>Party chief underscores unity and democracy
>
>Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu has stressed the
>importance of ensuring solidarity, unity and democracy within the Party,
>saying the nation would be stronger only if each Party cell was united and
>healthy.
>
>Mr Phieu was speaking with senior officials as part of a working visit to
>mid-land Vinh Phuc province on December 13.
>
>Underscoring democratic centralism, criticism and self-criticism, Mr Phieu
>said that the Communist Party's goal was to struggle and work for the interest
>of the people and the nation. All Party members should have a single ideal and
>work for a common goal, putting aside individualism and partialism, he said.
>
>Praising Vinh Phuc province for having achieved significant economic growth,
>Mr Phieu called for more concerted efforts from the province's Party officials
>to make it a more wealthy and prosperous. Vinh Phuc is now preparing to hold
>its provincial Party congress. (VNA)
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>Government plans to tighten ODA management
>
>The government had devised a plan to revise its regulations for the management
>and use of Official Development Assistance, ODA, to meet donors' requests and
>conform to Vietnam's regulations governing investment and construction,
>Investment and Planning Minister Tran Xuan Gia has told the Dau Tu
>(Investment,) newspaper.
>
>Interviewed by the newspaper as a prelude to a donors' consultative group
>meeting to be held in Hanoi on December 14 and 15, the minister emphasized
>that the meeting would be of special importance because it would review
>Vietnam's achievements in a decade of renovation and its management and use of
>ODA since 1993.
>
>Mr Gia said the participants planned to take a more longer-term view than
>usual and focus on Vietnam's strategy for the coming decade, while discussing
>the country's needs and guidelines for ODA in the next five years.
>
>The government and donors had signed ODA agreements worth about US $12.4
>billion or 82% of the total package pledged by donors in 1993-99, in a bid to
>effectively use the aid by the end of last October.
>
>Mr Gia said about US $1.68 billion of ODA had been disbursed so far this year,
>but greater efforts must be made to quicken disbursement and remove such
>impediments as re-settlement and ground levelling. The amount of pledged ODA
>rose from US $1.81 billion in 1993 to US $2.1 billion, excluding US $0.7
>billion in support of economic reforms, this year.
>
>Completed ODA projects had helped develop socio-economic infrastructure and
>accelerate poverty alleviation and hunger elimination programmes.
>
>In addition, the government had used ODA to boost agricultural and rural
>development as well as expand medical and educational services, transport and
>energy.
>
>About 25% of ODA was used to develop the electricity sector. (VNA)
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>Vietnam, China friendship associations boost co-operation
>
>The friendship associations of Vietnam and China have pledged to strengthen
>their co-operation so as to help develop comprehensive relations between the
>two countries.
>Acting President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations, Nguyen Xuan
>Hong, and Deputy Chairman of the China Association for International Friendly
>Contacts, Zhu Liang, have just discussed co-operation between the two
>associations.
>
>Zhu Liang led a working delegation to Vietnam from December 5-10. The
>delegates were received by member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central
>Committee (CPVCC) and Director of the CPVCC's Commission for External
>Relations, Nguyen Van Son.
>
>They also had working sessions with officials of the CPVCC's Commission for
>Culture and Ideology, friendship associations and officials of Ho Chi Minh
>City and northern Quang Ninh province. (VNA)
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>Dong Thap provides VND 32 billion for flood relief
>
>The southern province of Dong Thap has spent VND 32 billion drawn from its
>budget to overcome the flood consequences.
>
>To date, 17,000 households, which had to evacuate in the flood, have returned
>to their homes. People have step-by-step stabilised their lives and restored
>production. Units in the province have helped rebuild about 250 collapsed
>houses. As for people killed by the flood, the province has supported the
>family with one dead person with VND 2 million as stipulated by the
>government.
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>Tidal waves pull down houses in Quang Ngai
>
>Tidal waves encroached over 100 metres deep in the land and pulled down 11
>houses in Pho Thach commune, Quang Ngai province on December 12.
>
>The tropical depression was responsible for the tidal waves.
>
>The local administration asked the relevant sectors to provide emergency
>relief aid in a bid to help these affected households buy food and arrange
>temporary houses for them.
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