China's Red Cross Opens Village For Tsunami Victims

An opening ceremony for the China-Sri Lanka Friendship Village was held yesterday in Walahanduwa, about 144 km south of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to house the displaced and the homeless due to last year's tsunami.

People's Daily reports that Jiang Yiman, executive vice president of Red Cross Society of China, said "all the Chinese people across the country have shown great care and much concern about the people in the tsunami-hit areas in Sri Lanka after the suddenly occurred tsunami which brought tremendous disasters to the people of Sri Lanka, causing great losses for people's lives and belongings".