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WHO rushes experts to quake-hit China
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2008The World Health Organisation said Thursday it was rushing experts, medical supplies and equipment to China amid increasing fears of disease outbreaks more than a week after the devastating earthquake. The medical supplies will help treat 130,000 people, the UN body said, while the equipment will help ensure clean drinking water and proper sanitation -- vital for controlling any outbreak. ... more China orders million 'recyclable' homes in quake zone 
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2008China on Thursday ordered the immediate construction of one million small homes to provide shelter for up to five years to people left homeless by last week's massive earthquake. The housing ministry issued a directive ordering local authorities to build one million 20-square-metre (215 square-foot) homes by August 10. The buildings should be made of light steel, plywood and other materi ... more China quake death toll at 51,151, 29,328 missing: govt 
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2008The death toll from last week's earthquake in southwest China has risen to 51,151, with 29,328 others still missing, the government said Thursday. Another 288,431 people were injured in the May 12 quake, Guo Weimin, a spokesman for China's State Council, or Cabinet, told a news conference. The confirmed death toll showed a rise of nearly 9,800 from Wednesday. ... more Zimbabwe has not taken delivery of Chinese arms:minister 
Harare (AFP) May 22, 2008The Zimbabwe government Thursday denied taking delivery of a consignment of weapons from China after a ship carrying the arms was prevented from unloading its cargo. "The shipment did not dock and there has not been delivery (of the equipment) as yet," Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi told journalists in Harare. "The shipment is part of a routine equipment for our defence. Zimbabwe has ... more Chinese banks offer 12-bln-dlr credit to quake-hit 
Shanghai (AFP) May 22, 2008Chinese banks have opened credit lines of 82.7 billion yuan (11.9 billion dollars) to earthquake-stricken southwestern Sichuan province, the banking regulatory agency said Thursday. Banks have already extended loans worth 6.5 billion yuan for relief and reconstruction to applicants in Sichuan, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said in a statement. More than 80,000 people were left ... more |
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Astana (AFP) May 22, 2008Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, declared a "pragmatic" and "open" foreign policy as he began his first foreign tour since taking office, holding talks in Kazakhstan before heading to China. The 42-year-old struck a less hawkish tone than his predecessor Vladimir Putin in his most specific foreign policy statements since his May 7 inauguration, in an interview with Chinese journalist ... more Russia, China close to pipeline deal: Medvedev 
Moscow (AFP) May 22, 2008Moscow and Beijing are close to reaching agreement on building a pipeline from Siberia's oil fields to energy-hungry China, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. "We currently have a basic agreement on this and today are at the concluding stage in talks between Rosneft and CNPC," Russia's and China's state oil companies, Medvedev said in an interview posted on the Kremlin website. ... more Lab breakthrough seen in lethal dengue fever 
Paris (AFP) May 21, 2008Scientists in Taiwan believe they can explain how a form of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that is triggering widening concern, reaps its deadly toll. Dengue is caused by four types of virus. Infection with any one of these viruses causes a mild fever and lifelong immunity to that strain. But a secondary infection by a different strain boosts the risk of dengue haemorrhagic fever ... more China scrambles to help homeless as quake death toll climbs 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) May 21, 2008China scrambled on Wednesday to provide shelter and prevent disease among five million people made homeless by last week's earthquake, as the number of dead and missing climbed above 74,000. With hope virtually extinguished of finding more survivors amid the rubble of the devastated towns and villages across mountainous Sichuan province, soldiers and relief workers focused on the desperate ... more |
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Lubbock TX (SPX) May 20, 2008Just 40 minutes before the May 12 earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan province in Central China, a Texas Tech University professor of geosciences had arrived in Beijing, only 960 miles away. Hua-wei Zhou, professor of petroleum geophysics and seismology, was about to start work for the National Natural Science Foundation of China to monitor smaller earthquakes ... more Chinese troops rescue 86 from quake-hit village: state media
Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2008Chinese troops evacuated 86 residents of a remote mountain village cut off for a week by the devastating earthquake, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Tuesday. Rescuers hiked 32 kilometres (20 miles) on a "dangerous mountain path" covered by landslides to reach the village of Maliuping in Sichuan province on Monday, Xinhua said. The rescue teams evacuated 86 villagers living near the ... more China warns of water contamination from quake: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2008Chinese authorities warned Tuesday of serious threats to drinking water in earthquake-hit areas and called on local officials to take precautions. Dead bodies and chemical waste "pose great threats to the safety of drinking water," the ministry of environmental protection said in a directive quoted by the official Xinhua news agency. It said that people should not use water sources from ... more China govt offers financial relief in quake-hit areas 
Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2008China's government announced a series of financial measures Tuesday to help millions of people affected by the earthquake that devastated the nation's southwest, state press said. Besides allocating up to 2.5 billion yuan (357 million dollars) in personal allowances to quake victims, the government also ordered tax relief and loan extensions for bank borrowers in quake-hit areas, Xinhua news ... more
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