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China News
| 8 months ago
Special teams formed to carry out a series of school safety checks The 350 schools in the county where 18 elementary students and an adult were killed in a landslide last week have been ordered to suspend classes and undergo safety checks. A team of...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Southwest China's Yiliang county, where a rain-triggered landslide on Thursday claimed 19 lives, will continue to receive light to moderate rain this week, the country's meteorological authorities forecast Saturday. The county, located in Yunnan...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Geological experts said Saturday continuous rain, geological conditions and earthquakes jointly triggered a landslide that left 19 people dead on Thursday in southwest China's Yunnan Province. A team consisting of geological experts and emergency...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may call parliamentary elections as early as February, months ahead of schedule, in a bid to capitalize on a wave of popularity, according to several members of his coalition. Re-election could give him a fresh...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Disaster hit as children took catch-up classes, county govt says Nineteen people buried by a landslide in Yunnan province, including 18 elementary students, were confirmed dead on Friday. The disaster happened in Zhenhe, a village in the northeast...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
October 5, 2012 This picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province. (AFP/Getty Images) A...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
At least 18 children died in a landslide that crushed a school in southwestern China's Yunnan province, it was confirmed on Friday. The children, all primary school students, were getting ready to take extra classes in spite of the week long national...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Rescuers search for victims after a landslide engulfed a building of a primary school at Zhenhe village of Yiliang county A landslide in quake-hit Yunnan province of southwest China Thursday left 18 primary school students dead, news agencies...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Beijing, October 5, 2012 The death toll rose to 18 after a landslide engulfed a primary school in south-western China's Yunnan province, burying the children under rubble, state media said on Friday. One adult remained missing and another was...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead Friday, while one other person also died after a hillside collapsed and smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China. The Tiantou Elementary School was...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Fourteen primary school students were confirmed dead and one seriously injured in Yunnan province on Thursday after a landslide, which buried 19 people, crushed their school in an area that was hit by a series of earthquakes in early September. The...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said on Friday. The landslide, triggered by sustained rains,...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Chinese authorities Friday confirmed 18 primary school students died in a landslide on a village in an earthquake-devastated county the previous day. A spokesman for Yiliang County in southwest Yunnan province, where the disaster struck Thursday...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on Friday. The landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried the school and...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Chinese hunt school collapse survivors Martin Patience describes the rescue operation Hundreds of Chinese people are due to renew their search for survivors from a landslide that buried a primary school on Wednesday. Sixteen children were confirmed...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Sixteen primary school students have been confirmed dead and three other people remain missing after a landslide hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Thursday, local authorities said. The disaster, which occurred at around 8:00 am in...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
This picture shows visitors gathered on the Great Wall of China. Hundreds of millions of tourists crowded into scenery spots, resorts and other tourism destinations scattered across the country while millions of visitors arrived in the capital city...
