*In the first half of the year, the whole province mobilized around VND436bln to take care of social policy beneficiaries on Tet and great holidays; built 8 gratitude houses and 77 unity and charity houses; increased the support level of buying healthy insurance for those who belong to near-poor households…

*Phu Giao district’s Steering Board of the 2013 Summer Activities has just organized the 2013 competition on telling book-based stories with the participation of 42 candidates from primary and junior high schools under 11 steering boards of summer activities across the district. Finally, Phuoc Vinh township topped the competition.

*In the first half of the year, Dau Tieng district’s People’s Committee reached more than VND987.2bln in industrial production value or 46% of the plan, up 10.7% compared to the corresponding period last year.

Of these, agricultural production value achieved more than VND235.8bln or 30.5% of the plan. Industrial production value gained VND303.7bln or 49% of the plan while total value of trade and services was estimated at VND447.5bln or 61% of the plan.

*Tan Uyen district’s Women’s Union in the first half of the year mobilized many different sources to provide 1,497 women with more than VND10bln in loan for homebased business development. For example, under the movement of “Women helping each other in economic development”, 467 well-off women provided 923 poor women with more than VND1.1bln in loan without interest rates. The “Saving day for the poor” campaign mobilized VND255mln in loan for 215 women. The model of “Tan Uyen’s women with credit saving” collected more than VND232mln with 4,250 members…

Reported by Dam Thanh-Hoai Phuong-Hoang Tien-Thu Thao-Translated by K.T