Earthquake in China

5.9-magnitude earthquake near Indonesia

A meteorology agency in Indonesia says an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has occurred off the Sumatra Island portion of the country.An unidentified official with the Ali Imron agency said there have been no reported...

Fund-raising party held for helping handicapped people in quake areas

An annual fund-raising party for helping handicapped people was held here on Friday, with a specific goal this year to assist crippled children and paraplegic adults from areas devastated by the May 12 earthquake in southwest...

class struggle

Articles about the theory of class struggle, and about mass working class struggles. More unrest in China following further layoffs in the industrial heartland. The uses of an earthquake - Harry Cleaver When earthquakes,...

Trains to house Chinese quake victims this winter

Two out-of-date Beijing subway trains arrived in China's quake-hit Sichuan Province on Wednesday. They will serve as makeshift winter housing for locals, according to a newspaper report released Thursday. In all, 10 trains,...

Sichuan's earthquake, six months later - The Big Picture

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:33 PM EST Six months ago, China suffered its worst earthquake in a generation. The magnitude 8.0 Sichuan Earthquake erased many mountain towns and villages from the face of the...

China's Katrina

I received the following disturbing email from a friend traveling through the heart of the Sichuan quake region last night: I am in Sichuan, the earthquake region, devastating destruction, many thousands (a hundred thousand...

Quake lessons from China

The Dominion Post | Thursday, 27 November 2008 A team of Kiwis is back from a "life-changing" visit to the earthquake-scarred Wenchuan region in China with some lessons for New Zealand. Wenchuan was ravaged by a 7.9 magnitude...

Electricity Corps powers after-quake reconstruction amid global financial turmoil

by Xinhua writers Qi Zijian and Chen Kai YINGXIU, Sichuan, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- In early October, the winding mountain road led her back to her workplace in Yingxiu of Sichuan Province in southwest China, and Guo took up her job...

ホットな話題:四川大地震、発生から半年 被災の子らパンダに笑顔

◇PANDA PAL Patients from a hospital caring for survivors of the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed over 60,000 people in China gather around a giant panda during a recent visit to a breeding facility in Chengdu, Sichuan...

China Earthquake Survivors Look To Future

More than six months since a devastating earthquake in China left tens of thousands buried under collapsed buildings, Celia Hatton went back to Sichuan province, and found that for the survivors, every day is a new struggle.