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Thai PM invites public donations to assist quake victims in Nepal

BANGKOK, April 28 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha invites people to make financial or material donations through all channels to assist quake victims in Nepal. The Thai prime minister told journalists on Tuesday that he has ordered all agencies in all sectors to open for public donations through all channels to assist Nepal's quake victims, saying that the public donations, worth about 127 million baht, have already been gathered so far. The Thai premier invited the public to further donate money or necessities to quake-stricken Nepal via TV stations, local administrative organisations and the Interior Ministry's Damrongdhama centres nationwide. According to the prime minister, the Thai government has initially donated 200,000 US dollars to Nepal, along with having dispatched medical teams, food, clothes and other necessities to the land-locked Himalayan nation. The Thai prime minister noted that his government also plans to send a team of forensic officials to support identification verifications of quake victims in Nepal, while having instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to accelerate providing assistance to dozens of Thai nationals in Nepal through the Thai Embassy and Thai Consulates in the South Asian nation. The Thai leader also expressed his condolences to the family of a half Thai-American female doctor who was killed in last Saturday's 7.9-magnitude quake in Nepal. Meanwhile, the Thai government is scheduled to host a live program on army-run TV Channel 5 on Tuesday evening, from 8pm-10.40pm, to raise more donations to quake victims in Nepal. Minister Attached to the Prime Minister's Office ML Panadda Diskul told reporters that the Thai government has opened an account with state-run Krung Thai Bank’s Government House Branch to receive public donations, while the Ministry of Commerce is sending rice to affected people in Nepal and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is also receiving public donations from April 28-May 15 for the same purpose. Death toll from the disastrous earthquake on April 25, the worst over the past 80 years, in Nepal, has risen to over 4,000 so far and the number of injured victims has exceeded 6,000. (TNA)

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