Since early October, Yayasan Nanyang Press had donated approximately RM150, 000 for Thailand Flood Relief. The manager of Yayasan Nanyang Press, Miss Khor Yuyin, together with Ireen Ong and the reporters of China Press expressed great concern about this disaster and had donated supplies and resources to the affected victims without any hesitation. Miss Khor Yuyin claimed that due to urgency, she had used the fund of RM100, 000 from Yayasn Nanyang Press to purchase supplies and resources without first calling for donation.

“It would be too late to supply foods and clean water after calling for donation. Instead, we should save the victims immediately,” told by the manager of Yayasan Nanyang Press.

Even though a large amount of donations had been used to purchase supplies and resources such as rice, eggs and clean water for the victims, those were insufficient as the numbers of affected victims were increasing day by day. Ireen Ong informed that the current approach is to purchase more buckets to place clean water. Hygienic and water-borne diseases are the major problem now as the victims do not have access to clean water. The reporters of China Press narrated that the whole country was almost submerged in filthy water. During the days in Thailand to do live reports, their major concern was to get clean water from anywhere. Thus, donations are appreciable in helping the Thai victims to get clean water and subsequently, to ensure no water-borne disease outbreak.

Yayasan Nanyang Press works together with China Press, Nanyang Siang Pau, Life Magazines, China Press Charity, ntv7，8TV, 马来西亚华人艺人公会， 家娛astro 304， 余希远老师歌智修学会 ，Pearl International hotel，Glitterama Charity Group， One FM，i3Stage, Sushi King, 988, 101 Apple, Vajrayana Buddhist Council of Malaysia, the Buddhist Society of KDU and other Universities to raise fund for Thailand Flood Relief. With the help of the local temples such as Wat Duang Kae (Bangkok), Wat Tammapayaram (Nakhom Pathom) and Wat Pai Thong (Bangpama, Suphanburi), Yayasan Nanyang Press managed to distribute supplies and resources such as rice, eggs, canned foods, medicines, women’s sanitary pads, clean water and baby’s milk powders to the affected victims. To date, Yayasan Nanyang Press managed to deliver daily meals and clean water to more than 3000 victims who were located at four different areas; those areas are Nakhom Pathom, Suphanburi and two more in Bangkok. Yayasan Nanyang Press too had set up a rescue team which made up by approximately 60 local volunteers, whom they continuously sending resources and supplies to the victims. Additionally, Yayasan Nanyang Press imported 23 raft boats from China for the purpose of distributing supplies and resources to the victims. 3000 boots had been specially imported from China to protect the Yayasan Nanyang Press volunteers and victims from the long hours of exposure to the filthy water which might make them vulnerable to any skin diseases.

Unfortunately, this devastating flood would be last for months. The flood water has swamped two-thirds of the country and now is moving towards Bangkok, the heart of Thailand. The water from Chao Phraya River has spilled over its banks, forcing water into riverside streets from Chinatown to the while-walled royal Grand Palace and also the nearby temples, namely the Temple of Reclining Buddha and the Temple of Emerald Buddha. The treasured Grand Palace, where once housed the Thai Kings, was submerged in the flood water. The army was busy pumping out ankle-deep water from the Grand Palace so that tourists could still enter into the white-walled compound, whilst the rest of the army stood guarding the Grand Palace with sandbags. The Thai Buddhist Monks too involved in flood relief. They protected the temples from being further swamped by the flood water. Everyone in Bangkok played their parts in safeguarding their country.

The famous Chinatown, located not far from the palace, too was badly affected. Great concern grew as the flood water creeping more and more into the area of Chinatown. The fear was that the flood water could reach the commercial center of the city, resulting in more damages. The people in Chinatown had tried their best to allocate more sandbags around the shop fronts but it was useless; the water level continued to rise. It was a chaos in Bangkok. The flooding had greatly interrupted the economic growth of Thailand. Most of the shops in Chinatown were closed and those tourist attractions were quiet. The Thai victims were facing great difficulty in looking for foods as the markets were closed and any essential foods in the supermarkets were emptied as a result of the people stocking up their foods. The Thai victims are lack of foods and clean waters; donations are needed to help them out. Sadly, some shop owners, knowing that there were lack of supplies and resources, increased the retail price of their goods in order to earn more. There were taxi drivers too whom they offered higher prices as transportation was very important at the moment. The reporters of China Press were temperamental seeing those ungrateful persons trying to earn extra in this distressing time.

No one knows that when this disaster would end. The only thing that everyone can do is to donate and help the affected victims. Hereby, Yayasan Nanyang Press urges each and everyone to donate generously and help the Thai victims to overcome this devastating flood.