts to overcome difficulties and implement solutions to improve its personnel’s professional skills, and increase investment in better medical equipment and infrastructure.

The ssolution to eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty from preferential capital

(HBO) - Recently, the province has implemented many policies to care for poor households and policy beneficiaries. In particular, the preferential credit channel of the Government is considered an important and effective solution to implement the goal of hunger eradication and poverty alleviation and new rural construction in the area.

Hoa Binh province handles “black credit” activities

(HBO) – There are 1,153 business establishments subject to security and order conditions in Hoa Binh province. Of them, 106 establishments are pawnshop and 128 others are car and bike-rental service providers and financial consultants that pose potential risks of social disorder and legal violations.