Phu Giao district steering board of humanitarian blood donation in cooperation with Cho Ray Hospital’s Blood transfusion and haematology center and leaders of Infantry Regiment 271 held the first humanitarian blood donation 2011 on Feb. 14. Attending the blood donation were 237 officials and soldiers who donated 82,950ml of blood in total. The donated blood will be given to the Blood Transfusion and Haematology Center.

Becamex IDC will hold a special music show with the performance of famous singers of Dam Vinh Hung, Minh Chuyen… at Binh Duong New City on Feb. 16. Besides, a unicorn dance program will be organized at the same place on Feb. 11-17 evenings. These programs held at Binh Duong New City aim at catering for community on Lunar New Year 2011.

Binh Duong provincial Youth Union in cooperation with HCMC’s Thu Duc district youth union held a meeting to set out plans on highway nail crime control on Feb. 14 at bordering localities between Binh Duong and Thu Duc district. At the meeting, members of highway nail crime control teams mapped out solutions of strengthening nail crime control on National Highway No.1.

Lady Temple festival annually attracts a large number of tourists everywhere. Therefore, work of order and security is always paid attention. Nguyen Ngoc Dung, vice chairman of Thu Dau Mot town People’s Committee cum vice head of 2011 Lady Temple festival steering board, said the work of order and security is strengthened in this year.

The number of customers flocking to stores to buy fresh flowers, cuddly toys, jewelry and chocolates as gifts for their Valentines has increased sharply.

A Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman finally got married and it was the happy ending of a 31-year love story.

With diversified models and attractive displays, shopping centres are catching customers’ eyes for Valentine’s Day (February 14), the most anticipated day of the year for happy couples.

This year Valentine’s Day falls on Monday, the first day of next week. However, young people spent time on going to souvenir, flower and chocolate shops to buy special gifts for their lovers days ago, pushing up prices of gifts.

Born in 1978, Vo Thanh Vinh, who now resides at No.24/53, hamlet 3, Tuong Binh Hiep, TDM town, has suffered from a strange disease for 10 years.

During the 2011 Tet festival, TDM town’s Labor Union visited and presented 400 gifts worth VND300,000 each, including confectionary, sugar, seasoning powder, cooking oil…, to workers who could not return home for Tet. The total expense of these gifts was VND120mln, funded by TDM town’s Labor Union and extracted from TDM town’s State budget.

Leaders of Ben Cat district’s An Dien commune and Mrs.Phan Ngoc Chu, the owner of a real estate enterprise last Tet handed over a unity house to Lam Van Danh, a poor resident in Kiem Dien hamlet.

The Government on Feb. 11 issued a resolution to establish an embassy and two consulates general abroad.

Thailand-Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition has opened at the National Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on February 11 issued a dispatch asking ministries, agencies and localities to continue taking comprehensive measures to stabilise the macro economy, curb inflation, speed up production and investment as well as ensure social security after the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The organization of activities taking care of young workers’ spiritual and material lives during Tet is still always a concern of sectors and mass organizations in the province…