Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/08
By: Emerson Lim and Ko Lin
Manila, Jan. 8 (CNA) Taiwan will provide humanitarian aid to the Philippines to help
Marawi City recover from a five-month armed conflict that ended late last year, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines said on Monday.
Collaborating with the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, the office will mount a relief effort that will include 10,780 tons of rice and 400 makeshift homes, Taiwan’s representative to the Philippines Gary Song-huann Lin (林松煥) said.
The batches of rice are expected to first arrive in the city of Iligan in Mindanao later this month, where local authorities will help with the logistics to distribute the aid to the people, Lin said. [FULL STORY]