Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Binh visits the Coast Guard Region 2. Last year, these units overcame difficulties, and outstandingly fulfilled their missions, such as training, combat readiness, management and protection of national maritime sovereignty, giving support to locals in disaster prevention and control, search and rescue, and the COVID-19 fight. They also paid due attention to caring for the living conditions of troops, policy beneficiaries and servicemen in need. … [Read more...] about General Staff leader visits units in Quang Nam and Da Nang
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Vice President pays pre-Tet visit to poor workers in Binh Duong
Binh Duong (VNA) - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on January 22 led a delegation visiting poor employees at the Vietnam Dairy Factory at the My Phuoc II Industrial Park in the southern province of Binh Duong on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. Thinh praised the efforts of the company as well as other enterprises in Binh Duong to ensure stable livelihoods for workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The delegation presented Tet gifts and 1 million VND (43 USD) in cash each to 80 workers in difficult circumstances and their children. According to the provincial Labour Confederation, despite the difficulties posed by the pandemic, most companies and enterprises in the locality gave Tet bonuses to their employees. Free bus tickets were presented to 4,000 workers who could not afford the fare back to their hometown for Tet. Local authorities and trade unions also presented 13,000 Tet gifts to local workers and 4,000 gift packages to those severely affected by … [Read more...] about Vice President pays pre-Tet visit to poor workers in Binh Duong
Air Defense – Air Force Service visits women families in ethnic minority areas
Presenting gifts to ethnic minority people The program aims to encourage ethnic women in remote areas to overcome difficulties to stabilize their normal lives. Reportedly, a delegation of the Political Department under the Air Defense – Air Force Service visited and offered 50 gift packages, worth VND 1 million each, to needy women in communes of Suoi Giang and An Luong; handed over VND 50 million in cash to a representative of a local boarding school for ethnic minority students in Pang Cang village, Suoi Giang village; as well as provided local people with 10 boxes of medicines, valued at VND 20 million. … [Read more...] about Air Defense – Air Force Service visits women families in ethnic minority areas
Defense Minister hosts Lao ambassador
In the morning of the same day, a mission from the Vietnamese MND, led by Senior Colonel Pham Manh Thang, Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Relations under the MND, visited the Lao embassy in Hanoi to congratulate Laos on the 72nd Laos’ founding anniversary (January 20, 1949 - 2021) and on the success of the 11th National Congress of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party. … [Read more...] about Defense Minister hosts Lao ambassador
Don’t come home for Tet, Vietnam tells expats as new Covid-19 strains spread
It is important for them to understand that "not returning home at this time is also a contribution to pandemic prevention in Vietnam," officials from the three ministries said at a meeting with the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on Thursday. … [Read more...] about Don’t come home for Tet, Vietnam tells expats as new Covid-19 strains spread