Overseas Chinese donate $163m
By Zhang Haizhou | China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-03 07:44
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A girl hands her donation for victims of the Sichuan quake to a fundraising volunteer in Tsukuba, Japan, on Sunday. Chinese students studying at the University of Tsukuba have collected 12 million yen ($114,345) to aid quake relief work since May 12. Xinhua |
Overseas Chinese had donated about 1.13 billion yuan ($163.4 million) worth of funds and relief supplies for victims of the May 12 Sichuan quake as of Sunday, an official of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) has said.
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