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Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)   Ben Tre (VNA) – The fifth Ben Tre Coconut Festival, themed “Coconuts on the Way to Integration and Sustainable Development”, opened in the Mekong Delta city of Ben Tre on November 16 in the presence of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Cao Van Trong said it is the first time the festival has been held in concurrent with the great national unity festival in wards and communes. Ben Tre is now home to over 72,000ha of coconut, accounting for half of the country’s and 80 percent of the Mekong Delta’s total areas. With over 800 million nuts each year, the province earns over 200 million USD from export and its coconut products are available in more than 50 countries and territories at present, he said. In his … [Read more...] about Ben Tre coconut festival 2019 kicks off

At the event (Photo: VNA)   Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – The National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on November 11 held an annual requiem for the victims who lost their life to traffic accidents in Vietnam this year. The event aims to raise an alarm in the whole society on traffic accidents in the country, thus raising awareness of the community in abiding by the traffic law and calling on them to assist the victims and their families. The participants observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims and the organizing board delivered relief aid to representatives of bereaved families. Speaking at the event, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, who is also head of the national committee, said that traffic accidents take the life of over 8,000 people and injure more than 15,000 others in Vietnam each year. Losses caused by traffic accidents are causing adverse influences on the country’s economic growth and … [Read more...] about Requiem for victims of traffic accidents in Vietnam

The dreams of a young Japanese woman play out in a school in the central province of Quang Nam every day. Primary school symbolises Japanese girl’s appreciation of Vietnam Hoi An City starts Japanese education at primary schools Japanese volunteer changes lives of Agent Orange kids Hirotaro Takahasi (left), Junko's father, poses for a photo at Junko School's museum in his visit in May 2019. — Photo vov.vn Junko Primary School in Dien Phuoc Commune, Dien Ban District is named after that Japanese woman, whose family paid to build it. Realising a dream Junko Takahasi was a third year student at the International Relations Department of the Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. In 1993, she visited Vietnam on an exchange programme. She came to poor areas in Quang Nam and witnessed the children's difficult conditions, which she noted in her diary. She wrote that after graduation, she wanted to work in Vietnam and spend some of her salary building a school for the needy … [Read more...] about Japanese father fulfills his daughter’s dream