VIETNAMESE philanthropist Johnathan Hanh Nguyen on Wednesday donated over 750,000 face masks and 16,500 personal protective equipment (PPE) sets to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to help protect the agency’s frontliners against the coronavirus disease 2019.

The DFA said Nguyen, chairman and founder of IMEX Pan Pacific Group (IPPG), was instrumental in establishing the first direct flight between Ho Chi Minh and Manila in 1985.