Labor achievements plus attention from leaders and companies are a great encouragement for immigrant workers. Hoang Thi Huong, a worker of Binh Duong Garment Company, said “On Tet holiday, Binh Duong Garment Company holds a year-end party for workers and rents coaches to take immigrant workers to their hometowns”.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and the Committee for Foreign NGO Affairs on Jan. 21 jointly held a New Year meeting with representatives of diplomatic corps, international and non-governmental organisations in Vietnam.

 A photo exhibition to mark the 81st anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s (CPV) foundation (February 3), and to celebrate the 11th Party Congress and Lunar New Year was held in Gia Lai Museum on January 21.

In 2010, provincial Cultural House for Children actively mobilized organizations and individuals to make contributions to provincial Study Promotion Fund. This fund offered help to disadvantaged children with total money of VND35mln.

The organization board of the HCM city Spring Newspaper Festival 2011, on Jan.21, gave marks to participating booths.

Early Jan.21, provincial Businesswomen’s Club donated two compassion houses worth VND20mln each to two poor women, including Ha Thi The Hai in TDM town’s Phu Loi ward and Truong Thi Phuong in Tan Uyen district’s Thanh Phuoc commune.

Early Jan.21, provincial Red Cross Society and its Volunteers’Club jointly visited and presented 199 Tet gifts worth between VND400,000 and VND420,000 each to the blind in Di An and Thuan An districts.

The whole province is now home to 15,000 poor households under the new poverty line. On these days, sector, mass organizations, businesses, charity organizations and people in the province have made a lot of substantial activities taking care of the poor during the 2011 Tet holiday.

The image of the Ao dai (Vietnam’s traditional long dress) is often associated with images of the country and is a beautiful symbol of Vietnamese culture.

*Binh Duong Forestry Products & General Import-Export Corporation (Genimex) yesterday visited and presented 79 Tet gifts worth VND500,000 each to those living at the Binh Duong Center for the Lonely Elderly. This is the annual activity of the corporation to contribute to bringing the elderly at the center a cozy Tet.

Early Jan.20, Binh Duong province’s Department of Health and the Border Post 809 jointly provided free medical checks-up and donated 200 gifts to poor children and Khmer ethnic people in Loc Ninh district’s Loc Thinh commune in the southern province of Binh Phuoc (photo). The total cost of these gifts was worth more than VND40mln, funded by Binh Duong’s donors and health staff.

Demand on food for Tet holiday is very high. This is a good chance for fake and poor quality products, so customers should select food products carefully.

 Ben Cat Youth Union just granted a charity house to Nguyen Minh Luan, a poor unionist in Ben Cat district’s Long Nguyen commune.

Representatives of Phuoc An pagoda, TDM town’s Buddhist Sangha and Phu Loi ward’s Fatherland Front Committee yesterday visited and presented Tet gifts worth more than VND50mln to 200 poor households in TDM town’s Phu Loi and Phu Hoa wards.

Early Jan.18, Dau Tieng district’s Red Cross Society forwarded a conference to sum up its activities in 2010 and honor golden hearts for their contributions to the poor.