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Quake tragedy in China opens door slightly for media, new and old
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Star-Telegram
- 9 Hours ago
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BEIJING Amid a national outpouring of grief over Monday's huge earthquake, China has relaxed its grip - perhaps only briefly - on the Internet and some media outlets. Chinese witnesses to the devastation in Sichuan province have flooded Web sites with homemade videos, filled chat rooms with commenta
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China's Hu says quake relief government's top priority
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China Military Online
- 14 Hours ago
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BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese leader Hu Jintao urged governments at all levels to regard earthquake rescue and relief as the top priority at a high profile meeting late Monday evening. Hu, state President and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), pre
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China Quake Shows Flaws in Building Boom
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KTTV Fox 11
- 17 Hours ago
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Residents look on as paramilitary police officers search through the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, in China's southwest Sichuan province Wednesday May. 14, 2008. The official death toll from Monday's earthquake reached almost 15,000 Wednesday, with many thousands more missing. (AP Ph
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Troops hike to quake-buried Chinese villages
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Post Star
- 18 Hours ago
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Wang Jiaowen - Associated Press Rescuers carry a child out of the debris of collapsed buildings after the earthquake in Beichuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday. To order copies of staff-produced photos from The Post-Star, please visit http://reprints.poststar.com/. MIANYANG,
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China intensifies quake rescue but hopes dim
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SABC
- 20 Hours ago
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China ordered fresh waves of helicopters and aid into earthquake-devastated areas as severed roads, aftershocks and the sheer magnitude of 15 000 or more dead defied increasingly desperate rescue efforts. The Communist Party leadership ordered officials to 'ensure social stability' as Monday's 7.9 m
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China warns of burst dams as quake death toll rises
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ABS-CBN News
- 21 Hours ago
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AM China warns of burst dams as quake death toll rises DUJIANGYAN, China - The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on Wednesday, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point.Tens of thousands of troop
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China Quake Toll Nears 15,000
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Prensa Latina
- 23 Hours ago
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Beijing, May 14 (Prensa Latina) The number of victims of an earthquake that shook Sichuan province in China last Monday is almost at 15,000, authorized sources reported on Monday. These sources, mentioned by Xinhua agency, reported that at 14:00 local hour the death toll was at 14,866 in Sichaun, 28
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China Turns Down Offer of Australia Rescue Experts
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Epoch Times
- 5/16/2008
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CANBERRA-Beijing has turned down an offer from Australia to send search and rescue experts to help with locating survivors following China's massive earthquake. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wrote to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao with the offer yesterday in the wake of an earthquake that has left at least
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Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 43,318
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Xinhua News Agency
- 5/16/2008
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Children eat rice that was donated, in their destroyed home near Kundangon May 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery>>> Children eat rice that was donated, in their destroyed home near Kundangon May 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery>>> YANGON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of
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Chinese shares open 3.07% lower after Sichuan earthquake
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China.com
- 5/16/2008
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BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares open 3.07 percent lower on Tuesday, reacting to the strong earthquake happened in southwest China on Monday afternoon. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, opened at 3,515.71 points, down 3.07 percent. The Shenzhen Compo
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