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HCM City extends helping hand to the poor in Cambodia

A delegation of the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City provided free health checks and medicines along with gifts to needy people in the Cambodian province of Battambang on April 25.
HCM City extends helping hand to the poor in Cambodia ảnh 1Vietnamese Consul General to Battambang Le Tuan Khanh presents gifts to needy people in the Cambodian province on April 25 (Photo: VNA)

Phnom Penh (VNA) – A delegationof the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City providedfree health checks and medicines along with gifts to needy people in the Cambodianprovince of Battambang on April 25.

The activity, which wasconducted in Battambang city in coordination with the Vietnamese General Consulatein Cambodia’s Battambang province, benefited around 500 overseas Vietnamese andCambodians.

The charity trip in Cambodia isan annual task assigned by the HCM City People’s Committee to the municipal Committeefor Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, out of the care for overseas Vietnamese andCambodians in disadvantaged circumstances in Cambodia.

The delegation took the occasionof the working trip to inform local overseas Vietnamese on the latest policiesof the Vietnamese Party and State on overseas Vietnamese, and to cement thefriendship between Vietnamese and Cambodians.-VNA
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