Actress Ziyi Zhang was left enraged during her visit to France's Cannes Film Festival, when she encountered a group of people who knew nothing about the recent Chinese earthquake, which has devastated her native country. The Memoirs of a Geisha star turned her trip to Cannes into a fundraising mission in a bid to raise money to help the victims of the quake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale when it struck China earlier this month . She even made a pamphlet about the natural disaster, which has left almost 60,000 dead and more than five million homeless. Zhang has made a personal donation of $144,000 (£72,000) to help the relief efforts, and has also secured a $100,000 (£50,000) pledge from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng, who was born in China. But the 29-year-old was shocked when she came across a group of festival-goers who were ignorant of world events. Recalling the meeting, she says, "I was as angry as a madwoman. I said, 'Are you idiots? You are well-dressed people who look like you identify with society, but you don't know what's going on on planet Earth.' It's incredible!"
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