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International concert for tsunami aid

AFP, Bangkok
A star-studded cast of US and Asian pop stars will perform in aconcert to raise donations for Asian tsunami victims, music video broadcaster MTVNetworksAsiasaidWednesday.
Americans Alicia Keys and Kelly Clarkson, Taiwanese rhythm and blues singer Jay Chou and Thailand's Tata Young arc among the lineup for tlie "Asia Aid" show in BangkokorrFebruary3.
A taped performance by Jennifer Lopez as well as recorded messages from US rapper 50 Cent, Irish crooner Ronan Keating and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi will also feature in the MTV show, which aims to garner contributions from its audience of more than400 million households.
Viewers will be able to send in their donations via mobile phone text messagesand the MTV website.
MTV announced earlier this
month it would turn its annual awards extravaganza, to be held in Bangkok, into a global benefit for tsunami victims called MTV Asia Aid.
"It's a way young people around the world can become engaged and help in the rebuilding effort as we found a lot of young people really wanted to help but didn't know how to go about it." MTV Networks Asin president Frank Brown told AFP Wednesday.
"The music industry at large also immediately understood that this could be a vehicle for them to bring attention to the need for aid in the recovery effort, so they were very supportive, ” he said.
Thai pop superstar Tua Young told AFP she had thrown her full support behind the event as she had travelled to the south on the day of the disaster to comfort her best friend, whose father had been killed
by the tsunami.
"It was crazy, everything was torn. It was a picture that you don't want to remember, but you have to remember all the losses and the little children who have lost their parents and who now need our help," said thesinger.
Most of the proceeds will be given to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), with donations collected in Thailand and India going to their respective government-linked funds.
The programme will air on all of MTV's global channels, but the network is also allowing international broadcasters to air it for free.
"MTV Asia Aid will help to maintain the world's attention on the devastation and loss that the tsunami has caused for millions of people," UNICEF deputy regional director Richard Bridle said in a statement