The VFF’s Hanoi chapter has collected donations worth VND600 million from Hanoians to assist flood-hit regions.

Of the total, Bac Kan province will receive VND200 million, and Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lai Chau and Lao Cai provinces, VND100 million each.

The staff of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) are raising money to build new houses, each worth VND30 million, for 30 families rendered homeless by the floods in early July - 16 households in Bac Kan province, 11 in Cao Bang and three in Lai Chau province.

Ho Chi Minh City has donated VND500 million to these provinces to cope with the aftermath of the disaster.

Flood and torrential rains claimed 18 lives in the northern mountainous provinces in recent days, including seven in Ha Giang, four in Bac Kan, three in Cao Bang, two in Lao Cai, one in Son La and one in Lai Chau, according to the National Steering Committee on Flood and Storm Control. The flood also left two people in Cao Bang and nine others in Bac Kan missing.

In addition, 756 houses were submerged in water, 40 houses destroyed and more than 600ha of rice and subsidiary crops ruined.