Vietjet places new o🦹rder foไr 100 A321neo aircraft
The latest order follows Vietjet’s commitment for 20 additional A330neo aircraft last month, bringing the airline’s total widebody aircraft on order to 40.
An 810,000 EUR project will be implemented in central Quang Triprovince to encourage the local community’s participation in Statebudget management.
The project was launched at aconference on May 12 in Quang Tri by the provincial Women’s Union, thePeople’s Council and the Centre for Development and Integration.
The project, funded by the European Union, will be carried out fromApril 2015 to March 2018. In that time it aims to enhance awarenessabout the issue for more than 6,000 women and disadvantaged peopleliving in six communes in Gio Linh and Hai Lang districts.
It also aims to strengthen the role, competency and responsibility ofPeople’s Councils – which directly represents local residents - at alllevels in supervising public budget usage.
Under theproject, beneficiaries are expected to get deeper understanding aboutpublic budget collection and spending, and involve themselves in theprocess via local programmes on poverty reduction and development.
Meanwhile, People’s Committees at grassroots and provincial levels areto facilitate the practical participation of civil social and communityorganisations in the development of the public budget and monitoringthe financing of social programmes.
Participantshave suggested a number of approaches for the project implementation,including ranking the transparency of public budget users.-VNA
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