INTERNATIONAL: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has announced on Wednesday ,March 2, that she, Vice President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang will each donate one month's salary to aid humanitarian relief efforts for Ukraine as it seeks to repel an invasion by Russia.

The Foreign Ministry will provide details of a bank account set up by Taiwan's Relieve Disaster Association for Ukraine into which Tsai has said she, Lai and Su will each donate their salary. A person familiar with the situation has mentioned that Tsai as president receives around $14,250 a month in pay.

The war has generated widespread sympathy in Taiwan for Ukraine's people, due to the threat the island says it faces on a daily basis from giant neighbour China. Beijing views Taiwan as its own territory and has stepped up its military pressure to assert those claims.

Tsai, whose government this week sent its first batch of aid in the form of 27 tonnes of medical supplies, has told a meeting of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party that the determination of Ukraine's people has moved the world and Taiwan's people too.