Making a call to Binh Duong Newspaper’s Charity Program is a soldier, saying that his neighbor is a pity girl, struggling with the autoimmune disease. Her circumstance is very pity, he asked the program to urge donors’ assistance.

Binh Duong Environment-Water Supply Co. yesterday held the 2nd blood donation day with the participation of about 200 company unionists and youths. They donated 200 units of blood to help the poor.

Thuan An district’s authority just proposed plan to improve orchards in 6 villages along Saigon river bank to save mangosteen, durian, langsat, and jackfruit from contaminated water sources.

Phu giao district People’s Committee and sponsors jointly granted 5 hi-unity houses to the poor at 2 communes of An Binh and Phuoc Hoa. Each house is worth of VND20-60mil funded by Thanh Le Ltd, 4 Chinese colonies and Binh Duong Lady Temple.

P&G Vietnam Ltd. yesterday granted 150 scholarships to local excellent-but-poor students. Each scholarship is worth of VND600,000 and consists of 20 notebooks. This is the third year the company and the local Labor Union jointly grant scholarships to needy students.

Tropical Storm Mindulle yesterday hit the coastal provinces from Quang Binh to Thanh Hoa with winds gusting at grade 10-11. It is forecast to gain strength as it travels northwest during the next 24 hours.

After two months of launching the “Ceramics and Life” photo contest, the organizing board received 969 photos of 128 photographers. As a result, the first prize for the photo collection went to photographer Truong Kim Bang from HCMC whilst the 1st prize for single photo went to Duong Hoang Hanh from Long An province.

Delegations of the provincial Veterinary Bureau and Animal Husbandry Bureau on Aug. 24 paid a working session with the local department of Agriculture and Rural Development to check the work of blue ear disease prevention in the locality. Accordingly, the epidemic disease remains complicated and is on the rise. As of Aug. 22, the entire province had 54 out of 91 communes having more than 10,000 sick pigs. The functional agencies also culled 4,850 sick pigs. However, after hitting across small breeding households, the blue-ear epidemic has spread to large scale breeding farmsteads.

Vietnam on August 20 brought a lawsuit protesting against the US imposition of anti-dumping taxes on the country’s shrimp to the Panel of the Dispute Settlement Body (PDSB) under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Switzerland.

A delegation of Ben Cat district’s leaders visited and presented gifts to Buddhist dignitaries at Long Chau pagoda in My Phuoc township, Phuoc Hoi pagoda in Lai Uyen commune and the district’s Buddhist Sangha Representative Board in Tan Dinh commune on the Vu Lan Festival 2010.

Thuan An district’s People’s Committee donated 154 gifts worth VND300,000 each to poor-but-excellent pupils.

The Industrial Promotion and Industrial Development Consulting Center under provincial Department of Industry and Trade has just opened a training course in skill of woodwork for 150 laborers from Minh Phuong Woodwork Co.Ltd. and Nguyen Ngoc Co. in Tan Uyen district’s Khanh Binh commune.

Thuan An district Youth Union on Aug. 21-22 cooperated with the Army Corp 4’s Military School to hold a training camping festival for 170 leaguers. The camping festival held training classes and forums on army skills for the participants. The union secretary Luong Minh Tan said this is a wide political activity for the local youths to celebrate the success of the 10th district Party Congress as well as eye enlistment festival 2010 to be held in early Sept.

The provincial Bureau of Food Safety and Hygiene just held a contest of “Role of collaborators in food safety and hygiene, especially street food”. The contest aims to heighten knowledge on food safety and hygiene for collaborators across communes, wards, townships of the province.

Maudgalyāyana’s piety will be included in Buddhism lectures that teachers in pagodas use to prompt us to show more love to our parents.