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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Chinese soldiers dug out a 52-year old man from the ruins in Beichuan county, Sichuan Province, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 117 hours after he was buried underneath collapsed buildings by the May 12 earthquake. The man identified as Ji ...
Zhao Fugui, a villager from the Beichuan county of Sichuan, was saved after being buried for 119 hours following the catastrophic earthquake. The 69-year-old man from Dazhu village of Beichuan was rescued by firefighters from the Ni ...
A helicopter took off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Chengdu, the capital of quake-hit southwestern Sichuan Province, to evacuate 14 Taiwan tourists from a village between Wenchuan county and Dujiangyan city. They were reported as the las ...
President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) Stephen A. Orlins said Friday that the Chinese government has done a good job in dealing with the massive earthquake that hit Sichuan province last Monday. "A disa ...
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
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. ...
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 ...
More donations are pouring in Saturday for China's quake relief efforts, as rescuers race against time to save life on the sixth day of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12. The All-C ...
