News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
China moves to draft 12-year guideline for education reform September 3rd, 2008 Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao has presided over a meeting on education in Beijing, partly shown here, which will draw up a 12-year plan on education reform and development,...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
China allocated nearly four million dollars on Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people. The 27 million yuan (3.95 million dollars) was allocated from the central...
News Source: China News
| about 1 year ago
Although some experts said it might take three years, the road from Dujiangyan to Wenchuan, the epicenter of the May 12 quake in southwest China that left 69,226 people dead, reopened to traffic on Tuesday. "About 80 percent of the 90-kilometer road...
News Source: China News
| about 1 year ago
Wang Jian, deputy head of the city's civil affairs bureau, said the city had accepted pledges of 18,090 tents from the civil affairs departments in neighboring regions and social donations as of Monday. "Despite the promised aid, the city still needs...
News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
In this village near Panzhihua city in Sichuan province, nearly 400 families have lost their houses. Relief efforts have already started, and tents are being erected to accommdate those left homeless. Zhang Xingming, Party Secretary of Dalongtan...
News Source: China News
| about 1 year ago
The death toll in Saturday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces has risen to 40 and 675 people were injured, local authorities said Monday. Huili county in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, the worst-hit region in Sichuan,...