Son La province currently has 17 housing projects that have selected investors in accordance with regulations. Among them, 11 meet the requirements for capital mobilisation through the sale, lease-purchase of future-formed housing, or the transfer of land with infrastructure.

Sop Cop commune in the district of the same name held the Xen Muong Festival 2025 from April 15 to 17.

Son La province has ranked 25th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide in the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2024, up 5 places from 2023, with 43.88 points.

A total of 376 new enterprises and subsidiaries were established in the first quarter of 2025, with a registered capital of 901 billion VND (34.83 million USD).

The Veterans' Association of Son La province, in coordination with the provincial Department of Public Security, organised a training conference in Mai Son district on April 16 on crime, drug, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS prevention and control for 140 officials and members of the Veterans' Associations of Mai Son and Yen Chau districts, and Moc Chau township.

The People’s Committee of Moc Chau township launched the 2025 communication campaign on the prevention of child and consanguineous marriages in Chieng Khua commune on April 16.

Nearly five years into the implementation of its elite sports development project for the 2021–2030 period, Son La province has achieved significant progress, enhancing its position on both the national and international sporting maps.

Trang Thi Xuan, member of the provincial Committee’s Standing Board and Standing Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee, on April 13 inspected the progress of eliminating makeshift and dilapidated houses, as well as reviewing additional households registered for support in Van Ho district.

As part of activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 –2025), the People’s Committee of Phu Yen district organised the 2nd Muong Tac running tournament on April 13.

The Son La provincial Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities organised an ethnic costume competition on April 12 evening.

A delegation from Son La province led by Nguyen Dinh Viet, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, and head of the provincial Delegation to the National Assembly, had a working session in Hanoi on April 11 with the Indian Embassy in Vietnam. The delegation was received by Ambassador of India to Vietnam Sandeep Arya.

Defence-Economic Unit 326 under Military Region held a conference in Sop Cop district on April 11 to review the first year of implementing the second phase of the project on enhancing the deployment of young volunteer intellectuals to work in defence-economic zones (Project 174/BQP) for the 2021–2030 period.

On the occasion of Bunpimay, the traditional New Year festival of Laos, and the 64th founding anniversary of the Lao Police Force, a working delegation from the Son La provincial Department of Public Security led by its Director Major General Dang Trong Cuong visited to extend New Year greetings and hold working sessions with the police departments of Laos’ Houaphanh, Oudomxay, and Luang Prabang provinces on April 7-11.

Six organisations and three individuals from Son La province were honoured across various categories at the Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA) Awards 2025 ceremony held on April 10 in Hanoi.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Dang Ngoc Hau, who is head of the Representative Unit of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)’s Son La branch (VBSP Son La), chaired a meeting on April 10 to evaluate the bank’s performance in the first quarter of 2025 and put forth key tasks for the second quarter.

The provincial fund for the poor held a ceremony on April 10 to receive financial support from Xuan Thien Group, based in Ninh Binh province, for a local programme aimed at eliminating substandard housing.

In the first quarter of 2025, farmers in the communes of Van Ho district cultivated 700 hectares of spring rice, 901 hectares of various vegetables, and over 960 hectares of biomass corn.