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Chinese president flies to quake-hit areas

                   
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May 16, 2008
        
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Beijing - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday flew to the earthquake-devastated south-western province of Sichuan, where at least 20,000 people died and an estimated 30,000 are missing under rubble. Hu planned to console the victims and inspect th... [read full story]                    

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Rains likely to sweep quake-hit areas, add to difficulties of relief work

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Rains likely to sweep quake-hit areas, add to difficulties of relief work

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May 18, 2008
        

BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese National Meteorological Center(NMC) predicted on Sunday that rains or even thunderstorms might sweep several quake-hit localities next week and would add to difficulties of disaster relief work. The NMC said Sichuan, Chongqing, and southern Gansu and...

Relief goods from Italy arrive in China's quake-hit Sichuan

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May 18, 2008
        

BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of earthquake relief goods donated by the Italian government to southwest China's quake-hit Sichuan Province arrived at Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, the provincial capital, on Sunday. The goods, mainly tents, were the first of three...

                   

Feature: Be strong, my families: Chinese students in Russia tell quake-hit compatriots

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May 18, 2008
        

It's enough. The cardboard box, wrapped with a red piece of paper on which the Chinese characters DONATION were printed, was too full to take any envelopes that were piled beside it and contained all sorts of donation money. "I've never seen so many kinds of currencies," Wang Yanlong, chairman of...

Ammonia gas leak under control in China's quake-hit zone

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May 17, 2008
        

QINGCHUAN COUNTY, Sichuan Province, May 17 (Xinhua) _ Rescuers have brought under control an ammonia gas leak in a meat processing factory in the quake-hit areas of southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to local sources. Cracks appeared on pipelines in the factory's cold store in...

                   

Thousands evacuated for fear of flooding in quake-hit China

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May 17, 2008
        

From correspondents in Asia Pacific, 10:32 PM IST Thousands of people living near a lake and a river in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan are being evacuated for fear of flooding, disaster relief officials said Saturday. The Qianjiang River was blocked at many places by...

                   

Singapore rescue team searches survivors in quake-hit town

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May 17, 2008
        

Members of a rescue team from Singapore search for survivors in the quake-hit Hongbai Town of Shifang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2008. The team of 55 members from Singapore started their rescue mission in the serious devastated Hongbai Town on Saturday.(Xinhua/Jiang Fan)...

                   
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Thousands flee as flood threatens quake-hit town

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May 17, 2008
        

Beijing - Residents of an earthquake-devastated town in south-western China fled on Saturday as a nearby lake was reportedly in imminent danger of flooding the town. The residents of Beichuan in Sichuan province began rushing onto hillsides and some clambered onto motorcycles to leave the town as...

Chinese army to send more relief materials, medical teams to quake-hit area

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May 16, 2008
        

BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese armed force will airlift another 1,154 tonnes of relief materials and send ten more medical teams to quake-hit area in southwest China, the military earthquake relief task force said Friday night. The new consignment of relief materials comes from military...

Relief goods from Pakistan arrive in China's quake-hit Sichuan

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May 16, 2008
        

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Relief goods donated by the Pakistani government to China's quake-hit Sichuan Province arrived in the provincial capital of Chengdu Friday night, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The goods weighing 10 tonnes include tents, food, medicine and drinking water...

                   

Feature: South Korean sisters send year's pocket money to Chinese quake-hit children

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May 16, 2008
        

BUSAN, South Korea, May 16 (Xinhua) -- "Please deliver the money to the children in Sichuan's earthquake-hit areas and express our blessings," Hwang Yoon-kyung, 12, and her younger sister Hwang Hye-kyung, 11, said in a message to the Chinese Consulate General in South Korea's southeastern port...

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