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China investigates 7,000 school collapses (ABC)

                   
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May 21, 2008
        
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By Foreign affairs editor Peter Cave and wires China's top anti-corruption official says it is impossible to rule out suggestions that shoddy workmanship and substandard building materials played a part in the collapse of more than 7,000 schools during last week's earthquake. The... [read full story]                    

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Schools Fell While Other Buildings Held

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China investigates 7,000 school collapses

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Schools Fell While Other Buildings Held

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May 23, 2008
        

By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, May 23, 2008; Page A01 MIANZHU, China — The day the earthquake hit was supposed to be a special one for Ding Yao. Her hair done up in pigtails, she was sitting in the front of a fourth-grade classroom, waiting for the teacher to hand...

                   

Grieving Chinese Parents Want To Know Why Schools Collapsed As Other Buildings Held

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May 23, 2008
        

The day the earthquake hit was supposed to be a special one for Ding Yao. Her hair done up in pigtails, she was sitting in the front of a fourth-grade classroom, waiting for the teacher to hand out prizes to students who had the highest scores on a math test. She wasn't sure, but she was hopeful...

                   

Schools Fell While Other Buildings Held

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May 23, 2008
        

MIANZHU, China -- The day the earthquake hit was supposed to be a special one for Ding Yao. Her hair done up in pigtails, she was sitting in the front of a fourth-grade classroom, waiting for the teacher to hand out prizes to students who had the highest scores on a math test. She wasn't sure,...

                   

Angry parents protest collapse of China’s schools

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May 21, 2008
        

By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers JUYUAN, China — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for officials worried that a spotlight may be...

                   

Parents Protest China School Collapse

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May 21, 2008
        

Seima Oki, Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer reports: About 200 bereaved parents who lost children when part of a primary school collapsed during the recent earthquake in southwest China demonstrated Wednesday, saying the local government was responsible for the shoddy construction work. Several...

                   

Chinese Parents Believe Quake Deaths Were Avoidable

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May 21, 2008
        

Perhaps the only thing worse than losing is a child is the sense that that loss could have been prevented. This is the situation facing thousands of Chinese parents who believe that their children would have survived the massive May 12 earthquake if it had not been for the shoddy construction of...

                   
mcclatchydc.com: A resident of Xiang'e, China, holds up a brick from a school that collapsed in a May 12 earthquake and rubs off what appears at first to be cement. It actually is just sand. The woman, Ma Fucui, said fraudulent construction methods led to the school's col mcclatchydc.com

Angry parents protest collapse of China's schools

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May 21, 2008
        

By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers Tim Johnson / MCT View larger image JUYUAN, China — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for...

                   

Parents Blame Chinese Officials for School Collapse

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May 21, 2008
        

At a primary school in the town of Wufu, China, at least 127 students died when the three-story building collapsed during the earthquake in Sichuan province last week. The parents say it wasn't the earthquake that caused the destruction — it was the shoddy structure.

                   

Angry parents protest collapse of China's schools (McClatchy Newspapers)

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May 21, 2008
        

By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers 2 hours, 43 minutes ago JUYUAN, China — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for officials worried...

                   
abc.net.au: Many schools collapsed while nearby buildings did not. abc.net.au

China investigates 7,000 school collapses

abc.net.au
May 21, 2008
        

China's top anti-corruption official says it is impossible to rule out suggestions that shoddy workmanship and substandard building materials played a part in the collapse of more than 7,000 schools during last week's earthquake. ... The disproportionately highly number...

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