The fund gave away 449 Lawrence S.Ting Scholarships worth VND3.71 million each.
The Taiwanese property firm Phu My Hung Corporation, which the late Lawrence S.Ting founded, gave VND500 million each to the HCM City Association for Support of Poor Patients, the Viet Nam Child Protection Fund, the HCM City Association for Protection of Disabled People and Orphan Children.
It gave a further VND200 million to the Vu A Dinh Fund which provides scholarships, and VND300 million to the HCM City Fatherland Front Committee's Fund for the Poor.
It also donated smaller sums to the Study Encouragement Societies in HCM City, Ha Noi, and 61 provinces.
Study Encouragement Societies in HCM City's Districts 7, 8, Nha Be, and Binh Chanh each got VND100 million.
On the previous day, Mo Cay Bac District in Ben Tre Province inaugurated a medical facility worth VND3.5 billion (US$180,000) donated by the two.
The clinic in Tan Thanh Binh Commune has a diagnostic centre, emergency, pediatric, obstetrics, and traditional medicine wards, and a garden to grow medicinal herbs. — VNS
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