Tag Archives: natural disasters

Sinica Week of Floods

This is the Sinica Week, a summary of the most important China stories from the last seven days. Sinica is a weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn. On each week’s Sinica podcast, guests … Continue reading

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The Beijing deluge of 2012

Xinhua reported on Monday morning that the death toll after torrential rains pounded Beijing on Saturday had climbed to 37. The report said that “Among the victims, 25 were drowned, six were killed in house collapses, one by lightening strike and five … Continue reading

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Mudslide in Yunnan; Beijing issues local advisory

A landslide in Puladi (普拉底), Yunnan Province, kills one and leaves 90 missing. Landslides are likely in Beijing’s outer districts for the next three days. Natural disasters are likely in southwest China for the next several years.

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80,000 Peking ducks killed in tornado

The Beijing News (新京报): A tornado-like wind struck Beijing’s suburban Shunyi County in July 4. A poultry farm suffered heavy losses with about eighty thousand of its ducks killed when their pens collapsed.

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Getting supplies to the epicenter

CCTV footage showing PLA soldiers assembling pontoon bridges to give access to Wenchuan to transport relief workers and supplies.

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Burma cyclone eye witness accounts

Two eye witness eye accounts from the cyclone in Burma.

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Wen Jiabao with a loudhailer

CCTV segment showing Wen Jiabao with a loudhailer encouraging victims of the earthquake in Sichuan (Chinese only).

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Remembering the Tangshan earthquake of 1976

A 1983 news article written after the first foreign reporters visited Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake there.

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Xinhua: Earthquake death toll nearly 10,000

Xinhua reports on the Sichuan earthquake.

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Earthquake in China

Breaking news: an earthquake in China, affecting Beijing

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