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Limited impact on China's economy from quake: officials
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008The impact of the Chinese earthquake on the nation's economy and inflation will be limited, senior policy makers said Wednesday, as jitters about the disaster haunt the financial markets. The area of southwest China's Sichuan province where the 8.0-magnitude quake struck on May 12 was not big enough to have any real impact on the national economy, Mu Hong, a senior planner, told a briefing i ... more China focuses on 'quake lake' amid aftershock trauma 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 28, 2008China pressed on Wednesday with frantic efforts to drain water from a huge "quake lake" threatening millions of people, as survivors of this month's devastating tremor braced for more aftershocks. Rescue workers had evacuated 158,000 people in the most imminent danger from a breaching of the lake, which was created when landslides blocked a river in the May 12 earthquake that devastated huge ... more 40 survivors rescued 16 days after China quake: state press 
Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2008Forty half-starved earthquake survivors have been rescued from a remote area in southwestern China a full 16 days after the disaster, state press reported on Thursday. They were flown out by helicopter on Wednesday from the quake-shattered village of Yangjiagou in Sichuan province, the West China Metropolitan Daily said. The survivors had been prevented from escaping by landslides trigge ... more Torrential rain kills 53 in China: report 
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008The death toll from torrential rains in China climbed to 53, state media reported Wednesday, after people were killed by collapsed buildings, floods and landslides in five provinces. A further 28 people were missing, and 4,000 were stranded by floods, Xinhua news agency reported. The southwestern province of Guizhou was the hardest hit, Xinhua said, with 36 people killed by flash floods ... more Japan says may send military aircraft to quake-hit China 
Tokyo (AFP) May 28, 2008Japan is considering sending its first military air mission to China since the end of World War II to transport aid for victims of this month's devastating earthquake, Japanese officials said Wednesday. China has asked Japan's Self-Defence Forces to fly over aid for some of the millions of people left homeless after the devastating quake, said Japan's top government spokesman, Nobutaka Machi ... 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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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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