The same day, provincial Support Association for the Disabled, Orphans and Poor Patients also donated 100 Tet gifts to children with difficult circumstance in Minh Hoa and Minh Tan communes.

This was part of the 5th provincial “Spring with advantaged children” program Under the program, 1,520 Tet gifts will be given for disadvantaged children across the province…

Tran Thi Kieu Tho, the owner of the boarding house sub-society, said “the sub-society now has 115 rooms with nearly 400 workers. We in cooperation with local authority will hold a year end party for lodgers before they come back their homeland for Tet. And, every lodger will receive a gift package including cake, sugar, milk worth over VND100,000. Those whose staying for Tet away from home will enjoy a year end party in the evening of lunar Dec. 30 with traditional dishes. We hope that workers here would enjoy a warm Tet in this year”.

Co.opMart Binh Duong and the People’s Committee of Phu An commune in Ben Cat district jointly donated 40 Tet gifts worth VND240,000 each, including sugar, seasoning powder, confectionary, instant noodle, cooking oil, soya-sauce…, to needy households.

The joyful market day drew the participation of many prestigious businesses and distributors in and out of the province, including Co.opMart Binh Duong, Kim Hoang Anh Co.Ltd., Hanh Danh Co.Ltd., Mai Thi One-Member Co.Ltd., Long Thuan Co.Ltd., Trung Thao Co.Ltd., Trung Thao Co., Thanh Le General Import Export Trading Corp., Minh Long Hung Co.Ltd.,…, with a total value of commodities for sale amounting to more than VND5bln.

VCCI President Vu Tien Loc stressed that the Business Startup Festival has helped promote creativity and arouse passion for business among young people in order to build a socially responsible and highly competitive business community. “To meet the target of developing Vietnam into an industrial nation by 2020, we need more new entrepreneurs, and we have high hopes for university graduates who will have the chance to become successful entrepreneurs in the future,” said Loc.

The bridge was invested by the provincial People’s Committee and built in June, 2009 with the total investment capital of over VND32bil. The bridge crossing over Be River has a length of 165.95m and width of 7m.

Although getting involved in many different fields, they have the same goal of contributing to protecting the environment towards sustainable development.

Eighty poets from 27 countries are expected to join 40 Vietnamese colleagues to take part in the first Asia-Pacific poetry festival in the northern province of Quang Ninh from February 1-3.

In addition to recreational areas, tourist sites invested by businesses, provincial sectors and departments will organize many amusing places for all people during the 2012 Tet (lunar New Year) holiday.

Titan Mart in Ben Cat district’s My Phuoc township, in collaboration with the local government, presented 200 Tet gifts worth VND150,000 each, including rice, instant noodle, cooking oil, seasoning powder, sugar…, to poor people.

The center is built at Tan My hamlet, Thai Hoa township, Tan Uyen district on an area of over 20,000sqm with the total value of over VND13.952bil. The work includes items of hall, football, volleyball and badminton grounds, outdoor stage, park and so on. The work will complete within 360days.

Vietnam’s water puppeteers will give 40 shows in 10 cities of France from Jan. 15 to March 21, 2012, said Deputy Director of the Vietnam Water Puppet Theatre Nguyen Tien Dung.

The year 2012 is seen as a favorable period for the province to continue effectively implementing the Project of “Raising legal awareness among youth”… Delivery of leaflets on law dissemination for youth

With the projects of “Volunteer youth take part in environmental protection”, provincial Volunteer Youth Squad for Environmental Protection will join hands with relevant agencies and the community to protect the environment and monitor the effectiveness of environmental protection activities. Youth have a chance to take part in environmental protection