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Over 10.3 million workers affected by COVID-19 received more than 1.09 billion USD in cash assistance from the unemployment insurance fund as of November 8.

Over 10.3 million workers affected by COVID-19 received more than 24.6 trillion VND (1.09 billion USD) in cash assistance from the unemployment insurance fund as of November 8, reported the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) on November 9.

So far, Hanoi authorities have help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 3.086 trillion VND (about 134.6 million USD), with over 2.69 trillion VND coming from the State budget.

Malaysian Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said on June 10 that the Government will do its best to curb the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that economic recovery will continue, starting from the second half of this year.

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An on November 4 presented 500 million VND (some 21,570 USD) to aid disaster-hit people in Vietnam’s central region.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Noh-Wan on October 29 handed over 300,000 USD in cash from the RoK government to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep to help flood-hit provinces in central Vietnam.

HCM City has basically completed the provision of financial assistance for those hit by COVID-19, according to Director of the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Minh Tan.

FIFA is about to release around 150 million USD to help its national associations, in cluding the Vietnam Football Federation, to offset losses caused by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Ho Chi Minh City’s economic growth in the first quarter was only 0.4 percentage points higher than in the same period last year, Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, told a recent online meeting.

The Indonesian government on April 9 announced a plan to support locals affected by the disruption of operations in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Vietnamese communities abroad have actively joined hands in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the homeland by contributing financial assistance, and medical supplies and equipment, according to Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs Luong Thanh Nghi.

Organisations and businesses nationwide have provided financial assistance for Vietnam’s fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

Thailand is on course for an economic recession in the first half of this year, with its 2020 GDP being forecast to decrease 0.3 percent from the previous 1.8 percent as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Siam Commercial Bank’s Economic Intelligence Centre (EIC).

Many newspapers of Ukraine have reported on the financial assistance of the Vietnamese community in the country for local victims of a fire in Odessa in December last year.

Three families of Vietnamese-Cambodians, whose houses were burnt down in a blaze in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district last year have received new houses.

In spite of being implemented in 2011, the Government-supported agriculture insurance programme which aims to protect farmers against losses of crops and livestock has so far failed to attract farmers due to high premium and complicated procedures.

HDBank was recently selected as Asia best service and Vietnam market leader in the “Trade Finance Survey 2019” by the English-language monthly magazine Euromoney.

The Vietnamese Government has decided to offer financial assistance to Bangladesh to help provide humanitarian aid for migrants from the Myanmar state of Rakhine.

Farmers who purchase agricultural machines of Tata International Vietnam Company Limited will be supported by the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank).

A conference to call for foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs)’ financial assistance in poor areas in the central province of Thanh Hoa took place in Hanoi on June 27.