Vietnam will provide 225 billion VND(12.6 million USD) and 10,000 tonnes of rice to central and CentralHighlands provinces to help them overcome the consequences of TyphoonMirinae.

According to decision No. 1779/QD-TTg dated November 4, beneficiarieswill be Binh Dinh province, which will receive 70 billion VND and 3,000tonnes of rice; Phu Yen province, 100 billion VND and 4,000 tonnes ofrice; Khanh Hoa province, 20 billion VND and 1,000 tonnes of rice; NinhThuan province, 5 billion VND; and Gia Lai province, 30 billion VND and2,000 tonnes of rice.

The decision said that financial support is expected to help localpeople resume agricultural production, repair damaged infrastructureand prevent diseases.

On November 4, the Vietnam Red Cross gave a relief aid package worth600 million VND in kind to storm-hit families in Phu Yen, Binh Dinh,Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan provinces. It also provided two million VND toeach victim’s family.

The Japan Tobacco International (JTI), on the same day, providedfunding to the Vietnam Red Cross to build flood-resistant houses forhouseholds in flood-prone areas. The funding is part of JTI’sthree-year plan to build 100 houses of this kind in Vietnam.

Statistics from the Central Steering Committee on Flood and StormPrevention and Control showed that Typhoon Mirinae, the 11th storm tohit Vietnam so far this year, killed at least 116 people after itslammed into Vietnam’s central coastal provinces on November 2. Phu Yenprovince is the hardest-hit with 69 fatalities./.