05.14.08
Chinese-Americans open wallets for quake relief
Margaret Tan, left, receives
contributions to a disaster relief,
fund at the Sing Tao Daily Chinese.
language newspaper offices in San
Francisco , Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Chinese communities around the
country are mobilizing to help
victims of the catastrophic
earthquake that has destroyed
countless buildings and killed
thousands of people in China’s
Sichuan province, where many
Chinese immigrants have roots
and family ties. After the
7.9-magnitude temblor struck
Monday, U.S. residents with ties to
the region anxiously sought news
about China’s worst earthquake in
three decades and tried to contact
friends and relatives by phone and
e-mail. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
It was after the earthquake that Chinese-Americans have decided to gather up together to collect some donations for the victims and begin contacting Red cross and other agencies or organizations that can also be of support.
One of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in U.S. which is Sing Tao Daily has been publishing eight pages of news paper since the tragedy. They would want to be of help to the victims that’s why they had built their disaster relief fund that could help accumulate contributions from the readers of the newspaper around the world.