Taiwan, HK join rescue effort

Anthony Liao is hiring speakers of minor Chinese dialects at his Taipei travel agency, studying new destinations and ensuring a supply of buses as he gears for a surge of tourists from China, a relative rarity until now. His Phoenix Tours ...

The fourteen senior citizens from Changhua county who were lost during the catastrophic May 12 Wenchuan earthquake were found safe in Qipan Village near to where their bus was located. The travel agency in Zhejiang which arranged the tour for the 14 ...

Friday offered 5 million RMB (714,000 U.S. dollars) to the earthquake-stricken areas in Southwest China's Sichuan province. Olympic Building after the devastating earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale rocked southwest China. RMB and the ...

More than 700 Taiwan compatriots, who had been affected by the earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, flew home from Chongqing and Chengdu cities on Friday evening and early Saturday morning. Four chartered planes provided by Taiwan ...

Rescue teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan have joined the search and rescue efforts. And Taiwan's China Airlines has sent a plane loaded with relief supplies to the stricken area of Sichuan. On Thursday evening, the chartered flight arrived in Chengdu ...