Category Archives: Disaster Relief

Landslide in Gansu

The Strait Herald, like most other newspapers, brings images of the disaster in Zhouqu, Gansu.

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How monks aided in the Yushu earthquake relief effort

A translation by Dave Camp of a Southern Weekly report on the work of local Yushu lamas in the earthquake relief effort.

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Mourning the victims of the Yushu Earthquake

How the Chinese media and Internet users are memorializing the Yushu earthquake.

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Concern for students in the Qinghai earthquake

China National Radio says that according to the Red Cross, 70% of schools in Yushu have collapsed.

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Xinhua recaps the Wangjialing mine disaster and rescue

The Xinhua Daily Telegraph devotes an entire front page to a narrative of the March 28 mine flood and ensuing relief effort: 115 rescued, 33 dead, 5 still missing as of noon Sunday.

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Sixteen years after a miraculous rescue

The Chongqing Evening News talks to a man who dug himself out of a landslide over the course of 40 days sixteen years ago.

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More miners rescued in Shanxi

Commercial papers announce that 115 miners were saved; the People’s Daily trumpets Hu Jintao’s instructions.

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Lesbians face blood donation discrimination

On May 28th les+ magazine, a volunteer magazine supported by the largest lesbian group in Beijing, posted an article on their online blog called “LES blood donors, where are you?” criticizing a ban on lesbian blood donors during a crucial time. Gay men have been formally recognized by the central government as a high-risk group for contracting HIV, and are thus are excluded from donating blood.

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Earthquake survivors Yan Guangbing and Zhang Xinmu

Human stories from the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake.

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Carpetbaggers

A calling plan ad invokes Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao’s efforts during the disaster.

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