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Jet Li One Foundation

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Alfred Hsing started a fund within the One Foundation. It all starts with even a small contribution. Please message Alfred Hsing if you make a donation through me so that it goes towards our fund. http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/en/beneficence_01.htm Account Name:Red Cross Society of China (need to remark "Donation for Jet Li One Foundation Project") Bank address:China CITIC Bank Beijing Jiuxianqiao Sub-branch Account number:7112111482600000209 Address: C&W Tower. No.14, Jiuxianqiao Street, Chaoyang District,Beijing, China Zip Code: 100016 Swift Code:CIBKCNBJ100

Global community helps Russia to fight fires

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Global community helps Russia to fight fires Tags: World , Russia , peat fires , Society , Commentary , forest fires 17.08.2010, 14:10 Unprecedented forest fires that quickly spread over Central Russia during this summer's record heat wave have urged people from all over the world to help Russia fighting this natural disaster. The US embassy in Moscow has provided humanitarian aid worth $50,000 to the victims of the fires. Besides that several US planes delivered firefighting equipment to Russia. The anti-fire department of Lithuania's Interior Ministry has sent a pumping unit, respiratory masks and other anti-fire equipment. Azerbaijan has provided Mi-17 and Ka-32a helicopters. Serbia has sent to Russia its experienced firemen and rescuers. "We want to help the Russian people who are now facing the most serious natural disaster over the last 50 years" - Predrag Maric, head of the emergency situation department of Serbia's Interior...

Waste land ... rotting oranges stretch to the horizon in California

Shocking images: a waste no knows boundaries Rotten waste And food chucked away in households in this country alone could feed 113million people. Sainsbury's send an estimated 60,000 tons of food waste to landfill sites each year. His investigation discovered: 30 per cent of potatoes - nearly one in every three that are sold - are discarded in Britain. British farms and processors produce just under one million tons of potato waste each year - or one sixth of the national supply of spuds. Meanwhile, households waste another 358,000 tons. Between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of all fish caught around Europe are thrown back into the sea. Greenpeace estimates that of the 186million fish caught in UK waters 117million are thrown back dead - many because they are too small, the wrong species or part of a quota the fishermen are not allowed to land. There are 900million malnourished people in the world. All of them could be lifted out of hunger with a fraction of the food wasted. "...