Early April 27, provincial Businesswomen’s Club and An Binh commune’s Women Union in Phu Giao district co-held a ceremony to hand over a house of compassion to Nguyen Thi Quoi, a poor woman at Binh Thang hamlet, An Binh commune.

Viettel’s Binh Duong branch has just donated gifts, including Casio calculators, notebooks, English books… to poor-but-excellent pupils at Lai Uyen high school in Ben Cat district’s Lai Uyen commune and others at  Di An high school and An Binh junior high school in Di An district.

The 2006-2010 period poverty reduction program in the province is going to wrap up. The local poverty line is three folds higher than central line. The locality is in completion of poverty reduction targets in line with local new line and is in outline of new poverty lines for the period of 2010-2015.

Local transport companies have no plans of increasing their fares during the upcoming holidays. However, they strengthen more coaches to cater for passengers on the holiday.

Waste water of Ajinomoto Company’s sodium glutamate waste entrepot at Ben Cat district often overflows into outside area, causing serious impacts on local residents’ life over the past month. The kind of waste water makes grass and trees die.

At 21:10 pm on April 22, a fire occurred at the Southern Rubber Industry Joint Stock Company (Casumina)’s chemical workshop, which is located at the fourth storey of the company’s six-storey building in Tan Uyen district’s Uyen Hung township.

In response to the Earth Day (April 22), P&G Company offered compact lights (using less power) to 100 households in Thuan An district’s Binh Hoa commune. The good deed not only mobilized families to respond the Earth Day but raised the community’s awareness on saving power, building a more sustainable life.

In the evening of April 23, the provincial People’s Committee held the Hung Kings’ death anniversary at Hung Vuong Gifted School. The anniversary took place amid celebrations of great holidays of the 1,000th anniversary of Ha Noi, 35th anniversary of Southern Liberation, so the death anniversary was a chance to educate young generation and people about the ethnic principles.

On the Hung Kings’ Death anniversary, Phu Giao district Women’s Union on April 22 held a masquerade contest themed ‘Vietnam Soul’ and glutinous rice cake cooking contest with the attendance of 61 teams from the union’s affiliates.

Thanh Phuoc Port JSC started a construction of  Thanh Phuoc Port at Tan Uyen district’s Thanh Phuoc commune on April 22. Thanh Phuoc Port JSC is established by 3 shareholders of Biconsi Co., South Tan Uyen Industrial Park JSC and Unigroup.

 

‘Hung Kings Commemoration Temple’ is a main work of Hung Kings commemoration area under the Historical and Cultural Park in District 9, HCMC, covering a total area of 395ha, of which 27ha is located at Di An district, Binh Duong province. The work’s 1st phase was opened in 2009. The Commemorative Area is a symbol for people’s spirit returning to the national roots and is a sacred place for the public to show their respect and love for Hung kings. 

 Hung Temple gate is ready for Hung Kings’ death anniversary.This year’s Hung Kings death anniversary in Binh Duong, co-held by Training and Education Department and Culture-Sports and Tourism Department, will be held at Hung Vuong Gifted School on the tenth day of the third lunar month.

The first day of the fruit festival in Tien Giang province attracted a large number of visitors and businesses. By the end of the first day, more than 800 stalls had sold out all their fruit.

These days, getting married to a foreigner is an ordinary problem. However, many girls like to get married to foreigners to have a new life.