The Lunar New Year Festival will enable overseas Vietnamese in France, especially their second and third generations to learn more about Vietnamese culture, said President of Vietnamese Residents’ Association in France Therese Nguyen Van Ky.

The Dau Mot town market watch team just launched mass inspections on prices, food safety and hygiene on Tet. The delegation checked and took samples of products at more than 100 shops in Thu Dau Mot market. As a result, the delegation fined 2 cases violating listing of prices and 70 others violating regulations of food safety and hygiene.

On the upcoming Tet 2011, Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV)’s Binh Duong branch paid a gift visit to heroic mothers Tran Thi Dep, 96, in Tan Uyen district’s Thuong Tan commune, heroic mother Le Thi Dieu, 86, in Tan Uyen’s Tan My commune and poor households in Phu Giao district’s An Long and Tan Long communes, Tan Uyen’s Uyen Hung township and town’s Phu Hoa ward and as well as HIV-infected children in Thuan An district.

Food poisoning is one of reasons of many deaths at developing countries. Food poisoning often occurs suddenly right after eating harmful substances. Meanwhile, customers often restore many foods, causing staleness, use poor quality foods… These are reasons causing food poisoning.

In the coming Tết, husband and wife of Mr. Nguyen Hoang Sang and Mrs. On Thi Lap are joyful to receive a charity house offered by fund of Thanh Phuoc Commune’s Women Association after one month of fire incident.

Over 600 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) flocked to a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on January 22 in celebration of the Year of the Cat.

Khieu Thi Huyen Trang, coming from the northern province of Bac Giang, won the championship title of Vietnam’s Next Top Model contest in its final round held at InterContinental Asiana Saigon hotel, Ho Chi Minh City on January 23.

In recent years, more and more foreigners have traveled to Vietnam for working and learning. Despite having different nationalities, many foreigners have seen Vietnam as their second homeland. For them, Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival features Vietnamese cultural identities and they are also very eager to welcome it…

 Nam Kim Steel Joint Stock Company (Nakisco), on Jan.22, held a year-end party with many attractive entertainment activities, luring the participation of more than 240 staff and crowds of clients in Thuan An district-based An Thanh production compound.

The representative board of TDM town’s Chinese community has just visited and presented 85 Tet gifts worth nearly VND30mln to 85 needy households in TDM town’s Chanh Nghia ward. Prior to that, this representative board also sent Tet gifts worth VND30mln to provincial Red Cross Society to donate them to the poor.

 On behalf of provincial leaders, provincial People’s Committee Vice-Chairman cum Chairman of provincial Sponsoring Association Huynh Van Nhi was grateful to golden hearts for their help and attention to patients with heart disease and disadvantaged children…

This statement was concluded by inspection delegation of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources at a meeting with the local People’s Committee. According to the inspection delegation of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Binh Duong now has 24 industrial parks under operation with the total industrial waste water of about 49,000m3 per day.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Canada hosted a Tet-get together for overseas Vietnamese on January 22.

Binh Duong has lured countless immigrant laborers, so demand on transport means on Tet is very high. The local transport sector is ready to cater for transport of people on Tet 2011.

The provincial sponsor Council of Fund for children on Jan. 21 held a 4th “Spring for poor children” program 2011 with the attendance of the provincial party committee secretary Mai The Trung, local People’s Committee chairman Le Thanh Cung and mass bodies and over 400 poor children.