Fresh tremors rock China quake zone

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday asked rescuers to use "every available means" to reach every village affected by the May 12 earthquake in southwest China. "We must try every method to send rescuers to every quake-hit village, instead of ...

Chen Shuyu reopened his restaurant several days after the destructive earthquake on May 12. Business has become normal in many other restaurants and supermarkets. "Now, many restaurants have reopened."...In Mianyang, a worst-hit area in ...

Surviving the magnitude-8 earthquake on May 12, 166 children in Sichuan Province had their first class on Sunday morning in the provincial capital of Chengdu. The children, mostly from the hardest-hit Pengzhou, Dujiangyan and Mianzhu cities, were ...

A strong quake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12. Tremors were felt across China except the northeastern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur ...

China on Sunday declared three days of mourning and suspended the Olympic torch relay nearly a week after a massive quake struck the country's southwest, as the death toll continued to mount. The announcements came after a powerful aftershock ...

A Chinese energy official ordered on Sunday "all-out efforts" to restore the power grid facilities in quake-hit Sichuan Province to support disaster relief. Zhang Guobao, director of National Bureau of Energy, said powergrids were seriously affected ...

China quake Despite waning hope of finding more survivors, weary rescuers were still digging through the rubble where thousands remained buried as China raised the official death toll to 32,477 and the number of injured to over 2.2 lakh....

Rescue workers take a break in the devastated town of Beichuan. Photograph: Dan Chung China today declared three days of national mourning for its earthquake victims and ordered a suspension of the Olympic torch relay. The state council, China's ...

ET Chinese soldiers walk over the ruins of collapsed buildings as they search for earthquake victims in Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province. (Greg Baker/Associated Press) The Olympic torch relay will be suspended for three days in China as people ...

ET The first of several Canadian medical teams planning to travel to earthquake-ravaged China was to depart from Vancouver on Sunday. The Canadian Medical Assistance Teams is sending a crew of doctors and paramedics to Chengdu, the provincial ...