China offers humanitarian aid to quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises to 74

2011-03-27 00:47:37 GMT+7 (ICT)

BEIJING (BNO NEWS) -- China on Saturday announced an emergency humanitarian aid of 500,000 U.S. dollars in cash to quake-stricken Myanmar, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website that the aid was extended to help Myanmar's disaster relief efforts and post-quake reconstruction.

Relief operations were launched Saturday extensively in the northeastern part of the country after a 7.0-magnitude quake killed at least 74 people and injured 111 with the toll still rising, according to Myanmar state-run media.

The 7.0-magnitude earthquake at 8.25 p.m. local time (1355 GMT) was centered near the village of Loi Mwe in Shan state of Myanmar, about 89 kilometers (55 miles) north of Chiang Rai in Thailand and 168 kilometers (104 miles) south-southwest of Yunjinghong in China. It struck about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH).

The extent of the damage and casualties was still unclear on Friday afternoon, but state-run media reported that a total of 224 houses, six apartment blocks, 11 monasteries and nine government buildings were destroyed.

Thursday's earthquake was the first significant earthquake to have hit the country since September 21, 2003 when a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar. The earthquake caused no fatalities.

-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2011-03-27

and Thailand the closes neighbor is doing what?

Well they sent aid, and Thailand does have thousands of Burmese and Hill tribe refugees.

You should check it out yourself instead of complaining about what others do.

What does number of refugees have to do with sending aid? And could you kindly post link/ source that Thailand sent any aid at all?

You also may want to search back and see what aid Thailand gave Burma last time in proportion to tragedy.

Better yet see the amount Thailand offered to japan