Vietnamese expats stabilise lives after fire in Cambodia
The support from Vietnamese and Cambodian authorities, and international organisations have helped Vietnamese expatriates in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, overcome difficulties after a fire burnt their houses to the ground last month.
A fire burnt 57 houses of Vietnamese expats to ground. (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – The support from Vietnamese and Cambodianauthorities, and international organisations have helped Vietnamese expatriatesin Phnom Penh, Cambodia, overcome difficulties after a fire burnt their housesto the ground last month.
Attending a ceremony jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia andKhmer-Vietnamese Association on August 4 to review relief activities for firevictims, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh expressed hisgratitude towards Cambodian leaders and authorities for giving timelyassistance to the Vietnamese expatriates.
This was a successful relief campaign, he said, adding that it set a record interms of speed, donated money and items, and the number of sponsors.
Also, he took the occasion to thank Vietnam’s resident reporters in Cambodiafor spreading updated news about the incident.
At the event, the organising board handed over assistance from the VietnamFatherland Front Central Committee to the victims, with 20 million VND (870USD) offered to each family.
A fire broke out at dawn of July 10 and quickly ripped through 57 Vietnamesehouseholds in Ruseykeo district, Phnom Penh.
The cause of the fire was identified as an electrical short-circuit in a houseowned by Sin Yin, a 63 year-old Vietnamese Cambodian. The fire spread to otherhouses in the neighbourhood due to their combustible building materials,requiring 32 firefighting vehicles to extinguish the blaze.
New look has been given to the devastated area just after four weeks as newhouses have been built on the former ground with more stable building materials.However, the impoverished Vietnamese there still have to encounter other toughchallenge when the water level of Mekong River is rising as the result of thecollapse of the Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam in Laos.-VNA
Representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy, the Khmer-Vietnamese Association and Vietnamese businesses in Cambodia on July 10 afternoon visited Vietnamese families in Phnom Penh affected by the blaze which took place early morning the same day.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) Tran Thanh Man sent his sympathies on July 11 to the Khmer-Vietnam Association in Cambodia and Vietnamese people in the country on the losses due to a fire in Russey Keo district of Phnom Penh one day earlier.
On July 13, financial aid and relief supplies from Vietnamese State agencies continued to reach those Cambodian and Vietnamese-Cambodian families recently affected by the blaze in Phnom Penh.
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A fire burnt 57 houses of Vietnamese expats to ground. (Photo: VNA) 
