No special quake compensation for Chinese families - Key

萨米

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Chinese parents who lost their only child in last month's Christchurch earthquake will not be getting special compensation, Prime Minister John Key says.

The Chinese Embassy asked for compensation to Chinese families who lost children in last month's Christchurch earthquake.

Because of China's one child policy New Zealand should make special arrangements for added economic assistance, on top of provisions like ACC, Chinese Embassy disaster relief head Cheng Lei said.

So far, seven Chinese students have been identified as killed in last month's earthquake, and more than 20 are missing.

About 70 foreign students were enrolled at the Kings English Language School in the destroyed Canterbury TV building.

Mr Lei said there was a notable difference between Chinese families and other foreign families, which needed to be taken into consideration when providing compensation to families who lost their only child.

"You can expect how lonely, how desperate they are... not only from losing loved ones, but losing almost entirely the major source of economic assistance after retirement," he told Radio New Zealand.

Mr Key said he felt for those families.

"Our greatest sympathy goes to those families... we have a policy under ACC that applies to international citizens as much as it does to locals," he told reporters this afternoon.

Apart from ACC many of the students had insurance.

"The Government's made it clear it will help in terms of repatriation of bodies and helping families so outside of that, at this stage we don't have any intention to make any other changes."

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce earlier also ruled out compensation saying it was difficult under New Zealand's legal framework.

Labour leader Phil Goff said diverse countries' citizens could not be treated differently.
"You can't base your policy on that. There may be many students here who are only children in their families whether they be Chinese Japan, Thai, Filipino. You can't make a decision premised on that."

catchan

Because of this stupid request, I am thinking maybe it's worth to apply for NZ citizen....what a shame of being chinese

catchan

不要让你作为中国人的骄傲受到影响。

只是对我们个别的中国外交家的水平感到失望。
选择新西兰 发表于 2011-3-14 22:41

說得好!!

Eyeport

It's a shame.

amj

站着说话不腰疼

flamestar

没明白怎么就shame了呢？ 你去给那些父母养老？

觉得做中国人丢脸，盼着早点投胎~

临睡觉了被TM恶心了一下，我手贱

miaomeow

给公民养老本来就是政府的事情，怎么中国政府说得就好象，养老全是唯一一个孩子的责任一样。就是他们的Shame，你政府整天宣传GDP超过日本还要超过美国，你这些钱都去哪里了？你怎么不好好弄一下国内的公共福利呢？

而且独生子女政策，全世界只有中国有，你不能用自己的错误来让别的国家承担责任。
我觉得John Key说得没错，所有国家的人赔偿都是一样的，凭什么你中国人就给多一些赔偿，人没了大家都伤心，但是我觉得中国大使馆这个时候提出的这个要求，太SB了，我为自己是一个中国人感到很惭愧

闲人莫入

Because of this stupid request, I am thinking maybe it's worth to apply for NZ citizen....what a shame of being chinese
catchan 发表于 14-3-2011 21:37

well if you have that thought in mind, you should be shamed of being a person.

catchan

给公民养老本来就是政府的事情，怎么中国政府说得就好象，养老全是唯一一个孩子的责任一样。就是他们的Shame，你政府整天宣传GDP超过日本还要超过美国，你这些钱都去哪里了？你怎么不好好弄一下国内的公共福利呢？
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miaomeow 发表于1 2011-3-15 04:27

同意, 說出了我的心聲

Ardell假睫毛

well if you have that thought in mind, you should be shamed of being a person.
闲人莫入 发表于 2011-3-15 05:21

Why is that? It doesn't even make sense.

flowernec

天灾人难发生了，只能节哀顺便了，如果家里都给孩子上了保险，是不是会好一点

hungugu

没明白怎么就shame了呢？ 你去给那些父母养老？

觉得做中国人丢脸，盼着早点投胎~

临睡觉了被TM恶心了一下，我手贱
flamestar 发表于 2011-3-14 23:37

你不去给那些父母养老难道就要纽西兰纳税人去给那些父母养老？

这是中国政府的问题，中国只不过在告诉大家：在我们国家，政府不管公民生老病死；你们只能养儿防老，而且只能生一个，死了算你倒霉。

萨米

你不去给那些父母养老难道就要纽西兰纳税人去给那些父母养老？

这是中国政府的问题，中国只不过在告诉大家：在我们国家，政府不管公民生老病死；你们只能养儿防老，而且只能生一个，死了算你倒霉。
hungugu 发表于 2011-3-15 14:29

what a sad truth...

flamestar

我宁可把交的税给他们养老，也不想给这儿毛毛 岛人和个别的游手好闲的同胞。

现在这个大使是水平低了点，不过LS说的“在我们国家，政府不管公民生老病死；你们只能养儿防老，而且只能生一个，死了算你倒霉。”倒是蛮能联想的。。。我是没听出来这种画外音。

好好的孩子送你这来，就被这么送走了，别说要钱，就说要求钥匙磕个头都不觉得多。