PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits and presents Tet gifts to needy workers in Dak Lak. (Source: VNA) DakLak (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 8 visitedand presented Tet gifts to over 100 needy workers in the Central Highlands provinceof Dak Lak. The PM hailed the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour and localenterprises for taking care of local labourers, including organising Tetcelebrations for poor workers.Heurged the agency to check disadvantaged workers nationwide and Dak Lak in particularto offer timely assistance for them, ensuring they will have a happytraditional Lunar New Year (Tet).ThePM also requested the confederation to develop social houses for workers andkindergartens for their children, thus sharing their difficulties.Thesame day, Prime Minister Phuc also visited and presented Tet gifts to socialpolicy beneficiaries and ethnic minority households in Kram village, Ea Tieucommune, Co Kuin district.EaTieu is home to over 4,700 households in 12 ethnic people, mainly living on growingcoffee and pepper trees, with the average annual income per capita of 32million VND (1,400 USD).Thecommune has 307 poor households and 546 other near the poverty line. It hascompleted 13 out of 19 criteria of the new-style rural area building programme.ThePM requested local authorities to ensure all residents will enjoy thetraditional festival.Whilein Ea Tieu commune, the Government leader also paid pre-Tet visits to VietnameseHeroic Mothers Nguyen Thi Huong and Nguyen Thi Dom, and local former leaders.-VNA
Nhan Dan Online - Deputy PM Vu Van Ninh on January 16 visited and presented Tet gifts to disadvantaged households and victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Nhon Ai commune in Mekong Delta Can Tho city's Phong Dien district. Ninh on behalf of the Government conveyed his best wishes to local residents on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, the biggest festival of the year. The deputy PM affirmed that the Party and State always pay attention to the care of disadvantaged people, following the nation's tradition of goodwill towards each other. He also urged Can Tho…... [read more]
Deputy chairman of the HCM City People's Committee, Hua Ngoc Thuan, called on poor ethnic Chinese families in the city on January 28 to greet them for Tet (the lunar New Year) and give them gifts. Among those he gave gifts were the families of Lu Le Phan, Vuong My, and Ho Van Hong of District 8. He wished them a happy New Year and hoped they would overcome difficulties to improve their lives. Mr. Thuan also visited and gave gifts to poor families in Nha Be District.On the same day, the HCMC Fatherland Front Committee together with its District…... [read more]
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has committed to help the Central Highland province of Dak Lak build schools and kindergartens in its disadvantaged districts. Under the agreement signed between the UNHCR and the provincial People’s Committee on February 29, the UN agency will provide Dak Lak with US$150,000 to build a primary school in Ea Drong village in Buon Ho town, a nursery school in Ea M’Roh village in Cu M’gra district, and three classrooms for preschool children in Dlue Ya Commune in Knong Nang district. The rest of the capital will come from the province’s budget, according to the…... [read more]
On January 17, Trade Union in Taekwang Vina Company held a Tet gift-giving ceremony granting gifts to 12,500 workers who were working for the company. Each gift was worth VND64,000 (US$3.6). On lunar December 28, the Trade Union in cooperation with Youth Union of Binh Da ward Trade Union is going to pay visit and give 200 gifts worth VND20 million (US$1,137) to the workers living far from their homelands in across Bien Hoa city and deciding celebrating Tet festival in Dong Nai. Currently company's employees are on average paid ranging from VND1.7 to 1.8 million (US$97 to 98US$), the…... [read more]
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee's chapter in Ho Chi Minh City 's District 5 on January 4 presented gifts to poor Raglai ethnic people in the central province of Ninh Thuan on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet). The 100 gift packages including money and essential commodities were presented to impoverished families in Phuoc Ha and Phuoc Thai communes. Chairman of the chapter Tran Van Nghia said the organisation has encouraged individuals and organisations in Ho Chi Minh City to join hands in helping poverty-stricken compatriots in Ninh Thuan have a cozy Tet, the biggest festival…... [read more]
