Rain hampers china’s efforts to drain quake created lake to prevent flood
CHENGDU, China: Rain grounded helicopters and hampered attempts Thursday to drain an earthquake-created lake in central China threatening to flood disaster victims. The new Tangjiashan lake above the city of Beichuan was formed by a landslide triggered by the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck May 12, blocking a river. The lake has been rising by several yards (meters) a day. With roads to the area...
Relief work worsens as death toll reaches 62,000 in china due to aftershocks
The death toll from the May 12 earthquake in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has claimed 62,664 lives and left 358,816 injured and 23,775 missing as of 00:00 a.m. Sunday, according to the State Council Information Office. Guo Weimin, director of the State Council Information Office, announced the latest official statistics concerning the Wenchuan quake on behalf of the State Council General...
China earthquake aftershocks created panic
A LUOSHUI TOWN state tv reported as troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000. Thousands of residents poured onto the streets of areas near the epicentre and in...
Chinese Govt. and Monks blame each other for the riots and protests
SHANGHAI — After two weeks in which China contended that Tibet’s government in exile had instigated the riots earlier this month to tarnish the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government on Sunday issued for the first time what it said was evidence of the plot. Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said the Chinese police had a confession written by an unidentified monk who they said...
HSBC to start private banking in beijing, shanghai in china
March 31 - HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, started private banking services in China as rising demand from the nation’s growing ranks of millionaires helps counter slower growth in U.S. and Europe. The bank will open the business in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, it said in a statement today. HSBC will target customers with a net worth of at least $10 million. HSBC...
Dalai Lama calls for an end to violence
More than 100 people have turned themselves in to police following anti-China riots in Tibet’s main city, Lhasa, Chinese state media has said. People surrendered to secure leniency in response to a deadline set by the authorities, Xinhua news agency said. China had said it would harshly punish those who failed to surrender. Police in Lhasa have been searching houses and making arrests, activists...
