 |
National News |
 |
|
 |
Overseas rescuers arrive to save lives  |
| |
May.17, 2008 |
| |
QINGCHUAN, Sichuan - A team of Japanese rescuers arrived here in one of the province's worst-hit counties at 3:30 pm on Friday, and immediately got on with the job of trying to save lives.
The 31-member team was the first foreign aid group to arrive in China. Others, from Russia, the Republic of Korea... |
| FULL STORY |
 |
| |
| China may raise threshold for windfall tax on oil gains |
| |
May.17, 2008 |
| |
BEIJING - Chinese government is considering raising the threshold of windfall tax levy on gains from crude oil, but the timing is not clear, Jiang Jiemin, president of PetroChina Company Ltd. said Thursday.
The tax threshold should have been raised when crude price surpassed US$80 per barrel, Jiang... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Life and death at a school |
| |
May.17, 2008 |
| |
Shifang City, Sichuan -- Tang Hong held one of his students in arms and sheltered several others with his body when rescue workers found him in rubbles.
The lives of the students he thus protected were saved but not his.
The 20-something young teacher would have escaped the tragedy because he had enough... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Hope amid the ruins of China's quake disaster |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao flew to quake-ravaged Sichuan Province early on Friday, more than 80 hours after the most destructive earthquake in new China killed nearly 20,000 people there.
This shows China's top leadership has not given up hope, although the... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Adoption applications flood in after quake |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
BEIJING, May 16 -- Liu Ming has a photograph, which shows her standing among a group of children attending a new school.
The picture was taken in happier times; today it evokes nothing but sadness.
Liu, 32, is an employee of CapitaLand, a Singapore developer,... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Japanese rescue team arrive in quake-hit area |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
QINGCHUAN, Sichuan, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A group of earthquake relief professionals sent by the Japanese government arrived at Guanzhuang Town of Qingchuan County, one of the worst hit counties of southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The 31 well-equipped rescuers, together... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Quake deaths estimated over 50,000 in Sichuan alone |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
CHENGDU -- More than 50,000 people are feared dead in southwest China's Sichuan Province alone after Monday's earthquake, the rescue headquarters of the State Council said Thursday.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Wenchuan County, about 159 km northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu,... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Trapped teenagers sang songs while awaiting rescue |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
MIANYANG, Sichuan -- A teenage girl has told how she and her classmates sang pop songs together as they lay trapped and injured in the ruins of their high school after the massive earthquake in southwest China on Monday.
Li Anning, 16, was trapped for 40 hours in the rubble of the collapsed... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Some 5,500 China quake survivors rescued from ruins |
| |
May.16, 2008 |
| |
BEIJING-- As of 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, more than 5,500 earthquake survivors had been excavated from debris by the armed police, police sources said.
More than 50,000 people had been evacuated from the epicenter of Monday's devastating quake -- Wenchuan, Sichuan Province -- and other worst-hit regions... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
| Classmate "clawed me out with bare hands," survivor recalls |
| |
May.15, 2008 |
| |
WENCHUAN, Sichuan - Xiang Xiaolian, a 13-year-old girl, murmured: "The boy clawed me out with his bare hands," as she lay in bed at the No.1 Hospital affiliated to the West China Medical University.
Xiang was in class at the Xuankou Middle School when the 7.8-magnitude quake hit Wenchuan... |
| FULL STORY |
|
| |
|
| Total 646 Record(s); Display 1-10 Record(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| Now hiring! |
 |
|
|
| Now hiring! |
 |
|
|
| Now hiring! |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
