Japan Red Cross commits to disaster risk reduction project
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Viet Nam News, Vietnam News Agency
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Japanese Red Cross has decided to to help a Viet Nam Red Cross mangrove and disaster risk reduction project until 2015 by giving US$2.76 million, reports Viet Nam News. Local Red Cross deputy chairman Phung Van Hoan declared that the project aimed to support 346 vulnerable communes in eight northernmost coastal provinces and 10 communes of two extended mountainous provinces.