Typhoon Haiyan

[huumlaar]

$200K? Fuck all, some mates of mine, and they are all in large companies who have backed their ideas, without even seeing if there's a tax break or PR angle may I add, have already started sending over $200K of equipment and transponder costs. That's just a few blokes in some large companies who know when to do the right thing, and the companies agree, and you won't see their name in the press either, it's straight up humanitarian aid,

 

By the way, anyone notice all the "collections' for "AID" to the PI's from various companies etc in Bangkok, I have to wonder how much gets to the end users!

 

I remember the Tsunami in Thailand, Medicine without frontiers stopped their ad campaign asking for collections fairly quickly, once they had all they needed and even returned donations that where specific to the Tsunami, the Red Cross meanwhile collected donations for years after.

[baa99]

http://www.news.com.au/world/australians-margaret-warriner-and-kevin-lee-die-in-typhoon-haiyan/story-fndir2ev-1226761668632

 

A SECOND Australian has died in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, which levelled towns and killed thousands.

 

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed an elderly Australian woman died in the days after the typhoon devastated the region on November 8.

 

 

The victim is reported to be former Bendigo resident Margaret Warriner and that she most likely suffered a stroke or heart attack.

 

The woman's death comes days after DFAT confirmed the first Australian casualty, Sydney man and former priest Kevin Lee.

 

 

Substantial food and medical aid has finally begun reaching desperate survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, but humanitarian groups warn of huge logistic challenges in accessing devastated, remote island communities.

 

The unprecedented ferocity of the November 8 storm and the scale of destruction had overwhelmed the initial relief effort, leaving millions in the worst-hit central islands of Leyte and Samar hurt, homeless and hungry, with no power or water.

 

Eight days later, a working aid pipeline is in place, funnelling emergency supplies to those left destitute in the ruins of Leyte's Tacloban city, while helicopters flying off the aircraft carrier USS George Washington brought some relief to outlying areas.

 

UN agencies on Saturday said more than 170,000 people had received rice rations or food packets, while the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Médecins Sans Frontières) said they would have mobile surgical units in Tacloban by the end of the weekend.

[unit731]

The viewers of one tele show are more generous then the country of China?

 

 

"It started for Stephen Colbert when he learned the nation of China had only donated $100,000 so far to the Philippines typhoon relief effort.

 

That's where the Colbert Nation comes in hitting one $100,000 and topping China's donation by late afternoon Friday."

 

LINK

[Flashermac]

China ready to send rescue teams to Philippines

 

 

BEIJING - China said Sunday it is ready to send rescue and medical teams to the Philippines, in a belated offer coming more than a week after a devastating typhoon struck the island nation.

 

The proposal made in a statement on the Foreign Ministry’s website follows an extremely modest pledge of less than $2 million in disaster assistance made last week.

 

The small offering has been attributed to spite over a festering dispute with Manila over South China Sea islands claimed by both sides. China, which has the world’s second largest economy, claims the entire sea and its island groups and has been enraged by Manila’s robust defense of what it says has long been Philippine territory.

 

Views expressed on the Chinese Internet have argued strongly against aiding the Philippines, despite the potential damage to China’s hopes of being regarded as a responsible regional and possibly global leader.

 

In the statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei was quoted as saying Saturday that China was monitoring conditions in the Philippines and the emergency teams would depart for the hardest hit areas "should conditions permit."

 

There was no immediate indication whether the aid teams were preparing to depart or whether the Philippine government had accepted the Chinese offer.

 

 

http://www.nationmul...s-30219825.html

[cavanami]

Farkin China, if there is nothing to be had, they are not going to give...it's all about China!

 

Hope that they have lost BIG face...cheap cnuts!!!