Guangdong held charity show for tsunamis-hit areas

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Guangdong held charity show for tsunamis-hit areas
Latest Updated by 2005-01-07 17:07:58
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A large-scale Charity show co-presented by Guangdong's top media is held in Guangzhou last night (Jan. 6), and the enthusiastic crowd donated generously for the tsunamis-hit Asian countries.

The show brought together many China's top entertainers and arouse local public's attention. During the 3-hour show, Guangdong's famous corporate TCL and Gree donate 3 mln yuan and 1 mln yuan respectively, and the hot line received about 10000 calls from donors.

In the show, consulates of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia expressed their thank to people of China and Guangdong province.

Guangdong people's donation fever has shown no trace of ebbing, more and more departments and enterprises open their wallet for the disaster-hit areas. Up till yesterday morning, the provincial Red Across Society has received 7,200,000 yuan donations.



Another charity performance named \"Love is the world\", initiated by the famous Chinese film star Jackie Chan, will be held in Hong Kong this evening.

Last night, there was another charity show held in Beijing, in which China National Petroleum Corporation had donated more than 12.56 million yuan (US$1.5 million).

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By:Ouyang Yan Source:Newsgd.com