Deputy Minister of Ethnic and Religious Affairs Nong Thi Ha on May 16 visited and presented gifts to poor families in Mai Son district that have benefited from the substandard housing elimination programme.

The provincial steering committee for the elimination of makeshift and dilapidated houses held a conference to review work on May 15. The event was chaired by Hoang Quoc Khanh, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and head of the steering committee.

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, on May 17 led a working delegation to inspect the implementation of the project on stabilising people’s lives and developing the socio-economic conditions of the resettlement areas for the Son La Hydropower Project for the period 2026-2030 (Project 666) in Thuan Chau district.

The Quynh Nhai district Party Committee on May 14 held a ceremony to award and posthumously award 65-year and 60-year Party membership badges to veteran Party members on the threshold of President Ho Chi Minh’s 135th birth anniversary (May 19).

Nguyen Dinh Viet, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee on May 13 inspected the implementation of Scheme 666 on stabilising the population and developing the socio-economic conditions of the resettlement areas for the Son La Hydropower Project for the period 2026-2030, in Tan Yen commune, Moc Chau township.

Vice Chairman of the Son La provincial People’s Committee Dang Ngoc Hau on May 12 chaired a meeting to review efforts to send local workers abroad under labour contracts for 2025.

The Youth Union and the Vietnam Youth Federation of Son La province on May 10 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the "Happy Home" project for Vu Linh Chi, a student living in Residential Area 3, Chieng Sinh ward, Son La city.

A delegation from Laos’ Luang Prabang province led by Bunluom Manivong, member of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Vice Governor, and Chairman of the provincial Border Committee, paid a courtesy visit to the Standing Board of the Son La provincial Party Committee on May 9.

The provincial People's Committee held a conference on May 9 to award its chairman’s certificates of merit to collectives and individuals of Son La province, and Laos’ Houaphanh and Luang Prabang provinces for their outstanding contributions to Vietnam - Laos border work.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Le Hong Minh on May 9 inspected the preparations for the inauguration of the Van Ho district General Hospital.

The Son La city Association of Former Youth Volunteers held a ceremony on May 9 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Traditional Day of the Vietnamese Youth Volunteer Force (July 15, 1950 – 2025) and the 135th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 – 2025).

Mai Son district held a conference on May 8 to summarise the work of eliminating makeshift and substandard houses in the locality.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Dang Ngoc Hau on May 6 worked with several departments, sectors and units involved in sending Son La residents to work abroad under contracts in 2025.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Le Hong Minh, who is head of the provincial Steering Committee for the 2025 High School Graduation Exam, chaired an online meeting of the steering committee on May 6.

The Muong La district Party Committee on May 6 held a conference to summarise 10 years of implementing Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo on promoting the study and following of President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style, as well as to review a 79-day emulation campaign entitled “Joining Hands to Eliminate Makeshift and Dilapidated Houses.”

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Hong Minh, who is also deputy head of the steering committee for the construction of the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway’s section in Son La, chaired the committee’s meeting on May 6.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Cong on May 6 held a working session with Moc Chau Dairy Cattle Breeding JSC to discuss cooperation in milk production and product sale.

Thuan Chau district held a conference on May 5 to summarise the elimination of temporary and dilapidated housing.

Trang Thi Xuan, member of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board and Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a conference on May 5 to listen to a report on the preparation for the 2025 expanded border work meeting between Son La province and Houaphanh and Luang Prabang provinces of Laos.

Today, April 30, 2025, marks half a century since the Liberation of the South and National Reunification - a brilliant milestone in the history of the Vietnamese nation. That great victory was not only the result of the indomitable will, passionate patriotism, and the strength of great national unity, but also from the decisive action mindset, mettle, and intelligence of the Party.