*Over 300 people register to donate blood

The appraisal ceremony in 2011 will be held on the 121st anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday as a part of program “lighting up youth dreams in Binh Duong” to widespread to younger generations.

The project of “Consultancy and Supporting Office for Youth Development” effective from January 1st is meaningful in bridging up the needs of living places, extra jobs, weekend recreation, social skill practice, etc. among young workers and students in Binh Duong.

Early April 6, provincial Steering Board for Voluntary Blood Donation cooperated with TDM town’s Steering for Voluntary Blood Donation, Binh Duong Co.op Mart Binh Duong and the HCM city-based Cho Ray Hospital’s Center for Blood Transfusion-Hematology to organize a blood donation program in response to the Whole People’s Voluntary Blood Donation Day (April 7).

On April 6, State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan and her entourage visited the historic relic complex of Den Hung (Hung Temple) in Phu Tho province to mark the death anniversary of Hung Kings and the Hung Temple Festival 2011.

The provincial People’s Committee yesterday held a summing up conference on the rural traffic and urban rejuvenation movement 2010 and launched task for 2011. Accordingly, the entire province in the past year conducted 677 works of rural traffic and urban rejuvenation, winning 111% from 2009 with the total expense of VND326.7bil. Most of districts and townships in the province exceeded the set goals.

The Yen Thanh dictrict People’s Committee on April 5 received VND1.2 billion in aid from businesses and individuals to help families of landslide victims.

Voluntary blood donation is a very significant movement. Over the years, Binh Duong University students have positively engaged in voluntary movements for the community. Of these, voluntary blood donation has lured countless students.

The provincial People’s Committee vice chairman Tran Thanh Liem yesterday chaired a meeting to hear Housing and Urban Development Group (HUD)’s report on the progress of Chanh My eco-urban area project located at Thu Dau Mot town’s Chanh My ward.

Morning of April, Provincial Army HQ and working group of Ministry of Defense have co-organized a conference on test trying administrative reforms in field of military service and recruitment. The reforms will include simplification of administrative procedures under Decree No. 51 of the government. The test try will reform 7 out 17 steps of administrative procedures. Those are the steps that influence registration and management of recruiting candidates.

In the first quarter of 2011, over 5,559 establishments in the province have been inspected and 33.81% of them have violated the law. Thus, food safety and sanitation authority and district healthcare centers have made warnings to 1,716 establishments and punished 31 others at the cost of VND 69,750,000.

Binh Duong Daily’s Party Committee, on April 4, called for all staffs to give at least one day salary to support victims of the Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. The sum of money raised will be quickly sent to provincial Red Cross Society.

The Ministry of Education and Training with Honda Vietnam Company, officially launched the fourth contest, “Children’s Idea”, for Vietnamese primary school children nationwide.

Top South Korean boy band Super Junior will perform at Go Dau stadium in the southern province of Binh Duong on May 7.

Since early this year, provincial Oriental Medicine Associations at all levels provided examination and treatment by oriental medicine for 98,250 patients, a year-on-year increase of 5%. They also provided 12,320 recipes free of charge to poor patients with a total expense of more than VND120mln.