The provincial Youth Union on November 23 organised a training conference on start-up knowledge and skills for ethnic minority students in 2025, drawing 100 students from Tay Bac University and Son La College.

The provincial Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs on November 18-19 organised a conference to disseminate legal information and raise awareness about the harmful effects of child marriage and consanguineous marriage in 2025.

On the occasion of Vietnamese Teachers’ Day (November 20), the Party Committee, People’s Council, and People’s Committee of To Hieu ward on November 19 organised five working delegations to visit and present gifts to 14 public and private educational institutions in the locality.

To create sustainable employment for workers, Muong La commune has linked vocational training with job creation, proactively partnering with enterprises to organise job fairs, connect labour markets, and support labour export.

The police division of fire prevention and control and rescue under the provincial Department of Public Security on November 17 provided training for 200 members assigned to fire safety and rescue duties from the wards of To Hieu, Chieng An, Chieng Coi and Chieng Sinh.

The Ta Khoa commune People’s Committee held the first job fair and career counseling event 2025 on November 16.

Efforts to implement the Socio-Economic Development Programme for Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2025 period (Programme 1719) in Ta Hoc commune have paid off, with various concrete roads, cultural houses and bridges built, the local economy growing, and people’s material and spiritual lives improving.

The Youth Affairs Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, in coordination with the provincial Youth Union and TikTok Shop, on November 11 organised a training conference to strengthen digital skills for selling rural youth in promoting OCOP (One Commune Once Product) products.

Implementing environmental criteria, localities across Son La province have made significant efforts to adopt various solutions to improve and maintain environmental quality indicators, contributing to keeping rural landscapes clean and beautiful.

The Tay Bac (Northwest) University on November 8 organised a national scientific conference themed “The Northwestern Region – Interdisciplinary Approaches.” The event was attended by leaders of provincial departments and sectors, as well as representatives from universities and colleges across the country.

The provincial Youth Union on November 8 coordinated with Vinschool Ocean Park Primary School and other sponsors to inaugurate the “Beautiful School for Children” project at the Tham hamlet primary school site of the Chieng Ve Primary and Secondary School in Chieng Mai commune.

The youth union of the force development division under the provincial Department of Public Security, in coordination with Thao Nguyen ward police, the youth’s and women’s boards of the department, and sponsors, held a programme to present computers to Lang Chieu Secondary School in Ta Xua commune on November 7.

The People’s Procuracy of Region I, in coordination with the To Hieu Secondary School in Chieng Coi ward, November 6 organised a 2025 anti-drug awareness programme, attracting the participation of 750 students. The event was part of a series of activities in response to Vietnam Law Day (November 9).

VBIC Son La Joint Stock Company held a ceremony in Kham hamlet, Chieng Coi ward on November 5 to inaugurate the first phase of the Mong Hamlet – Son La Water Plant.

Son La Newspaper and Radio-Television, in coordination with VTC Mobile Services JSC and the Yulgang Origin VTC – Hiep Khach PC gaming community, inaugurated a rural road in Huoi Han hamlet, Bo Sinh commune on November 2. The ceremony was attended by local officials, benefactors, and a large number of local residents.

The Son La High School for the Gifted recently handed over a new house to the family of Tong Thi Huong in Bo hamlet, Chieng Mung commune, Son La province. Huong’s family is a poor household in extremely difficult circumstances, and she has suffered from a mobility disability for many years.

A survey team from the National Council for Education and Human Resources Development under the Ministry of Education and Training on October 31 held a working session with the Son La provincial Steering Committee for Building a Learning Society to review the implementation of learning society development in the context of the two-tier local administration system.

With the spirit of “mutual support and solidarity,” the “Jar of Loving Rice” model initiated by the provincial Women’s Unions at all levels has spread widely, bringing encouragement and sharing to poor women and families in difficult circumstances, and contributing to social welfare in Son La province.

The Youth Union and Women’s Union of the Son La provincial Department of Public Security, in coordination with sponsoring units, on October 30 handed over the “IT Room for Children” to underprivileged children under the care and support of the department in accordance with Project 1390.

The provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with the provincial Department of Education and Training and the People’s Committee of Song Ma commune, on October 28 organised a communication programme on family moral and lifestyle education for nearly 2,000 teachers and students of Song Ma High School.