01 Dec 2009 03:25:36 GMT RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - Earthquake survivors stand at the ruins of Donghekou Earthquake Site Park, a memorial park for Sichuan earthquake victims, in Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province, May 11 ...
25 Nov 2009 23:19:06 GMT Political briefing Britain under water: how the state responded
In imperial China a surfeit of floods, famines and earthquakes was usually taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor. Many ...
25 Nov 2009 19:59:49 GMT National: Political briefing: Britain under water: how the state responded
In imperial China a surfeit of floods, famines and earthquakes was usually taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor. Many ...
24 Nov 2009 09:13:11 GMT School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
BEIJING -- A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's devastating earthquake in ...
24 Nov 2009 04:47:01 GMT REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE. REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE. A woman cries as she cannot find her four-year-old daughter and husband on the top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan ...
23 Nov 2009 06:12:53 GMT China quake activist jailed for three years (Adds Amnesty International, lawyer, paragraphs 10-11, 15)
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A Chinese dissident who tried to help victims of last year's Sichuan earthquake was jailed ...
16 Nov 2009 23:21:39 GMT SCHOOLS VULNERABLE TO QUAKES
Beijing will finish reinforcing and rebuilding its 3,000 schools and kindergartens against major earthquakes in three years, the government's construction commission said yesterday.
09 Nov 2009 04:25:43 GMT Helping quake victims to rebuild
IN May last year, a massive earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale flattened buildings and killed thousands in Sichuan, China. The Malaysian Red Crescent Society has since contributed its efforts to restore healthcare facilities to ...
