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Chinese People in Disaster Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - China Wakes to Devastating Earthquake Tuesday, May 13, 2008 BEICHUAN, China—China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake...
BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. President Hu Jintao flew to the battered province of...
Ho report - Download (MP3) Ho report - Listen (MP3) The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the United States is helping China work to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases following this week's massive earthquake. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Secretary Leavitt...
The Family Research Council (FRC) is a savvy bunch. The FRC, as a reminder, has apparently decided to act on their contention that federal contraception funding (Title X program) is too connected to centers that also provide abortion (because we all know how silly it is for a woman who has...
BEIJING -- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt confirmed that the U.S. will bar Chinese companies that don't meet product-quality certification standards from the U.S. market. Mr. Leavitt said regulators can't possibly inspect the $2 trillion of goods the U.S. will likely import...
Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Wendy Koch Twelve U.S. tourists who were visiting a panda-breeding reserve in China on Monday survived the country's magnitude-7.9 earthquake unhurt. "We were able to make contact with them" early Wednesday by satellite phone, said Kerry Zobor,...
Senate Republicans are facing a test that pits the Bush administration and conservative principles of small government against their home states. The House supplemental war appropriations bill includes a moratorium on the implementation of new Medicaid rules. Proposed by the administration, the...
Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By Brandon Loomis, The Salt Lake Tribune May 12--WOODS CROSS -- The tall grasses and shorebirds bobbing across the horizon to Utah's inland sea cement the image of a nature park, but one with a no-nonsense purpose. With a lower speed limit and no truck...
The US recession is not expected to affect overall China-US relations, the visiting US secretary of commerce said. Carlos Gutierrez said he hopes the US economy's downturn wouldn't impact the countries' relationship, because bilateral relations are "bigger than" a single economic element, he told...
China's capital recorded its first death from hand, foot and mouth disease on Wednesday as the authorities tried to contain the spread of the potent virus just three months before the city hosts the Olympic Games. A child died Sunday on the way to a hospital, according to Xinhua, the official...
