In addition, businesses paid a meeting to local small traders and retails. This was a significant activity to help rural people approach a wide range of commodities in the year-end.

Maintaining security at 60 communes in rural areas accounting for 70% of land area and 60% of provincial population, Binh Duong Provincial Public Security stays focus on developing its communal force.

Association of sponsorship for invalid people, orphans and poor patients in coordination with departments and agencies organized a meeting to mark event on December 03.

Que Huong Humanitarian Center will mark its 10th anniversary on Dec. 10 ahead. Over years, numerous orphans and unlucky people have enjoyed assistance from the center.

 Meantime, the delegates have offered 300 gift packages to oversea Vietnamese in difficulties living in Svayrieng Province of Cambodia at the cost of VND 90 million.

The event will draw the participation of a variety of hotels and restaurants in the capital to showcase their traditional and modern culinary arts.

This year’s conference, themed "Our World: Your Move – For Humanity", was focused on strengthening legal protection for victims of armed conflicts, enforcing disaster laws, volunteering in emergencies and addressing barriers to health care.

An agreement to this effect was signed in Hanoi on December 1 between representatives of the AFD and the Ministry of Finance.

Charity hearts

Aside from cultural activities and movements such as “Full-moon festive night”, “Day for children”, “Action month for children” and so on attracted participation of thousands of children.

Notably, youth unions at all levels have completed 6 green Sundays to make rural roads, clean canals and rivers, collect garbage and plant over 20,000 green trees and so on.

With efforts from the national Committee for AIDS, Narcotics and Prostitution Prevention and Fighting, along with sectors and international organizations Binh Duong has launched many preventive programs on AIDS, narcotics and prostitution with many significant results. However, the local infection on HIV remains complicated. As of Sept. 30, 2011 the locality had 1,649 people living with HIV. As many as 2,372 people died of the disease.

Earlier, the provincial Fatherland Front Committee also donated VND300mil to flood victims in Nga Bay town of the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang.