Yingluck accepts donations

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2011
Yingluck accepts donations

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday received funds and aid items from China, South Korea, Hungary as well as other public and private organisations at the Energy Ministry in Bangkok.

Chinese Ambassador Guan Mu presented 685 boats, 500 three-inch water pumps, 70 four-inch pumps, and 20 eight-inch pumps, while South Korean Ambassador Lim Jae-hong presented three water filters, 100 boxes of drinking water, 200 tents and 10,000 cans of food. Hungarian Ambassador Denes Tomaj presented a set of medical tools, while Yanmar S P and Yanmar Co presented 35 diesel engines to connect to water pumps and Bt1 million in cash. The Thai-Chinese Business Association donated Bt5 million, while the Thai community living in Illinois sent Bt102,000. Yingluck later met with evacuees at the Hua Mark Stadium who presented her with T-shirts and paintings to be sold under the “More Help More Hope” project.