The provincial People’s Committee vice chairman Tran Van Nam steered department and relevant agencies to spur promulgation and mobilization to workshops for relocating to other places or shifting to proper operations. Duration for the removal’s completion must be finalized by June 2013.

As a result, the rate of new soldiers having university, college and intermediate degrees won nearly 11% and ratio of party members in the campaign accounted for nearly 4.5%. Meanwhile, localities mobilized to hold gift visits to new soldiers with the total value of about VND2.3bil.

Under the campaign of “Studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh’s exemplary morals”, the Youth Union of Phu An commune in Ben Cat district has actively got involved in substantial activities for the sake of the community.

Dau Tieng district’s Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee, Fatherland Front Committee have just coordinated with two communes of Long Hoa and Minh Hoa to organize a ceremony to hand over two houses of compassion to those who are in need of housing.

According to provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the province’s expenditure for the Project of “Education on lifestyle and morals in Vietnamese family” in 6 communes, wards and townships in 2012 is estimated at more than VND188mln.

Vietnam will get EURO150 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) as part-financing projects for climate change mitigation in the nation.

Provincial Fatherland Front Committee (FFC) has so far set up 23 self-governing groups on environmental protection.

Provincial Association for the Blind, on Oct.31, held a conference to review the five-year implementation of the Project “Improving solidarity-taking initiative to rise up and integrate into community” between 2007 and 2012.

Do Thi Thu Ha, chairwoman of the communal Women Union, said the union has focused on spurring promulgation to mobilize members and cadres to raise awareness on environmental protection.

Safety-thrift-environmental friendliness

After nearly a day going adrift in the sea, 35 people on an oil rig near Bach Long Vi Island (Hai Phong city) was brought ashore by a helicopter.