03-06-2009 | 21:34:37
He asked the embassy to transfer the sum, raised at a charity gala of Vietnamese-Canadians, to ophthalmic centres in Vietnam to operate on poor and disadvantaged people with eye problems.
Ambassador Nguyen Duc Hung said that he would send the money to Vietnam as soon as possible and expressed his thanks to the overseas Vietnamese community in Canada for their charitable donations to alleviate the plight of unlucky people with visual impairments./.