Panda reserve mulls moving after quake damage

The world’s most famous panda reserve wants to find a new home after its current one was badly damaged by this month’s deadly earthquake in China. read more | digg story

Sharon Stone apologises for China quake karma remark

Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologized for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad karma for its jailing of violent Tibet secessionists, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads amid a public uproar. The 50-year-old US actress also offered to help with relief efforts after the May 12 quake that killed almost 80,000 people.

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China Earthquake Lake Forms [img]

Satellite images taken by the Taiwan’s National Space Organisation (NSPO) show one such lake forming in Beichuan County, one of the areas worst hit by the quake.

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Updates on May 29, 2008

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23 People were rescued 16 days after the earthquake in Qingping County. For details in Chinese:

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Updates May 29, 2008

• Death:68,516 as of 12 p.m. Thursday
• A total of 365,399 people were injured and 19,350 others were missing.
• 158,000 people have already evacuated in the most imminent danger from any breach of the lake at Tangjiashan, one of the 34 quake-created barrier lakes.
• 15.15 million affected people in the quake zones have been evacuated.

 

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Sichuan earthquake videos

• Youtube videos on China earthquakes

Here is the link to all the videos of earthquake in Sichuan on youtube.

• AP videos

AP video achieve

• CNN videos

Video archive on China earthquake from cnn

Rain causes more trouble to drain the lake from quake

Rain causes more trouble to drain the lake from quake, read the AP report here:

China speeds up earthquake insurance

The tragedy of Sichuan earthquake also indicated the desperately needs of diaster insurance.  Read New York times report how China government is trying to do here.