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| Volunteers help heal young minds |
| EVERY morning when 11-year-old Yang Xiaolong wakes up, the first thing he does is run to a tent in a nearby field and yell "Good morning" to two young Americans.
Sometimes he and his friends play a joke on the... |
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| Journalist's gift of light and hope |
| A SHANGHAI Daily editor has collected 2,800 flashlights for the earthquake areas after he launched a donation campaign.
The Shanghai Civil Affair Bureau has agreed to transport the flashlights to the quake-hit... |
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| Coal stocks fall below safe level |
| CHINA'S stockpiles of coal, used to generate almost 80 percent of the country's power, dropped below the government's "caution line" in some central provinces while electricity is being restored to quake-hit Sichuan... |
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| Ma Yuanjiang, a deputy department chief of the Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant, is carried by rescuers from Shanghai after being pulled from the debris of the plant in Yingxiu, in southwest China's Sichuan Province yesterday. The 31-year-old quake survivor was found after being trapped for 179 hours (nearly seven and a half days) in the flattened power plant at the epicenter of the May 12 devastating earthquake. Ma was reportedly in a stable condition last night. - Li Fu |
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THE death toll from the devastating earthquake rose to 40,075 nationwide at 6pm yesterday, as rescuers found another survivor eight days after the huge tremor hit.
A total of 32,360 people were still missing,... |
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| Coverage raises ethics queries
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THE disaster in Sichuan has resulted in an unprecedented media presence.
The reporters have done salutary service in keeping the rest of the nation alive to what is happening there, but their presence also raises...
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IF you have only one child and he or she dies, you grieve.
If you have two children and only one dies, you grieve less.
If you have three children and only one dies, you grieve even less.
If you have...
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WHEN the earthquake struck during school hours, the quality of school building design and construction can be a matter of life and death.
Liuhan Hope Primary School, only 7.5 kilometers from devastated Beichuan...
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AT a time when virtually all Chinese are doing their bit to help earthquake survivors, the penny-pinching behavior of some real estate tycoons is deplorable.
According to one recent survey, of the 100 richest people...
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