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1. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   Quake-hit Yaan to see heavy rainfall, disaster risks raised

   Posted Apr 29th 2013, 01:02pm by Ernest Kao

   ... spokesman Chen Zhenlin said in a press briefing on Sunday. The city was at the epicentre of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit on April 20, killing at least 196 people. Chen said increased rainfall ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1225898/quake-hit-yaan-see-heavy-rainfall-disaster-risks-raised
2. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   Outpouring of sympathy online for sacked official in quake zone

   Posted Apr 27th 2013, 12:00am by Keith Zhai

   ... from a relief work site at Hengxi village, making him the first official to lose his job in the wake of Saturday's magnitude 7 earthquake. But Yang's removal attracted sympathy from ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1224186/outpouring-sympathy-online-sacked-official-quake-zone
3. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   Yaan noodle shop slammed for 'price gouging' amid crisis

   Posted Apr 25th 2013, 11:47am by Ernest Kao

   ... vendors and small businesses in Yaan have been accused of hiking up their prices since the 7-magnitude earthquake hit the Sichuan city on Saturday, killing at least 196 people. According ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1222713/yaan-noodle-shop-slammed-price-gouging-amid-crisis
4. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   Victims fear cadres padding quake losses

   Posted Apr 27th 2013, 12:00am by Keith Zhai

   ... losses Residents of Lushan county in Sichuan province, the epicentre of Saturday's magnitude 7 earthquake that has claimed at least 196 lives, say they are concerned about corruption after ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1224180/victims-fear-cadres-padding-quake-losses
5. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   Rebuilding fears worry Baoxing quake victims

   Posted Apr 25th 2013, 12:00am by Keith Zhai

   ... to office" Xinhua said, adding the new leaders had made relief work a "priority" and had "stood the test" of the disaster.   View Yaan Earthquake in a larger map   ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1222464/baoxing-county-frets-over-compensation-sichuan-quake
6. News - Hong Kong

   CY Leung to ask Legco for HK$100m quake donation

   Posted Apr 22nd 2013, 02:37pm by Lai Ying-kit

   ... the government’s funding request. A 7.0-magnitude quake hit the mountainous Yaan area – 140 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital Chengdu — on Saturday. By Monday, the death toll from the quake ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1220612/cy-leung-will-ask-legco-hk100m-quake-relief-donation
7. News - China

   Car horns to signal period of public mourning for Sichuan quake victims

   Posted Apr 26th 2013, 12:36pm by Staff reporter and Agence France Presse

   ... the time the devastating earthquake hit. A silent tribute will follow and last 3 minutes, according to the notice. The provincial government issued a notice that all entertainment activities throughout the province would be halted in public places on Saturday. The strong earthquake has claimed nearly 200 lives and destroyed about 126,000 homes, according to official figures. On Friday ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1223649/car-horns-signal-period-public-mourning-sichuan-quake-victims
8. News - China - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

   One man's thousand-mile journey to reach his family in Sichuan quake zone

   Posted Apr 26th 2013, 03:23pm by Agence France Presse

   ... Agence France Presse Construction worker Xia Donghai 'filled with terror' at news of earthquake Moments after the start of his daily grind as a construction worker in northern China, Xia Donghai’s world came crashing down with news that a terrifying earthquake had struck his hometown almost a thousand miles away. With all communications down in Lushan county ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1223754/one-mans-thousand-mile-journey-reach-his-family-sichuan-quake-zone
9. Comment - Blogs

   Sichuan quake: Another aftershock came ... Houses shook violently

   Posted Apr 24th 2013, 04:30pm by Zhuang Pinghui

   ... Zhuang Pinghui SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui on the day the Sichuan earthquake struck When photographer Simon Song and I arrived in Chengdu on Friday night for a five-day trip to revisit the worst-hit areas of the May 12 earthquake of 2008, the last thing we expected was to be there for the live reporting of a new one. Saturday, April 20 I had just got down to the hotel restaurant ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1222183/sichuan-quake-another-aftershock-came-houses-shook-violently
10. Comment - Blogs

    Sichuan quake: Food supplies finally arrived, but still it wasn't enough

    Posted Apr 24th 2013, 05:58pm by Zhuang Pinghui

    ... Zhuang Pinghui SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui on day three of the Sichuan earthquake In the final part of SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui's account of the Sichuan earthquake, she reveals how the shell-shocked community of Longmen village came together to bury the dead. Monday, April 22 More rescue materials arrived during the night and the next morning the town centre ...

    http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1222212/sichuan-quake-food-supplies-finally-arrived-still-it-wasnt-enough

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