The local bureau of Population – Family Planning has extended the 1st Population communication campaign 2010 to 46 communes, wards and townships across province from March 8 to April 8.

To enhance local people’s awareness on excelling the law on Road Traffic, the local Judicial department offered good advices for the local People’s Committee to issue the Instruction No.07/2009/CT-UBND dated April 1, 2009 on boosting promulgations on traffic safety.

Thuan An district’s women has so far accounted for over 53% of local population. Therefore, in all local activities, women have played an important role and have been positive factors in emulation movements.

Binh Duong Social Insurance just held the 15th founding anniversary of Social Insurance and got the Second Class Labor Order. Over the past 15 years, Binh Duong Social Insurance has managed to reap significant results. In initial days of its inception, the entire province had only 355 units of 35,000 laborers involving in social insurance but till 2009 the province had 4,617 units of 518,127 workers. The total turnover of social and health and volunteer insurance in the past year was VND2,376bil, up over 50 times from 1996.

Nguyen Thi Lan, deputy head of the Employment Division under provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said that province-based businesses are facing a serious labor shortage.

Many businesses in the Southern key economic zone are facing a serious labor shortage and have been looking for large number of laborers for their production and trading activities.

Visiting Le Lam fresh flower shop on Thich Quang Duc Road, TDM town, everyone will be surprised by flower- arranging skill of male staff.

Thu Dau Mot town Youth Month’s steering board just held a ceremony to launch the Youth Month 2010. In this year, the town focuses on environmental protection and urban rejuvenation. Attending the program are the steering board and over 500 youths and unionists of Vo Minh Duc high school and grassroot youth unions.

As informed in our article (paper version 2906) dated February 25th, the new regulations on sanctioning of environment protection violation have offered tougher fines to polluters. Today, we post the general points of possible fines on this issue.

Early March 2, a delegation from Becamex IDC’s Youth Union visited and donated gifts to centers for the elderly and orphans at Chanh Phu Hoa Center for the Elderly and the Disabled in Ben Cat district in response to the 2010 Youth Month launched by provincial Youth Union.

In a bid to prevent the recurrence of bird flu, provincial Animal Health Department has tightened control over the transport of poultry and poultry products to the province from other localities; asked for concentrated breeding facilities to strengthen detoxification; registered to buy bird flu vaccine and implement vaccination of poultry across the province.

As surveyed, most businesses at province-based IPs have had the demand of employee recruitment after Tet.

Tan Uyen district’s forest fire fighting force issued a document on boosting anti-fire measures in dry season 2010. Accordingly, localities, rubber plantations and forests and orchards’ owners should accelerate measures controlling drought and forest fire, implement forest anti-fire measures drastically. Besides, they should equip human resources, equipments adequately as well as make patrols around the clock.

Di An district held a solemn ceremony to honor 120 typical women and granted insignias ‘For Vietnamese women’s development’ to 5 sisters who dedicated to local women’s development. The entire has so far had over 20,800 women members, accounting for 66.37%, showing the increase of quality and quantity with 23% of sisters having university diplomas.

Despite scorching sun, tourists still gathered to enjoy the palanquin festival and kylin, dragon dance on the 15th of lunar first month. Like previous years, leading the palanquin delegation of this year’s Lady Thien Hau Pagoda festival was order security team and the national flag carrying team.