VNA State Rewards Bill discussed The Central Council for Emulation and Reward held a meeting under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai yesterday to discuss the draft Law on State Rewards. Secretary general of the council and head of the State Emulation and Reward Institute, Cao Kim Huong, delivered a report on the formulation and the content of the bill. The council's members held that this is a great policy of the Party and State to praise and honour contributions of individuals and collectives in the national construction and defence. This also aims at encouraging people to promote the tradition of undauntedness in struggle, industriousness and creativity of the Vietnamese people. So it is therefore necessary to promulgate the Law on State Rewards. At the meeting, participants contributed their opinions to the bill and these ideas, together with the instruction of the prime minister, will be the basis for the Drafting Board to continue revising the draft law. **** Tree planting festival continues nationwide The Spring Tree Planting Festival is continuing across Vietnam. People in Bac Giang province have planted 16,885 trees to cover bare hills, responding to the �Tree Planting Festival¹ on the first days of the Lunar New Year. Plantations in the province have now had enough seedlings to plant 3,227 hectares of forest this year. Forest ranger stations have prepared seedlings trees to help communes plant 210,000 scattered trees and 100 hectares of fruit trees. The Phu Tho provincial Military Command has so far planted 400 hectares of forests and 4,000 scattered and 1,500 fruit trees. Despite severe damage caused by last year¹s flooding, the total fruit tree area in the southern province of Can Tho increased by 653 hectares, raising the total area under fruit trees to 30,666 hectares. **** Kon Tum's youth join social activities Young people in the Central Highlands' Kon Tum province maintained frequent social activities last year, including movements of 'Fund of Compassion' and 'When Drinking Water, Remember its Source' and a drive for young people in border, remote and mountainous areas. The provincial youth is now taking care of 36 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and 17 isolated mothers of martyrs. They often call at and present gifts to families who are beneficiaries of the State's priority policy and to the State's contributors with total money of VND 20 million. Young people have built four 'houses of compassion.' Especially, the province's youth found 32 remains of martyrs and held funeral services at the martyrs' cemeteries. **** Khanh Hoa veterans honoured Khanh Hoa province held a ceremony on February 5 to present Communist Party of Vietnam membership badges to 63 revolutionary veterans who have made great contributions to the revolutionary cause on the occasion of the 71st founding anniversary of the Party. So far, 3,906 Khanh Hoa province Party Committee members have been presented with various kinds of the Party membership badges, including four 60-year Party membership badges and 1,639 fifty-year Party membership badges. **** Pupils learn about the Party through stamps Thieu Nien Tien Phong (Young Pioneers) newspaper, in co-ordination with Ninh Binh province's Youth Union and post office, has launched a contest to learn about the Communist Party of Vietnam through stamps on the occasion of the 71st founding anniversary of the Party at the Le Hong Phong secondary school in Ninh Binh. Over 1,000 pupils representing secondary schools in the province were told about the meaning of the Party's founding day. On the occasion, the newspaper handed over three Thien Long scholarships, worth VND 200,000 each, to three poor pupils having good studying records. **** Child support campaign to be launched A campaign aimed at protecting children¹s rights and preventing children from violating laws; helping street children, orphans and those who are affected with Agent Orange and handicapped children such as collecting clothes, medicines, money and books for them will begin in March 2001. The campaign, entitled �Society Volunteers for Children in Special Difficulties,¹ will be launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee. It will last until December 2002. The Youth Union Central Committee will closely co-ordinate with the labour, war invalids and social affairs sector, the Vietnam Committee for Protection and Care of Children, the Red Cross Association, Police, Press Agencies and other relevant agencies, sectors and organisations so that the campaign can make effective results. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
