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Strait Herald , August 9, 2010 A landslide that hit Zhouqu County in Gansu Province on Sunday morning has left 127 people dead and nearly 1,300 missing. Images of the disaster turned up on the front page of most newspapers today, including the Xiamen-based Strait Herald (海峡导报). A graphic from The Beijing...
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Giving aid amid the rubble (Wang Yi/ SW ) The role of local monks in the aftermath of the earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province, has been reported in the New York Times and the Guardian . In the Chinese press, the China Daily looked at monks rebuilding religious structures. More recently the AP has reported...
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Oriental Guardian , Information Times Youth Times , Daily Sunshine Southern Metropolis Daily , The Beijing News , Dongguan Times , Metro Express This collage of front pages comes from Sina microblogger Joysoon ( 卓越兄 ). Today has been declared a National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Yushu Earthquake...
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Collapsed building in Qinghai (Zhang Hongshuan / Xinhua) According to Xinhua, the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Qinghai Province this morning has resulted in 400 deaths and 10,000 injuries. One area of particular concern is for the children, who would have been starting their school day when the...
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Xinhua Daily Telegraph , April 12, 2010 In the week following the rescue of 115 miners from a flooded coal mine in Wangjialing, Shanxi Province, there has been no further good news concerning the 38 miners who remained trapped underground. Thirty-three of those have been found dead in the last week,...
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Chongqing Evening News , April 9, 2010 To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Chongqing Evening News has been revisiting some of the notable stories in its archives. Today's installment seems inspired by the "miraculous rescue" narrative found in this week's reporting on mining disaster...
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New Life Post , April 6, 2010 The ongoing efforts to rescue trapped miners continued to capture the attention of the mainstream media today. Yesterday's papers hailed the "miraculous" rescue of nine of the miners, who were became trapped underground when their mine in Wangjialing, Shanxi...
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Lydia Wallace was interning at Danwei when the Sichuan earthquake struck. She is now working for a disaster relief organization in Sichuan and will be publishing stories and photographs about the people she meets. Yan Guangbing Maozi the Wonder Dog Yan Guangbing lives in Luoshui, Sichuan a small town...
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A carpetbagger The word 'carpetbagger' was first used after the American Civil War to refer to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They often traveled with their luggage packed in cheap and durable bags made from old carpets known as carpetbags. Carpetbaggers...
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The quake donation frenzy has subsided a little, but the work goes on, as it probably will for another two or three years. Two expatriate run quake relief projects worth considering: Hands On Chengdu and Sichuan Quake Relief . This article is from Danwei.org
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Distress rejuvenates a nation On 23 January, Premier Wen Jiabao visited the Beichuan Middle School at its temporary location on the grounds of a training center belonging to electronics manufacturer Changhong. As part of his address to a class of seniors at the school, the premier wrote "distress rejuvenates...
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Refugees from the storm, the lucky ones This account of the aftermath of the cyclone in Burma by a Burmese citizen was sent to Danwei from a source in Myanmar. I went to Bogalay for two days on 18th and 19th May. Through the route from Yangon to Bogalay,10 army trucks at different were found at different...
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Flood danger from quake lakes At least one person died and hundreds were injured on Sunday after a 6.4-magnitude aftershock occurred at 16:21 in Qingchuan in Sichuan. The deaths and injuries were caused by collapsing buildings. You can read more about it on the Economic Observer and on the China Daily...