Philippines typhoon death toll at 4,460: UN[3]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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Homeless relatives of hotel employees occupy a bungalow on the partly damaged Leyte Park Hotel as fallen trees damaged by super typhoon Haiyan are seen, in Tacloban, November 14, 2013. Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a US aircraft carrier "strike group" a ...

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aria1117

at least these people stood in line. Here in Kunming I don't see anybody line up!

GhostBuster

To aria1117

What did you saw in Kunming? Please elaborate.

Saying something without reference is being less than responsible.

DF21d

In previous natural disasters, many countries made generous pledges but did not honour their pledges. Will history repeat itself?

'During the early period of the response to the tsunami (caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake), concerns were voiced in various quarters that the international relief effort might falter if nations did not honour their initial pledges. On 3 January 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged donor nations to ensure that their pledges were fully honoured, pointing to previous cases where "we got lots of pledges, but we did not receive all the money".

On 5 January, as countries jockeyed to make large donations, Jan Egeland said, "I'd rather see competitive compassion than no compassion", adding that too many countries were making pledges without any guarantee that the funds would arrive.' (Wikipedia)

Sometime after each natural disaster, the UN should disclose the amount actually delivered by each donor country together with the amount they pledged and publish it in international newspapers.

kowalski

LoonDeQuanRen Post time: 2013-11-17 18:10
US led Anglo sphere is very GOOD at that .............Pledging but no substance.........talk is chea ...

The Anglo is a liar at heart!

monica1009

Wish golden sunshine to all place with disaster