Phu Giao district’s Red Cross Society yesterday cooperated with the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital’s Blood Transfusion Center to organize a humanitarian blood donation stage with the participation of 200 local youths and people.

Provincial Agencies Bloc’s Youth Union will organize the first camping festival “Lightening up the dreams” at the Junior College for Technology and Trade Union’s Specialist Skills on September 4 and 5, which expects to absorb more than 500 local youths.

On August 18th, Chief of Hanoi City Education and Training Department Secretariat Nguyen Hiep Thong signed a document to send the heads of district level departments of education and training to prepare for the new school year.

Fourteen classical plays of different genres such as tuong, cheo, and cai luong have been selected for the theatre festival that opened at the Hanoi Opera House on August 19.

Thousands of paper bags are folded by old calendars, magazines and so on and are granted to small traders at markets in a bid to encourage everyone to use the environmentally friendly product. It is one of lively activities of Thu Dau Mot town Youth Union’s youth in this year’s volunteer summer campaign.

As many as 20 elite youths of Binh Duong province on Aug. 20 will join in the Vietnam-China Youth Festival at ethnic Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangxi province on Aug. 25-29. The provincial delegation along with 3,000 other youths, representing 63 provinces and cities nationwide will participate in the festival.  With the theme of “China-Vietnam Friendship”, the festival will consist of contents of friendship forum, exchange night and so on.

 Dat Cuoc commune attaches special importance to investing and developing its infrastructure Dat Cuoc, My Loc, Tan Tich, Thuong Lan…were the famous place-names of the War Zone D in  the past two wars of resistance. After 1975-liberation, the then war zone in general and Dat Cuoc in particular have been on the rise day by the day.

Over the past five years, Phu Giao district built and handed over 938 unity and gratitude houses worth more than VND9.3bln to poor people and policy beneficiary families.

   A corner of the embroidered pieceAn enormous embroidered piece entitled “Coi xua” (Old Origins) to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi will be on display at the Hanoi Cultural Friendship Palace from August 25th to 29th.

On August 18, provincial Sponsoring Society for the Disabled, Orphans and Poor Patients, in collaboration with Tan Uyen district’s Division of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, presented 20 bicycles worth VND1mln each to orphans and offspring of the disabled and poor patients in the district.

Nguyen Van Tri director of Binh Duong Urban Works One-Member Co.Ltd. said that sanitary is the indispensable task to urban environment, so the company has always taken measures to effectively implement its waste collection. Since 2005, the company has collected 214,960 tons of waste and placed them in stipulated places.

Provincial People’s Committee just issued Document No. 2207 assigning Department of Information and Telecommunication to joint hands with involved agencies in co-founding a specialized inspecting team in charge of setting right activities of game online in local internet service stations.

With ambition for career, and with the motto of “making charity aims to help people”, herbalist Nguyen Manh Hung in Thuan An district’s Binh Nhan commune makes greater efforts to help poor people by laser acupuncture treatment over past 10 years.

Over the past five years, Thuan An district made a strong rebound in terms of infrastructure and trade-services, contributing to improving the lives of the local people. The district’s GDP per capital was about 45mln, taking the lead among other localities in the province and double compared to the province’s average GDP per capita.

* Gifts given for poor pupils in Thuan An