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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.

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.

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.

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.