Submitting to Ho Chi Minh City People's Council a plan to exempt bus tickets in April
Talking to Lao Dong Newspaper on the morning of April 3, Mr. Bui Hoa An - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction said that functional units are urgently completing relevant dossiers and procedures.
According to the plan, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council may meet around April 20; if the Resolution on bus ticket exemption is approved, the policy will take effect after about 10 days.
Previously, at the 5th Conference of the Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, on April 1, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang informed that the city had a policy of exempting bus tickets for people.
It is expected that the budget needs about 7,000 billion VND per year to implement. Although it is a large expense, city leaders assess this as a necessary investment to aim for long-term goals such as reducing traffic congestion, improving the environment and improving the quality of urban life.
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Dien Bien launches campaign to plant 12,000 hectares of new coffee and macadamia trees
On the morning of April 3, localities in the province simultaneously organized a campaign to dig holes to plant new coffee and macadamia trees.
In 2026, Dien Bien strives to dig more than 21.6 million planting holes, equivalent to about 12,000 hectares, including 5,930 hectares of coffee and 6,070 hectares of macadamia (including intercropping and pure planting).
It is expected that about 6,000 households will participate, with each household planting an average of about 1 hectare of coffee and 1 hectare of macadamia.
To implement the plan, the province mobilized about 14,150 workers, including 12,000 people, 900 militia and self-defense forces and 1,250 officers and soldiers of the armed forces to participate in support, especially in difficult areas.
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Cracking down on a line of appropriating 500 tons of cashew nuts, worth 22 billion VND
On April 3, the Investigation Police Agency (Criminal Police Department - PC02) of Ho Chi Minh City Police said that it had initiated a criminal case, prosecuted defendants and temporarily detained 24 subjects for the crimes of fraud and appropriation of property and consumption of property obtained from others' crimes.
Previously, implementing the direction of the Board of Directors of Ho Chi Minh City Police on combating theft and appropriation of goods at seaports, scouts of Team 6 (PC02 Department) in coordination with Hiep Phuoc Commune Police caught Quach Quang Dai (30 years old, residing in Ca Mau province) red-handed in the act of inflating the volume of container trucks at Saigon Hiep Phuoc Port to appropriate imported cashew nuts.
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