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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taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor.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taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor.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 ...

25 Nov 2009 11:33:30 GMT
Helping China pick up the pieces; U.S. companies aid quake victims with time, money
DUJIANGYAN, China Louis Choi sees ghosts. They are in the heaps of concrete that once sheltered school children. They are in the new school buildings in recovering Sichuan province. They are in his dreams.

24 Nov 2009 10:01:30 GMT
China quake dissident gets 3 years; Beijing jails activist on state secrets charges; advised parents on shoddy school construction after deaths of 5,000 children
BEIJING -- An 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 ...

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 ...

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