Source: Taipei Times

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/01/09/2003218629

On January 9, 2005 the Taipei Times reported, "As a result of the coordination of a Taiwanese official in New York and a US congressman, Taiwan's shipping company, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, shipped the first of three containers of relief materials and supplies collected by a Buddhist temple in Queens, New York to Sri Lanka free of charge. Andrew Hsia, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Congressman Gary Ackerman, as well as officials from the borough of Queens and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp attended the donation and shipping ceremony of the relief supplies with volunteers, who donated clothes, food rations, drinking water, pharmaceuticals, batteries, toys and stationaries."