China sends $60m more to disaster victims

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- China will donate an another $60 million to South Asia's tsunami victims, Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday according to the official China Daily.

"The catastrophe not only hit the people in those countries, but also harmed human beings as a whole," Wen told diplomatic envoys from 10 countries surrounding the Indian Ocean and representatives of international organizations.

China would increase its aid for disaster relief by 500 million yuan or $60 million and it was ready to provide further aid, Wen said according to the China Daily report.

Being a victim of frequent natural disasters, China had received the humanitarian aid from friendly nations in the past, Wen said. "Chinese people could sense the same feeling as the people in those countries after the disaster," the China Daily quoted him as saying.