SICHUAN, China-On May 16, the Sichuan provincial government has confirmed that the death toll of the devastating earthquake has increased to 22,881. At a press conference, the governor of Sic...
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From Xinhua:At least 14 people were killed in an explosion after a bus and a tractor collided in east China's Zhejiang Province Saturday afternoon, local police said.The collision happened at about 1:54 p.m. in Yongzhong town, Longwan District of Wenzhou
Peter Harmsen reports in the Age:Locals have a simple answer for why the four-storey Juyuan Middle School collapsed during the China quake, killing hundreds of children, while nearby buildings stayed standing: greed."Look at the building materials they used," said one
Sportswriter Simon Barnes writes in The Times:"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed" -- Prince Philip, to Edinburgh University students in Beijing, 1986It seems that much of the Western world is united on the subject. The people
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Regarding tsunami of late 2004, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has summarized three ways that people used the Web in response to the disaster: 1) as a constantly updated source of news about the disaster; 2) as a way for
The second group of Japanese earthquake rescuers joined their colleagues working China Saturday morning and they left quake-hit Qingchuan County for Beichuan, another worst-hit county in Sichuan Province to continue rescue operations. ...
Forty-six seriously injured people need to be evacuated immediately in Beichuan county at the epicenter of the Sichuan quake, where the water level of a lake is rising rapidly and the lake may burst at any time, soldiers at the
Chinese military doctors rescued five students from the Republic of Korea in Wenchuan, the epicenter of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province and helicoptered them to the provincial capital of Chengdu Saturday morning. ...
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government sent a team of five staff from the Government Flying Service early Saturday morning to earthquake- devastated southwest China's Sichuan Province to provide assistance in the rescue ...
The UN's Chinese staff members made a first donation of over 30,000 U.S. dollars on Friday to the victims in China's earthquake-stricken regions. The contribution, largely in the form of personal checks, was presented by Xie Jiahui, ...
Chinese troops evacuated 18 scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) trapped in a forest in Mianzhu, a quake-hit area in southwest China's Sichuan province and escorted them to a safe place. The experts, among dozens of ...
There have been no major outbreaks of epidemics and other public health hazards in China's quake zone, the Ministry of Health said Saturday. The ministry said 34,000 medical workers and disease control staff were working in the quak ...
Profit for China's listed companies may grow 20 percent this year despite the strong quake that shook southwest China, according to a senior official with JPMorgan Chase. "The quake would have limited effect on the national GDP grow ...
As of 8 a.m. Saturday, 143 aftershocks measuring 4 or higher on the Richter scale had been monitored since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, China Seismological Bureau said on Saturday. ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao headed for Wenchuan County at the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake by road on Saturday morning, to direct the rescue and relief work there. Source:Xinhua ...
Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun conveyed his greetings on behalf of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday night to journalists reporting the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwest China ...
The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Public Security have sent a joint expert team to quake-stricken Sichuan province to help deal with bodies of the victims. The danger of an epidemic outbreak i
