The money was handed over to Deputy Head of the National Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Tran Duc Mau by the First Secretary of the Vietnam Consulate General Truong Tam, in Khonkaen on October 23.

Typhoon Ketsana, the ninth to hit Vietnam so far this year, extended its destructive rampage throughout the central and Central Highlands regions killing over 160 people and injuring 630 others. It also destroyed over 6,300 houses and damaged more than 340,000 others.