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Taiwan donates 100,000 US dollars to China after quake
Apr 15, 2010, 15:21 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan's Red Cross on Thursday donated 100,000 US dollars to China to help survivors of a magnitude-7.1 earthquake there that killed more than 600 people.
Taiwan's Red Cross also said it was launching a fund-raising drive for quake relief and had offered to send a 30-member team of rescue and medical workers to China's north-western province of Qinghai, where the tremor hit Wednesday.
But the Chinese Red Cross declined the offer of the team, saying it did not need overseas help, Taiwan's Red Cross said.
On Wednesday, Taiwan's National Fire Agency announced it was ready to send a 23-member team to help in the search and rescue efforts, pending approval by China. China also declined that offer, saying it had adequate manpower to deal with the disaster so far.
Taipei also had offered to send a rescue team to China after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan three years ago, but Beijing said no and accepted only donations of cash and medical supplies.
Taiwan and China, which split at the end of a civil war in 1949, do not have official relations.
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