Transformation of environment protection in terms of awareness and practice is promoted by Decree No. 41-NQ/TW of the Politburo.

As of Sept.8, Di An district was the first locality in the province with no new outbreaks of blue-pig disease over the past 21 days, according to Truong Van Duc, head of provincial Veterinary Department. The remaining districts also saw reduction of the disease, except Dau Tieng district.

Currently in the province, there are 5 mass producers and 3 other smaller workshops that are producing moon cakes. Standard and conditions of production and business of those establishments are announced; however, inspection teams will be set up to check for quality, labels, micro-bacteria, etc. to avoid health effects on consumers.

Phu Giao Farmer Association has just joined Center for Scientific and Technology Application under Binh Duong province’s Department of Science and Technology in organizing training course of landfill biogas construction and usage.

The provincial Bureau of Market Control yesterday destroyed over 16,000 counterfeit cigarette packets that were seized by local functional agencies from between Feb. and Aug, 2010.

Vietnam-Binh Duong Ceramics Festival wrapped up on Sept. 8 evening after 7 days of activities with many plentiful programs. The festival lured about 400,000 visitors seeing products of 22 craft villages nationwide. The contest on Vietnamese ceramics attracted 48 works from 38 ceramic villages and businesses. As a result, there were 8 out of 11 works winning the Vietnamese ceramics records.

In the morning of September 7th the contest started as part of Vietnam – Binh Duong Pottery Festival 2010. Of the 48 attending products, 34 themes are registered by 30 agencies. The contest is for pottery making, designing, decorating and shaping in original forms and meaningful in ideas expressing skillful creation.

The “Day for the Poor” campaign in the province has become the annual activity with profound humanity. After 10 years of implementing the campaign, many households herein rose up out of poverty; many poor pupils enjoyed heart surgeries to further pursue their study…

On Sept.7, Ben Cat district, in collaboration with Phuoc Hoa Rubber Joint Stock Co., Dau Tieng Rubber One-Member Co.Ltd., Binh Duong Telecom, Binh Duong Electricity Co., Binh Duong Post, Song Be Petrol and Oil Co., Chau Thoi Concrete 620 Co., Di An Carriage Co., held a ceremony to hand over 2 gratitude houses to Le Dinh Thanh, a war invalid in Tan Hung commune and Vo Thi Huong, mother of a martyr in Hung Hoa commune.

The Zone 6’s Veterinary Agency today, Sept.8, extends a training course on how to preserve and use vaccine against blue disease for provinces and cities with 200,000 doses of vaccine supported by China. The amount of the vaccine has been allocated to 21 provinces and cities, including Binh Duong, with average level of 10,000 doses for each locality.

The provincial mobilization board of the Fund for the poor yesterday summed up the 10-year implementation of the mobilization for the poor. Over the past 10 years, the fund at all levels mobilized nearly VND200bil from donors and bodies.

The Binh Duong Ceramic Festival 2010 opened on September 4 in Thu Dau Mot town in the southern province of Binh Duong. On this occasion, VietNamNet would like to introduce our readers to Tan Phuoc Khanh traditional ceramic village and the oldest ceramic kiln in Binh Duong province.

 Huynh Kim Oanh, chairman of provincial Sponsoring Society for the Disabled and Orphans presenting gifts to poor households in Ben Cat district Binh Duong province has made a breakthrough in hunger eradication and poverty reduction. The poverty line herein was adjusted two times to be suitable to the local socio-economic development between 2006 and 2010. It was two times higher than that of the nation.

Phu Giao district’s Military Command held a ceremony to donate a house of compassion to Vu Huy Dieu, a poor workers of Bo La Rubber Plantation in Tan Long commune.

Phu Giao district’s Council for Order and Security forwarded a conference to honor exemplary role-models in the campaign “All people take part in defending national security” between 2005 and 2010.