In 2004, Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) launched the Mobilization on “Building Affection Houses” to commemorate 50th Year of the Dien Bien Phu Victory with the aim that by 2010, there will be no families living in dilapidated or temporary houses. At the 3rd session (July, 2008) of VWU Executive Committee, VWU continued to promote the Mobilization on “Building Affection Houses” for poor women, single women and disabled women with especially difficult situations with the target that “There is every week getting one new house built for poor women - poor family”.

A grand ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ben Tre (Concerted Uprising) (January 17, 1960 – January 17, 2010) was held by the Ben Tre province’s People’s Council, the People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front on January 17.

VietNamNet Bridge – Trieu Thi Nai has been elected to the 9th National Assembly and returning to Congress and after three terms, sees great change. Meanwhile her family recently moved from Ha Giang to Hanoi but, as she told VietNamNet, she’s still getting used to the traffic.

October 20 is observed annually as vietnamese women’s day to highlight their role and status in the struggle for the nation’s revolutionary cause as well as its Doi Moi (Renovation) process.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in Hanoi on January 12 coordinated with the Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council (VWEC) and the Central Vietnam Women’s Union to hold a press conference to launch the National Week on Vietnamese Women 2010.