>Party leader visits residents in HCM City
>
>Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu yesterday visited residents in quarter 4
>in Binh Thach district and Ho Van Hue tenement in Phu Nhuan district, Ho Chi
>Minh City.
>
>This was part of his trip to the city to attend the seventh Congress of the Ho
>Chi Minh City’s Party Committee.
>
>General Secretary Phieu heard reports on achievements recorded by the people
>of the quarter 4, an outstanding quarter, for the past five years.
>
>He also inquired after their heath and livelihood and praised their spirit of
>mutual assistance. He said he wished that the quarter would obtain sustainable
>developments towards prosperity and civilisation.
>
>Mr Phieu called on and presented gifts to Cham ethnic minority people in the
>quarter and visited Ho Van Hue tenement.
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>President values Heroic Mothers’ contributions
>
>
>
>President Tran Duc Luong expressed profound gratitude of the Party and State
>to the sacrifices and devotions by Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and families with
>contributions to the struggle for the national independence.
>
>During a meeting with Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and contributors to the
>country from the Central Highlands province of Dac Lac in Hanoi on December
>18, President Luong inquired after their health and living conditions and was
>happy at the mutual assistance of people of ethnic minority groups in the
>province, which helped many families to get out of hunger and poverty.
>
>The president also asked the provincial authorities to pay more attention to
>the spiritual as well as material life of the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers,
>families, and of the war invalids and families of war martyrs.
>
>The Heroic Mothers expressed their gratitude to the Party, State and President
>Luong’s attention paid to them. They further affirmed to continue encouraging
>and educating their offspring to follow the revolutionary tradition, thus
>making a contribution to the national renovation and building a richer and
>stronger country.
****
>Vietnam treasures co-operation with Iraq, says president
>
>
>
>President Tran Duc Luong receives Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh.
>
>Vietnam always treasures its friendship and co-operation with Iraq, said
>President Tran Duc Luong while receiving Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi
>Saleh in Hanoi on December 18.
>President Luong thanked the Iraqi government and people for their support to
>Vietnam and expressed the Vietnamese people's solidarity with the Iraqi people
>in their just struggle for national independence and territorial integrity.
>
>He expressed the hope that the Vietnam-Iraq traditional friendship and
>co-operation would be further developed to their mutual benefit and for peace,
>stability and development in each region.
>
>President Luong asked Minister Saleh to convey his best regards to President
>Saddam Hussein and expressed his wishes that under the latter's leadership the
>Iraqi people would continue overcoming every difficulty and obtaining greater
>achievements in their national defence and construction.
>
>Trade Minister Saleh expressed joy at the achievements of the Vietnamese
>people in the past struggle for national independence and in national
>construction.
>
>He briefed President Luong about Iraq's political and socio-economic situation
>and affirmed the Iraqi people's determination to continue with their struggle
>for national independence and territorial integrity while constantly boosting
>co-operation with Vietnam. (VNA)
>
****
>Cu Chi’s excellent pupils presented scholarships
>
>
>
>PM Phan Van Khai presents scholarships to excellent pupils in difficulties.
>
>Prime Minister Phan Van Khai participated in a ceremony to present
>scholarships granted by the Governmental Office, the Ha Tien Cement Company No
>1 and others donors to 400 excellent pupils in difficulties of Cu Chi
>district, Ho Chi Minh City on December 17.
>
>The prime minister urged the pupils to learn harder in order to become good
>citizens, thus making active contributions to national construction, deserving
>to be children of a locality that has revolutionary traditions and made great
>achievements during the country’s resistance wars. More than 10,000 martyrs
>died on the land of Cu Chi so that their children can be able to go to
>schools, the prime minister stressed.
>
>The authorities and people of Cu Chi have always attached importance to
>education and training work. Since 1996, the district has set up an Education
>Sponsoring Fund with the participation of 82 donors to help excellent pupils
>in difficulties.
>
>The Vietnam Unilever group has announced a two-year educational sponsoring
>programme worth over VND 3 billion for the district. The programme includes
>providing US $50,000 as scholarships to study abroad to Cu Chi’s young talents
>in the 2000-2002 period and building a modern kindergarten worth VND 2.5
>billion in An Nhon Tay, a poor village of the district.
>
>Other units such as Kymdan Company, the Association for Poor Patients also
>sent gifts to Cu Chi’s excellent pupils.
>
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>NA chairman meets voters
>
>
>
>NA chairman Nong Duc Manh with Hanoi voters.
>
>National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nong Duc Manh met voters in Tay Ho and Ba Dinh
>districts of Hanoi on December 18 to inform them about the results of the
>recent NA meeting.
>
>Voters valued the work of the NA, especially in supervising the work of
>government agencies. They suggested many ideas relating to many branches and
>sectors, such as the government should have policies to encourage agricultural
>production with its supporting price for animal breeds and agricultural
>materials and its solution to the sale of agricultural products. They said of
>the need to perfect the State apparatus with the boosting of administrative
>reform and the enhancing of the responsibility of government agencies for
>handling the people’s complaints.
>
>Speaking at the meeting, NA chairman Nong Duc Manh informed voters about the
>socio-economic situation in 2000, saying there were many positive changes with
>major indicators reaching targeted or higher goals amid the destruction of
>natural disasters. Vietnam was successful in stopping the downturn in the
>economic growth and investment capital. The market economy with socialist
>orientation continued to develop with positive results. Social and political
>stability was maintained and international relations expanded.
>
>NA chairman Nong Duc Manh also said that shortcomings of the economy were
>handled slowly by concerned agencies. Social evils and traffic accidents are
>on the increase and the breakthrough is yet to be seen in the administrative
>reform. He welcomed suggestions and ideas of voters. He urged Hanoi's
>authorities to deal more effectively with the people's complaints with
>initiatives in mapping out better solutions to solve local problems before the
>people lodge their complaints.
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