Government raises tsunami aid to E20m

THE Government has doubled the amount of aid pledged to those affected by the Asian tsunami to E20 million, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

Mr Ahern made the announcement at the end of a three country visit to the region hit hardest by the disaster.

Mr Ahern said he was donating an extra 10m from his department's Emergency Humanitarian Fund after seeing the devastation at first hand.