Category Archives: Disaster Relief

Quake relief and volunteering opportunities

Two expatriate run quake relief projects worth considering.

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Preserving the Premier’s chalk marks

Wen Jiabao writes 多难兴邦 on a blackboard in Beichuan. It is to be preserved as a cultural relic.

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A native Burmese account of the cyclone aftermath

An eye witness account of disaster relief in Myanmar / Burma.

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Earthquake update

A roundup of news about the Sichuan earthquake and the aftershocks on May 25.

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Compassion, logistics, and nerves begin to fray in Chengdu

A report on the earthquake relief effort as exhaustion sets in.

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Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake?

SF writer and Xinhua journalist Han Song asks how we know that the Tangshan Earthquake really happened.

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