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1. News - China - DISASTER

   83 buried under rubble after landslide in Tibet

   Posted Mar 30th 2013, 12:00am by Mimi Lau

   ... News China Tibet Landslide Mimi Lau mimi.lau@scmp.com Disaster at copper mine leaves debris strewn over area of up to four square kilometres More than 80 workers were feared dead last night after being buried under rubble by a landslide which struck a Tibetan mine. About two million cubic metres of mud, rock and debris gave way and rolled down a slope in Lhasa's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1202907/83-buried-under-rubble-after-landslide-tibet
2. News - China

   Nineteen children among 46 dead in China landslide

   Posted Jan 12th 2013, 02:09pm by Agence France Presse in Beijing

   ... children. Two other people were hospitalised after the landslide struck on Friday morning, engulfing 16 homes, bringing a thunderous crash and throwing up thick clouds of dust, the official Xinhua ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1126337/nineteen-children-among-46-dead-china-landslide
3. News - China

   All 18 children confirmed dead in Yunnan landslide

   Posted Oct 05th 2012, 10:25am by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

   ... News China Landslide Earthquake Agence France-Presse in Beijing All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on Friday. The landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried the school and three farmhouses in Yunnan province on Thursday as children arrived to make up ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1054404/all-18-children-confirmed-dead-yunnan-landslide
4. News - China - DISASTER

   16 dead as landslide buries China school, thousands help in rescue

   Posted Oct 04th 2012, 01:03pm by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

   ... News China Landslide Yunnan Agence France-Presse in Beijing Sixteen Chinese children were confirmed dead Thursday after a landslide engulfed their school as they made up ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1053675/18-school-pupils-buried-china-landslide-xinhua
5. News - China

   18 children buried as landslide hits school

   Posted Oct 05th 2012, 12:00am by Mimi Lau

   ... Eighteen schoolchildren and a farmer were buried in a landslide in Yunnan province yesterday. By last night, rescuers had pulled the bodies of nine victims from debris after a hillside ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1054089/18-children-buried-landslide-hits-school
6. News - Asia - INDIA

   Floods, landslides displace 1 million in India; 33 dead

   Posted Sep 24th 2012, 04:22pm by Reuters in Guwahati

   ... News Asia Flooding Landslides Reuters in Guwahati Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1046069/floods-landslides-displace-1-million-india-33-dead
7. News - China

   China Digest, February 20, 2013

   Posted Feb 20th 2013, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... Guizhou Landslide buries five Five people, including two children, were buried in a landslide in Kaili on Monday, Xinhua reports. The landslide buried several sheds and dormitories at a coal mine ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1154174/china-digest-february-20-2013
8. News - China - DISASTERS

   Landslide claims lives of 46 villagers in disaster-prone region of Yunnan

   Posted Jan 13th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News China Disaster Landslide Yunnan China Agence France-Presse in Beijing Many were children, in same region where 18 pupils died in October A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in Yunnan province ended yesterday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 - many of them children. Authorities in the southwestern region said ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1126688/landslide-claims-lives-46-villagers-disaster-prone-region-yunnan
9. News - China

   Heavy rain behind the deadly landslide

   Posted Oct 06th 2012, 07:08pm by Associated Press in Beijing

   ... elementary students and one villager in southwestern China, the  Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday. All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead on Friday, while ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1055382/heavy-rain-behind-deadly-landslide
10. News - China - DISASTER

    46 dead as landslide hits village in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan

    Posted Jan 12th 2013, 12:00am by Keith Zhai

    ... News China Landslide Yunan Zhenxiong Natural Disasters Keith Zhai keith.zhai@scmp.com Dozens killed, several still missing as more than 1,100 rescuers battle to reach survivors buried by rubble in remote Yunnan settlement 46 people died when a landslide hit a mountainous region in Yunnan province yesterday, local authorities and mainland media said. Fourteen homes were buried ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1125898/46-dead-landslide-hits-village-zhenxiong-county-yunnan

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