25 Apr 2007

Taiwan makes further donation to Solomons relief funds

9:58 am on 25 April 2007

Solomon Islands Prime Minister has thanked the government and people of Taiwan for an additional donation of more than 400 thousand US dollars for disaster relief.

In early April, Taiwan dispatched a medical service team to Western province to render medical services for a week and donated 200 kilograms of medical materials to the makeshift hospital in Gizo.

Taiwan Technical Mission and Taiwan's Navy Squadron both donated one thousand kilograms of rice and a hundred cartons of food to the Solomon Islands Red Cross Society

In addition, Taiwanese fishing company Yuh-Yow Fishery Co., Ltd sent its fishing boat to help transport relief personnel and materials to the affected areas in the Western Province.