A workshop on population and family planning activities was just held by General Office for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP). On the agenda at the workshop were issues of improving propaganda agents and coordinators as well as new approaches.

During the local industrialization and modernization, industrial parks (IPs) have contributed to economic development, job placement, income improvement and increase on living quality, especially effective settlement of environmental pollution.

Over the past years, Di An district’s Women’s Union and many other mass organizations organized a lot of support activities and programs for poor women, helping them rise up…

Industrial parks (IPs) under provincial IPs Management Board have so far absorbed 4,294 foreign employees, up 18.2% compared to the corresponding period of last year. Among them, there are now 3,820 experts, up 29% against last year’s same period.

*Thuan An receives over VND338bln as relief aid

The provincial department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday reported results of implementing an environmental protection for the 2007-2010 period and set out schedule for the 2011-2015 period.

  Statue of Ngo Bao Chau in Tinh Bang Huu coffee shop.People are taken by surprise those days in Tinh Bang Huu coffee shop to witness a statue of Professor Ngo Bao Chau with one hand holding his eye glasses and the other holding books. The 3-m high copper-like plastic statue represents spirit of Vietnamese people.

Phu Giao district’s Steering Board for Humanitarian Blood Donation has just joined hands with Cho Ray Hospital’s Center for Hematology and Blood Transfusion to organize the 4th humanitarian blood donation campaign of 2010 with 39,200 ml of blood given by 112 participants. All the blood will be brought to Cho Ray Hospital’s Center for Hematology and Blood Transfusion to preserve and provide for cases in need of blood.

Over 80 musicians from ten ASEAN member countries will join the first-ever ASEAN symphony orchestra to perform in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in celebration of the forthcoming 17th ASEAN Summit in Vietnam.

 Hanoi is leading the country on the number of social buildings and houses for low-income people. As planned, by 2015, Hanoi will build 15,500 flats for low-income people (roughly 1.1-1.5 million square meters of floor space).

Tan Uyen district Women Union just launched the mobilization of building charity house for poor women. Accordingly, the union’s affiliates will cooperate with mass bodies to mobilize businesses, donors to engage in the campaign. Money from collections will be used to build, repair charity houses for local poor women.

Binh Duong Club for Female Entrepreneurs just paid visit to Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang to grant 2 charity houses to Lam Van Ut and Le Thi Tu in Tran De district. Ut and Tu are the poor elderly people in the province. Each house worth VND22mil is funded by members of the club.

*Over 6,000 gifts as relief aid sent to flood-hit people in central region

Late Oct.25, representative of Midea Co.Ltd. in the VSIP I came to provincial Fatherland Front Committee (FFC) to provide more than VND13.3mln as relief aid to flood-hit people in the central region.

On Oct.23-24, the provincial department of Trade and Industry held a market-day of bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas at Tan Uyen district’s Tan Dinh commune’s stadium. The market-day lured 27 businesses displaying numerous goods with a 5-30% discount. According to the organizing board, the market-day attracted more than 10,000 participants.