The forestry sector will continue the project to plant 5 million ha of trees to improve the quality and value of forests and increase the country’s forest coverage to 42 percent by 2015, said Ha Cong Tuan, Deputy Director General of the General Forestry Office.

People give best wishes to one another in the New Year. Besides modern greetings, they still like traditional well-wishes.

 Agriculture always plays an important role in Vietnam’s national economy. All Kings of the past dynasties attached great importance to promoting agricultural production.

 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sent an open letter to the local Vietnamese community, wishing them happiness, the best of health and wealth in the Year of the Cat.

 Nguyen Hue flower road to mark the Lunar New Year Festival will be open to the public from 28 December- 4 January of the lunar calendar.

 The Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese People Association in Russia hosted a music programme to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on Jan. 29.

 Over 100 Vietnamese book titles which have been translated into the English language are being displayed at the 35th International Book Fair, opened in Kolkata, West Bengal state, India on Jan. 29.

 A lotus festival was held in Hanoi on January 29 to honour the beauty and meaning of lotus, which currently tops the voting list announced by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnamese products are conquering domestic customers with their high quality, good designs and reasonable prices.  The traditional Lunar New Year is coming soon and commercial centres, supermarkets and shops are full of et essentials. Of these Vietnamese products account for 85-90 percent.

Binh Duong province’s authority has attracted talented people from around the nation by its favorable policies and human resources training projects paid by State’s budget.

 This Tet, Binh Duong has 4,377 households free from poverty, which is seen as a good sign so that Binh Duong continues to enter a new spring full of prosperity and happiness…

Everyone is busy to prepare for the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival while Binh Duong Urban Work One-Member Co.Ltd’s sanitation workers are hurrying to tidy up streets…

A delegation of officials from Binh Duong province’s military and civil administration and party visited and extended Tet greetings to the Border Guard High Command of Binh Phuoc province and the Loc An Border Post in Loc Ninh district’s Loc An commune.

Early Jan.26, provincial Red Cross Society and its Volunteers’Club visited and presented 461 Tet gifts to the Moi Nuoc Social Support Center, provincial General Hospital, provincial Center for the Disabled and Orphans and provincial Center for the Lonely Elderly. The total cost of these gifts was more than VND100mln, funded by Asia Commercial Bank’s Binh Duong Branch.