Investment & Co-operation

Co Chien Bridge construction kicked start

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung ordered the start of construction of Co Chien Bridge on Monday morning, March 7, 2011. The ceremony took place in the Tra Vinh province side of the future bridge.The new bridge is to be built at 3.6 km downstream from the current ferry site. It is a BOT project, invested by the Ministry of Transport.

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Tourism

The third Coconut Festival 2012

Social Affairs

South Korea’s Global Vision on gifts giving in Ben Tre

On September 15, 2011, the South Korean charitable organization Global Vision came to Ben Tre and collaborated with the province’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA) to give 1,663 rations of charitable gift to poor people in Thanh Phu District. The total value for the gift giving was 1 million Vietnamese dongs. The gift giving event were attended by Mr Ngu Van Hoa – Vice Director of the Ben Tre DOLISA, and Mr Cho Myung Choel as a South Korean Global Vision representative.

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Humanitarian Info.

A French Doctor in Ben Tre

The French-Vietnamese Cultural Society in Perpignan city, Southern France, chaired by Ms Nguyen Thi That (That Pen), a Ben Tre native, is one of the expat Vietnamese organizations in France that has been steering humanitarian works back to the homeland.

Politics & Society

Ben Tre City modernizing bureaucratic formalities and procedures

Mr Nguyen Van Hung, Head of the Formalities Reform Center in the Department of Interior Affairs has said Ben Tre City's People's Committee is deploying the project to modernize administrative formalities and procedures done with the normal "one door" and inter-departmental "one door" and through computer network.

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Education & Training

Education networking kicked start

On November 6, 2008, the Military Telecommunication General Company (Viettel Telecom) in collaboration with Ben Tre's Department of Education and Training held a starting-of-work ceremony of the project to set up the Internet connection for the province's education sector.

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Arts & Culture

Monuments and relics in Ben Tre province

To date, Ben Tre province has 20 certified relics and monuments, of which there are 14 of national level and 6 provincial revolutionary historical monuments, memorial sites and relics.

Sciences & Tech.

Chau Thanh launches a component in the biogas program

On November 22, 2010, Ben Tre’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development started in Chau Thanh District a component in the Biogas Program for the Animal Husbandry Sector in Viet Nam between 2007-2012, sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and SNV, the Dutch largest development cooperation non-government organization.

Economy

Ben Tre inaugurates development plans for 2020

Mr Nguyen Van Hieu, the Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committee, on Thursday, March 10, 2011, resided over an open meeting including officials from the provincial departments and chairpersons of district People’s Committees and Ben Tre City. The meeting is intended to publicize Ben Tre province’s economical and social development plans for the duration between now and 2020. The plans have been approved by the central government and signed into effect by the Prime Minister on January 13, 2011.

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News from Departments

Ben Tre hard clam fishery Viet Nam and SEA first to receive MSC certificate

The World Wild Fund on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, posted news on its Website that said that Ben Tre's hard clam fishery had been granted with a certificate the day before by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for sustainable methodology of sea resources exploitation.

 

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