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Earthquake in China

4.0-magnitude aftershock shakes county near Lhasa

people.com.cn
18 hrs ago
        

An aftershock measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Saturday morning. Local authorities said, no casualties have been reported. The tremor was also felt in...

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Hong Kong sets panda reserve as priority Sichuan aid project (AFP)

yahoo.com
12 hrs ago
        

HONG KONG (AFP) - Almost half of Hong Kong's aid package to help China's quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government said Sunday. Hong Kong's government said it would spend 863 million...

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More than 60,000 affected in Tibet quake

xinhuanet.com
yesterday 5 related
        

A doctor from the General Hospital of Tibet's Area Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) takes a medical examination for a resident suffered from earthquake in Yangyi Village of Gedar Township in Damxung County, an...

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Hong Kong to aid Sichuan in quake rebuilding

xinhuanet.com
yesterday 6 related
        

CHENGDU, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will donate 1.665 billion yuan to help Sichuan Province in southwestern China with its rebuilding after the May 12 earthquake. The money, about 243.6...

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4.0-magnitude aftershock shakes county near Lhasa

xinhuanet.com
yesterday 1 related
        

LHASA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- An aftershock measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Saturday morning. Local authorities said, no casualties have been reported....

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Dispatch from Lhasa, Tibet Day 3: Wetlands, markets and culture

dailycamera.com
yesterday 1 related
        

Editor's note: After stopping in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to present the city with the gift of a cybercafe, Boulder Mayor Shaun McGrath and his wife, Becca Heaton, have moved on to another sister city: Lhasa, Tibet. They've been...

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Suicide sparks concern for officials' mental health in quake zone

xinhuanet.com
10-Oct-2008 1 related
        

CHENGDU, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in the southwest China May 12 quake zone are seeking ways to improve the mental health of their staff after a 40-year-old senior official of Beichuan County, one of the worst-hit areas,...

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Earthquake kills 74 in Kyrgyzstan mountains

rian.ru
10-Oct-2008 7 related
        

BISHKEK (AFP) - Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children. >>

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President Hu praises army's role in quake relief

xinhuanet.com
09-Oct-2008 11 related
        

Chinese President Hu Jintao (1st. Front) meets with officers at a ceremony to honor outstanding organizations and individuals for their contributions to the May 12 earthquake rescue and relief work at the Great Hall of the...

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Officials: supplies badly needed in quake hit NW region

xinhuanet.com
09-Oct-2008 2 related
        

URUMQI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Tents, winter clothing and medicine were badly needed in quake-hit Wuqia County, a mountainous area also swept by continuous rain in the far west of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local...

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