The union organized 74 campaigns themed “Volunteer Saturday”, “Green Sunday”, expedited youth works by mobilizing people to keep environmental hygiene as well as mobilized 2,855 youths to dredge canals.

Also in the quarter, Phu Giao district disbursed VND2.5bil in total from the provincial budget for 89 households and VND78mil from grassroot budget for 11 households. In addition, the locality in cooperation with the Bank for Social Policies offered loans for 2,853 households with the total outstanding loans worth nearly VND47bil.

The Fatherland Front Committee (FFC) of Tan My commune in Tan Uyen district has just provided the family of Tran Van Thanh residing in Bung Luong hamlet with unexpected support.

  

Under the Project of “Uniting and gathering young workers in Binh Duong”, Di An town has so far established 109 sub-unions for female workers at the local lodging facilities with 4,476 members.

As many as 70 overseas Vietnamese (OV) will return home to participate in the worship of Hung Kings and visit Truong Sa Archipelago from April 7-28.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front in Ho Chi Minh City announced at a conference on April 3 that the city has set a target of mobilising at least 30 billion VND for its fund “For the beloved Truong Sa – For Vietnam’s frontline” to help officers and soldiers serving in border and island areas.

*In Q1 2014, provincial People’s Committee decided to recognize 72 titles of “Excellent labor collectives”, 33 emulation soldiers at provincial level; award 14 emulation banners, 513 certificates of merit to collectives and individuals for their excellent performance in 2013; present the certificates of merit to 22 collectives and individuals for their contributions to the construction of Binh Duong New City and provincial Integrated Administration Center.

At the seminar, deputies heard about experiences shared by Mr. Stephen Whittle, former edit director of BBC (the United Kingdom), introduction of thesis themed “Vietnamese and international investigation journalism” presented by Tran Le Thuy, director of Centre for Journalism and Development Initiatives as well as role and reality of investigation journalism presented by journalist Le Xuan Trung (general secretary of Tuoi Tre Newspaper), Vu Binh (head of social politics board of Tuoi Tre Newspaper) and Duc Hien (general secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper).

Since early this year, provincial Job Placement Center gave direct employment consultancy and introduction to 7,371 laborers while providing 4,166 others with online employment consultancy.  Laborers visiting the website of provincial Job Placement Center to seek enterprises’ recruitment information

A project to remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from the American War in Vietnam has been performing in the central province of Nghe An, with a total investment of over 396 billion VND (18.8 million USD).

Di An town just held a partial summing up conference of the project of "Joining hands to protect environment". Accordingly, after more than 2 years of launching, the project has attracted the participation of numerous organizations and households in the whole of the town. The town quarters and households have set up 39 self-control teams on environmental sanitation, 3 non-garbage streets and 3 clean, green and beautiful residential areas with the attendance of more than 2,300 members. In addition, mass bodies and localities have often mobilized and disseminated local residents to maintain sanitation across streets and residential areas with the participation of more than 10,000 people. Therefore, in 2013 the number of garbage in this town declined 20% compared with the previous year, changing local people's awareness and action on environmental hygiene. In 2014, Di An town steering board of the project of "Joining hands to protect environment" will focus on some key tasks such as spurring dissemination work, maintaining road system in wards, perfecting garbage collection and transport system, expanding area of garbage collection, designing dust bins to grant families living in exemplary roads and simultaneously expanding the 5 nought and 3 clean model and so on.                                                                                                  Reported by D.Hoi - Translated by A.C