INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Taiwan will donate $1 million to Afghan earthquake relief efforts in response to a call from the United Nations and others for humanitarian
assistance, the government said late on Thursday.Taiwan&s presidential office said in a statement that the government would donate &based on
the spirit of humanitarian care for disaster relief regardless of national borders (and) responding to the United Nations and other
humanitarian calls,& Reuters reported.However Taiwan will not send search and rescue teams after consulting with other countries and
considering the difficulty of transportation, office spokesman Xavier Chang added.Taiwan also lies in a quake-prone zone and regularly sends
rescue teams to other disaster areas around the world.China meanwhile has said it stands ready to provide Afghanistan aid, and on Friday its
foreign ministry said that it is &stepping up efforts& to collect cash, tents, bed quilts and other humanitarian aid to deliver to
Afghanistan as soon as possible, but did not offer details of the size of the aid package.Around 1,000 people are already confirmed dead
from the quake in a remote part of the country this week.Earlier, the European Union announced 1 million euros for the earthquake relief
efforts in Afghanistan.
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