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China quake dissident gets 3 years
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
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A n advocate for the parents of children killed in last year's earthquake in China's Sichuan province was sentenced to three years in prison for what a judge ruled was illegally obtaining state secrets. The sentence is seen as a warning shot for those...
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China landslide leaves 10 dead: state media
Beijing :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility At least 10 people died after torrential rain set off a landslide in central China, state media reported on Sunday, describing the downpour as the heaviest to hit the area in more than 60 years. The storm hit Huaihua city in Hunan province on Thursday...
Tags: Sichuan Expressway Co., South China Morning Post, China News Service, China Economic Review, Sichuan Province, Xinhua News Agency, torrential rain, Miyi county
Six die in China bridge landslide
Beijing :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility The landslide also destroyed a bridge that is a major link to areas where reconstruction work is being carried out after last year's earthquake. Falling rocks dislodged by heavy rain smashed into the bridge in Wenchuan county, sending vehicles plunging...
Tags: Wenchuan county, Wenchuan County, China, Sichuan Province
Dozens missing in China landslide
Xinhua :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility Another 97 people were rescued after being trapped by the landslide, which struck at 0300 (1900 GMT Wednesday), China's state Xinhua news agency said. The landslide, triggered by heavy rains, has formed a lake several kilometres long, Xinhua said. Heavy...
Tags: China Road, Sichuan Province, heavy rain, Xinhua News Agency, southwest china, china landslides
Russia creates elaborate "second home" for quake-affected Chinese students
Vladivostok :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility A total of 550 students from China's earthquake-hit areas, at the invitation of the Russian government, will start a three-week recreational trip at a Russian children's care center in the Far East on Thursday. "Warm welcome for our friends from China!"...
Tags: Russian, All-Russia Children, China, Sichuan Province
China to distribute welfare lottery on Shanghai World Expo
Beijing :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility China will distribute nationwide new welfare lottery featuring Shanghai World Expo starting next month. The money thus raised will be fully funneled to aid quake reconstruction cause in southwest China's Sichuan Province which was hit by a devastating...
Tags: China, Ministry of Civil Affairs, schools buildings, safety records, Shanghai, Sichuan Province, welfare lottery
Crowd beats man after rescue of infant
Chengdu :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility More than 100 people reportedly attacked a man after he threatened to jump from a high-rise window along with his two-year-old daughter in Sichuan province. Hu Binjun, 34, had earlier hung his daughter out of his eighth-floor window for several minutes,...
Tags: Hu Binjun, Chengdu, Sichuan, sichuan province
Sichuan short on reconstruction money
Nanning :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility The reconstruction of earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province is likely to cost 700 billion yuan ($102 billion) more than is available through government investment and credit financing, the provincial government said Tuesday. The rebuilding of the province...
Tags: SW China, bus drivers, low pay, Sichuan, sichuan province
Chinese cities inspect bus facilities after fatal bus blaze
Chengdu :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility Cities across China inspected bus facilities over the weekend after the fatal bus explosive which killed 27 and injures 76 in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Friday. More signs about dangerous items will be installed in buses and at bus stops...
24 killed in southwest China bus fire
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility Chinese state media says 24 have been killed in a bus fire in the southwestern city of Chengdu. A brief report by the official Xinhua News Agency gave no indication of the cause of the fire early Friday, and Chengdu city government spokesemen reached...
Tags: China, north Chengdu, bus fire, Xinhua News Agency, china bus, Sichuan, sichuan province, bus blaze, caught fire, southwestern china
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