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China's military to hold first press conference on quake rescue operations

                   
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May 18, 2008
        
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China's military will hold a press conference at 4:00 p.m. Sunday to brief on the rescue operations by the army and armed police. The National Defense Ministry spokesman Hu Changming and other five officers with the Departments of the General Staff, General Political, General Logistics, and... [read full story]                    

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Japanese rescue team returns home after China quake aid mission

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Japanese rescue team returns home after China quake aid mission

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May 21, 2008
        

The Japanese rescue team ended its search and rescue operations in southwest China's quake-hit areas and flew back home early Wednesday morning. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang thanked Japan, saying that the hard work of the Japanese rescuers was extensively known by the Chinese...

                   

Japanese rescue team returns home after China quake aid mission

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May 20, 2008
        

CHENGDU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese rescue team ended its search and rescue operations in southwest China's quake-hit areas and flew back home early Wednesday morning. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang thanked Japan, saying that the hard work of the Japanese rescuers was...

                   

After 8 Days, Earthquake Survivors Rescued In China

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May 20, 2008
        

Eight days after a massive earthquake struck southwest China, 129 students and 10 teachers were rescued in an isolated small town in Wenchuan County, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. Early reports about the rescue in the town of Yinxing, carried by the official Xinhua news agency, provided...

                   

Survivors Rescued 8 Days After China Earthquake

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May 20, 2008
        

In the New York Times, Howard French writes about the rescue of 129 students and ten teachers in an isolated village in Wenchuan county eight days after the earthquake struck. He then goes on to question the reliability of the government’s statistics on the disaster, given that some of the...

                   

With China quake toll rising, an unexpected rescue

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May 20, 2008
        

As the death toll in the earthquake last week in southwestern China continued to rise - exceeding 40,000, with tens of thousands still missing - the state media reported Tuesday that 129 students and 10 teachers had been rescued in an isolated town in Sichuan Province. The official Xinhua news...

                   

Survivors rescued 8 days after China earthquake

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May 20, 2008
        

When China began a three-day national mourning period, people across this country quietly understood it as marking an unofficial end to the search and rescue phase of recovery from the devastating earthquake that has killed at least 40,000 people. But Tuesday, eight days after the earthquake...

Woman rescued 195 hours after China's earthquake

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May 20, 2008
        

CHENGDU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A woman in her 60s was rescued at about 6:50 p.m. on Tuesday from a rock crack in Pengzhou, southwest China's Sichuan Province, more than 195 hours after the May 12 earthquake. She had lived on rainwater since then and was conscious when rescuers found her, Phoenix TV...

                   

China: Thank You to Japanese Rescue Team

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May 20, 2008
        

Zhang Hui, from china-week, compared the attitude of Chinese and Japanese rescue team in the earthquake relief work. The blogger expressed his thankfulness to Japanese friends for bringing a new humanitarian practice to China[zh]. A recent Xinhua photos showed how Japanese rescue team mourned for...

Chinese woman dies soon after rescue from earthquake debris

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May 19, 2008
        

A 53-year-old Chinese woman who was rescued on Monday morning after some 165 hours in earthquake debris died despite emergency treatment. Wang Fazhen was pulled from the rubble of a residential building in Hanwang Township, Mianzhu, at about 11 a.m. on Monday. She was among the many trapped by...

Chinese woman dies soon after rescue from earthquake debris

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May 19, 2008
        

MIANZHU, Sichuan, May 19 (Xinhua) -- A 53-year-old Chinese woman who was rescued on Monday morning after some 165 hours in earthquake debris died despite emergency treatment. Wang Fazhen was pulled from the rubble of a residential building in Hanwang Township, Mianzhu, at about 11 a.m. on Monday....

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