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Troops Scramble To Blow Quake Lake As More Evacuations Ordered
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Troops armed with dynamite scrambled Tuesday to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people. With the May 12 earthquake death toll already standing at more than 65,000, officials desperate to avoid another disaster sent 1,800 troops and engineers to try to reduce the dangerously high water lev ... more Thunderstorms may add to woes of China's quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Survivors of China's earthquake huddled inside tents near their devastated homes Tuesday as they awaited a predicted thunderstorm, wondering how they would cope. In Renjiaping, a village near the quake's epicentre in southwest China's Sichuan province, people made homeless by the disaster said their biggest concern now was rains predicted to deluge the area in the days to come. Wang Sufe ... more 420,000 houses collapse in China aftershocks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008More than 420,000 houses collapsed in quake-hit Sichuan province in southwest China after two fresh aftershocks hit the area on Tuesday afternoon, state media reported. Xinhua news agency, quoting local disaster relief headquarters, said the houses were in Qingchuan County and added 63 people had been injured there as a result, six of them critically. Southwest China has been rocked by ... more China in emergency vaccination drive in quake-hit areas 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008China said Tuesday it would provide mass emergency vaccinations in quake-hit areas to curb potential epidemics, but reported no major disease outbreaks so far. "By June 15, emergency inoculation of vulnerable people will be completed including vaccines against Hepatitis A and Encephalitis B," Sun Jiahai, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told reporters Tuesday. He did not clarify ... more Aftershocks to rattle China for months: expert 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 27, 2008China will be rocked by powerful earthquake aftershocks for months, a senior expert warned Tuesday, as two more strong tremors struck. Aftershocks after the devastating May 12 quake will continue for two or three months, said He Yongnian, former deputy director of the China Seismological Bureau, according to Xinhua news agency. "Judging from previous earthquakes of a similar magnitude ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008A Beijing subway line was suspended on Wednesday due to a signal failure, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said, after earlier reporting an "emergency" was to blame. Xinhua said service on the number two line was suspended twice because of a signal failure, adding there was no suggestion of a terrorist attack. In its earlier report, it said the subway had been suspended for an "unsp ... more China will not boost oil imports after quake: senior official 
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008China does not plan to increase imports of oil, a senior official said Wednesday, amid speculation that supply could come under pressure due to this month's devastating earthquake. "China depends on the outside world for 47 percent of its oil demand. That's very high as it is," said Mu Hong, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planning ... more China Launches Weather Satellite For Olympic Games 
Taiyuan, China (XNA) May 28, 2008China launched a second Olympic weather forecasting satellite, the Fengyun-3 (FY-3), Tuesday morning. The satellite was launched on a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province at 11:02 a.m. (Beijing Time). It entered the preset orbit 27 minutes later. Gao Huoshan, general director of the FY-3 research team, said the satell ... more Russia And China Against Deployment Of Weapons In Space 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) May 27, 2008Russia and China want an international agreement to be drafted banning the deployment of weapons in space, the countries' leaders said on Friday in a joint declaration after talks in Beijing. "The sides are in favor of the peaceful use of space, but are against the deployment of weapons in space or a space arms race," the declaration said. In February Russia and China presented at a ... more |
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Mianzhu, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Soldiers raced Monday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than one million people could be at risk from flooding. The operation to reduce the so-called "quake lake" in mountainous Sichuan province came as the confirmed death toll from the huge tremor passed 65,000, with more than 23,000 others still missing. Chin ... more China authorities to probe school collapse after quake: report 
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2008Authorities in China have promised to investigate the collapse of a school in a quake-hit area that left more than 1,300 children and teachers dead or missing, state media reported Monday. The news comes after the government has vowed to punish anyone responsible for substandard construction standards at schools, amid fury over the large number of children killed in collapsed school building ... more 10,000 children and elderly left alone by quake: state media 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 26, 2008At least 5,498 Chinese children have been left on their own in earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province, either because they were orphaned or separated from their parents, state media reported. Another 4,797 elderly people were in similar difficulties with no children to support them, Xinhua news agency said in a report late Sunday, citing the government's main disaster relief headquarters here. ... more China aftershock death toll rises to eight: govt 
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2008The death toll from a strong aftershock in southwestern China rose to eight on Monday, with another 927 people injured, the government said. The deaths were spread widely across the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and the large municipality of Chongqing, cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin told a press conference in Beijing. Sunday's aftershock was centred in quake-ravaged Sichuan and had ... more
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