The confirmed death toll is a jump of about 5,000 since Wednesday, when authorities gave a toll of 14,463 dead for the province. Tens of thousands more people are believed to be missing or buried under the rubble from Monday's
More than 72 hours after the quake rattled central China, rescuers appeared to shift from poring through downed buildings for survivors to the grim duty of searching for bodies — with 10 million directly affected by Monday's temblor. The confirmed
The vehicle was carrying 42 passengers most of whom were from the same village and travelling for a banquet, official Xinhua news agency said quoting police. Police said the accident appeared to have been caused by "bad driving" but did
YINGXIU-The death toll from China's earthquake could soar to more than 50,000, state-run media reported Thursday, as rescuers struggled to help survivors and hope faded for the thousands buried...
The day after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province Monday afternoon, in Wenchuan County, the region of the quake's epicenter, more than 12,000 people were confirmed dead, nearly 30...
NPR's All Things Considered team who was in Chengdu as the earthquake hit is keeping a blog of their reporting on the aftermath. Today they post interviews with survivors from the Juyuan Middle School, which collapsed, killing hundreds of students:We
From BBC News:As part of a series following the Olympic torch around China, the focus turns to Xiamen, a city on the front line of disputes between Beijing and Taipei.A stretch of beach on China's south-eastern coast overlooks tense waters.
In the New York Times, author Simon Winchester writes that seismology was among the many scientific accomplishments in Chinese history:As we watch with mounting melancholy the devastation from Sichuan, a question lingers, and troublingly. Why, if the Chinese had come
From AP via Examiner.com:First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting
Ren Hongbin, member of a car club in Mianyang city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, has driven between Beichuan, a county heavily ravaged by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, to Mianyang at least ten times a day since Tuesday. He and ...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said on Thursday it had accepted Taiwan-based China Airlines' offer to freight relief materials to quake-hit regions in Sichuan. The chartered flight was expected to leave Taipei at ...
The reconstruction of a damaged road into the epicenter of the massive quake in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, progressed further and was about 10 km away from the county seat as of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, said the Ministry of Transport.
Temporary controls have been imposed on food prices and transportation fares in quake-hit provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and Chongqing municipality to stem hoarding and speculation. Local authorities announced the move after t ...
No epidemic have been reported in quake-hit regions by now after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province, Gao Qiang, deputy health minister said here on Thursday at a press conference. Source:Xinhua ...
Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei said on Thursday that damaged water infrastructure, including reservoirs and hydropower plants, posed serious threats to flood control and security in earthquake-stricken regions, particularly in the har ...
Telecommunications cables connecting Wenchuan County, the epicenter of Monday's devastating quake in southwest China, with other parts of the country resumed operation at 1:55 p.m. Thursday, said engineers with fixed-line operator China Tel ...
A senior Chinese official said Thursday that the mainland welcomes an earthquake rescue team sent by the Red Cross organization of Taiwan to help with relief work in the quake-hit Sichuan Province. Source:Xinhua ...
China has allocated 400 million yuan (57.14 million U.S. dollars) from the central finance to the earthquake-hit areas for medical relief, a senior official of the Ministry of Health said Thursday. Out of the figure, 200 million yua ...
At least 600 people in Beichuan, one of the areas hardest-hit by Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, have been rescued, according to information from relief officials. Information from the earthquake control and relief headquarters o ...
