KATHMANDU \u2014 A humanitarian assistance package<\/a> from Singapore that was handed over to Nepal’s honorary consul general in Singapore Helen Campos on Sept 4, arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday (Sept 10).<\/p>\n The package, worth about $560,000, arrived on a Soekarno-Hatta International Airport-based My Indo Airlines freighter at about 8.15am (10.30am Singapore time).<\/p>\n Nepal’s Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Mahabir Pun was present to receive the package, symbolically handed over by Assistant Commissioner of Police Patrick Tan, who commands the 35-member Singapore contingent<\/a> assisting local authorities with post-disaster victim identification<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not much was said between the two men, based on the observations of AsiaOne photojournalist Rauf Khan.<\/p>\n But he captured a moment when the two men clasped both their hands tightly together, along with a nod and smile from both. \u00a0<\/p>\n According to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the package comprises humanitarian and emergency response supplies such as medical supplies, DNA test kits, and personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n It also includes specialised equipment that can be used to support ongoing search, recovery, and disaster victim identification efforts.<\/p>\n This tranche of humanitarian assistance is on top of the US$100,000 (S$127,000) contribution to the Singapore Red Cross’ public fundraising, which has raised about $4 million as of Sept 9.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, MFA’s Crisis Response Team, deployed since Aug 27 \u2014 a day after floods struck \u2014 is providing consular assistance for Singaporeans affected by he floods<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n A total of nine Singaporeans<\/a> are reported missing in an update provided by the Nepal Tourism Board on Aug 27.<\/p>\n As at 7pm on Sept 9, about 1,400 deaths have been reported, with more than 5,000 still missing.<\/p>\n [[nid:744785]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n KATHMANDU \u2014 A humanitarian assistance package from Singapore that was handed over to Nepal’s honorary consul general in Singapore Helen Campos on Sept 4, arrived…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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