BodewinTheSilent
01-05-2005, 10:01 AM
Schumacher gives $10 million in tsunami aid
BERLIN (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is to donate $10 million (5.3 million pounds to help the victims of the South Asian tsunami, his manager Willi Weber says.
The donation from Schumacher was announced by Weber on a German television fundraising drive that on Tuesday evening received more than 34 million euros in pledges.
"It's so unfathomable and horrible what happened to so many people," Schumacher, who turned 36 on Monday, said in comments on his website. "One cannot simply blind it out. We're suffering with them."
The official death toll from the Asian tsunami on December 26 has climbed to around 150,000, with millions left homeless, hungry and threatened by disease.
Schumacher, driving for Ferrari, won his seventh F1 world title last year.
Todt engaged to Michelle Yeoh
Ferrari team director Jean Todt and former Bondgirl Michelle Yeoh got engaged on Christmas Day, according to Thai press.
"We are happy together and that's the most important. Marriage is a possibility. Since we are happy, why not?" said 58-year-old Jean Todt.
During the Holidays, Todt visited Yeoh's parents in the Perak State, Malaysia.
Michelle Yeoh is a 42-year-old actress born in Malaysia that later moved to Hong Kong. She became famous as a spy in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is to donate $10 million (5.3 million pounds to help the victims of the South Asian tsunami, his manager Willi Weber says.
The donation from Schumacher was announced by Weber on a German television fundraising drive that on Tuesday evening received more than 34 million euros in pledges.
"It's so unfathomable and horrible what happened to so many people," Schumacher, who turned 36 on Monday, said in comments on his website. "One cannot simply blind it out. We're suffering with them."
The official death toll from the Asian tsunami on December 26 has climbed to around 150,000, with millions left homeless, hungry and threatened by disease.
Schumacher, driving for Ferrari, won his seventh F1 world title last year.
Todt engaged to Michelle Yeoh
Ferrari team director Jean Todt and former Bondgirl Michelle Yeoh got engaged on Christmas Day, according to Thai press.
"We are happy together and that's the most important. Marriage is a possibility. Since we are happy, why not?" said 58-year-old Jean Todt.
During the Holidays, Todt visited Yeoh's parents in the Perak State, Malaysia.
Michelle Yeoh is a 42-year-old actress born in Malaysia that later moved to Hong Kong. She became famous as a spy in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.