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Kiwis Offer Free Accomodation To Traumatised Malaysians
By Ahmad Shukran Shaharudin
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) - Thousands of New Zealanders are offering assistance, including free accommodation and transportation, to survivors of the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck Christchurch in South Island on Tuesday.
The transportation assistance includes ferry service and airport pick-up.
Malaysian student Khairul Anuar Kamaruddin, 36, a post-graduate accounting student with Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), said he found more than 2,400 free accommodations from Bluff to Auckland being offered to the affected Chirstchurch people on the internet.
He said the assistance was also for the benefit of tourists and emergency personnel.
"I am really impressed with what the Kiwis are doing," he said in an e-mail to Bernama here Sunday.
Meanwhile, 'Spencer on the Byron Hotel' spokesman Carl Corbett said his company offered assistance, including paying for hotel accomodation to cash-strapped traumatised Malaysians needing temporary transit accomodation before departing for home.
"This offer is for individuals, couple or students, or small families who can be accommodated together in a single one bedroom suite at the hotel on the Auckland's North Shore's Takapuna Beach," he said.
"My company offers hotel accommodation for up to three to five days in a single one bedroom suite at the hotel," he said. His company is also a telecom services exporter with operations in Malaysia.
Corbett said the offer was open for two weeks from Sunday, or until the Malaysian Ops (operations) Centre in Christchurch or the New Zealand Welfare Centre took over the responsibilities.
The company would also arrange for "return transfers" from the Auckland International Airport to the hotel to traumatised Malaysians who took up this offer, he added.
Corbett said: "This is our way of returning the goodwill extended to us in the past during our own business travels and operations in Malaysia."
He said funds allocated for this assistance, if not taken up by Malaysians, would be donated to the Red Cross.
Corbett can be contacted at tel: 064-09-488 9300 or 064-21-503034 after office hours.
Meanwhile, Malaysian High Commission in New Zealand First Secretary Nor Ayuni Zainal welcomed such moves, especially in these difficult times and suggested, Malaysians needing a break from Christchurch to take up the offer to stay in Auckland.
The quake is the deadliest to hit New Zealand since a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 256 people in the Hawke's Bay region in 1931.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) - Thousands of New Zealanders are offering assistance, including free accommodation and transportation, to survivors of the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck Christchurch in South Island on Tuesday.
The transportation assistance includes ferry service and airport pick-up.
Malaysian student Khairul Anuar Kamaruddin, 36, a post-graduate accounting student with Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), said he found more than 2,400 free accommodations from Bluff to Auckland being offered to the affected Chirstchurch people on the internet.
He said the assistance was also for the benefit of tourists and emergency personnel.
"I am really impressed with what the Kiwis are doing," he said in an e-mail to Bernama here Sunday.
Meanwhile, 'Spencer on the Byron Hotel' spokesman Carl Corbett said his company offered assistance, including paying for hotel accomodation to cash-strapped traumatised Malaysians needing temporary transit accomodation before departing for home.
"This offer is for individuals, couple or students, or small families who can be accommodated together in a single one bedroom suite at the hotel on the Auckland's North Shore's Takapuna Beach," he said.
"My company offers hotel accommodation for up to three to five days in a single one bedroom suite at the hotel," he said. His company is also a telecom services exporter with operations in Malaysia.
Corbett said the offer was open for two weeks from Sunday, or until the Malaysian Ops (operations) Centre in Christchurch or the New Zealand Welfare Centre took over the responsibilities.
The company would also arrange for "return transfers" from the Auckland International Airport to the hotel to traumatised Malaysians who took up this offer, he added.
Corbett said: "This is our way of returning the goodwill extended to us in the past during our own business travels and operations in Malaysia."
He said funds allocated for this assistance, if not taken up by Malaysians, would be donated to the Red Cross.
Corbett can be contacted at tel: 064-09-488 9300 or 064-21-503034 after office hours.
Meanwhile, Malaysian High Commission in New Zealand First Secretary Nor Ayuni Zainal welcomed such moves, especially in these difficult times and suggested, Malaysians needing a break from Christchurch to take up the offer to stay in Auckland.
The quake is the deadliest to hit New Zealand since a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 256 people in the Hawke's Bay region in 1931.
