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  • Expats donate 500,000 yuan
  • SOME 800 overseas residents from more than 20 countries and regions in Pudong's Green City donated about 500,000 yuan (US$71,429) to the victims of the earthquake yesterday. The residents all gave spontaneously...
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  • Information from space
  • CHINESE ground controllers have initiated an emergency response program to ensure that 15 of its satellites are providing proper support for the rescue and relief operations. The satellites are providing navigation,...
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  • Pistorius eyes Beijing after CAS boost
  • DOUBLE amputee Oscar Pistorius can try to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after winning his appeal against a ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the South African's lawyer said yesterday. The International...
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    Leaders urge 'utmost efforts' as deaths rise
    2008-5-17
    RESCUERS struggled to pull out survivors, bury the dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless yesterday while a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed...

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    Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army try to move a huge block of concrete in a bid to rescue people trapped in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province, yesterday. Tens of thousands of troops have begun rescue and relief work in quake-hit areas. - Xinhua

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    Blood donors urged to register
    SHANGHAI Blood Center and Shanghai Volunteer Association are appealing for local people to donate blood. So far the city has plenty of blood, but is suffering a lack of platelet. About 2,000 people donated...


    Benefit concert for quake victims

    Amazing escape for tour group

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    Business
    Quake to spur insurers to penetrate rural areas
    THE most powerful earthquake in China since 1950 shows the nation's insurance industry is decades behind those of the world's biggest economies. Just 5 percent of the more than US$20 billion of damages from the...


    Bail-out at top of ABC agenda

    Regulator to check out brokers more closely

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    National
    Probe ordered into collapse of schools
    CHINA'S Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has ordered local authorities to investigate why school buildings collapsed in the earthquake, Yang Rong, director of the ministry's department of standards...


    Maintaining health a priority for survivors

    Signs of life give workers new optimism

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    World
    Al-Qaida to 'continue its war'
    AL-QAIDA leader Osama bin Laden said in a new audio message released yesterday that the terrorist organization will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine. The terrorist...


    Woman charged over MySpace suicide

    Army bounds ahead to cull rogue kangaroos

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    Sport
    Ronaldo hints he may quit United
    MANCHESTER United's Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted he could leave the club once the season is over. Ronaldo said he would consider his future after United plays Chelsea in the Champions League final - the club's...


    Federer seals Hamburg semis berth

    Spurs force Game 7 with Hornets win

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    Feature
    Signing up all the big names
    XU Genshun is quick to acknowledge he is an ordinary Shanghai citizen. But as a result of his passion, many of the people he has dealt with are nothing short of extraordinary, writes Yao Minji Xu Genshun remembers...


    Keeping Hangzhou on its toes

    Pristine northern Nordic paradise

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    Opinion
  • Anger management 101: Don't blow your top
  • WE all experience anger, and we feel it for many reasons: frustration, loss of control, sadness, feeling we don't get what we deserve, and so on. Anger is normal and healthy, part of our fight-or-flight response. ...


  • If there's a ray of hope, we'll not give up
  • PRESIDENT Hu Jintao flew to quake-ravaged Sichuan Province early yesterday, more than 80 hours after one of the most devastating earthquakes in new China with death toll already hitting nearly 20,000. This shows...


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