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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
Posted in Health and Medicine, Sinica Week, Urban Culture and Cities
Tagged Beijing, CNOOC, Danwei.com, floods, natural disasters
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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
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Urban Culture and Cities, Wildlife, Nature and the Environment
Tagged Beijing, Beijing Daily, Danwei.com, floods, natural disasters, rain
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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.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Beijing, natural disasters, Peking Duck, The Beijing News, tornado, weather
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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.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged earthquake, natural disasters, PLA, Sichuan, Wenchuan
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Burma cyclone eye witness accounts
Two eye witness eye accounts from the cyclone in Burma.
Posted in China's neighborhood
Tagged Burma, cyclone, Myanmar, Nargis, natural disasters, Rangoon, Yangon
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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).
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged earthquake, natural disasters, Sichuan, Wenchuan, Wenjiabao
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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.
Posted in The Earnshaw Vault
Tagged 1976, earthquakes, natural disasters, Sichuan, Tangshan
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Xinhua: Earthquake death toll nearly 10,000
Xinhua reports on the Sichuan earthquake.
Posted in State media
Tagged earthquakes, natural disasters, Sichuan, Xinhua
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Earthquake in China
Breaking news: an earthquake in China, affecting Beijing
Posted in Breaking News
Tagged Beijing, earthquakes, natural disasters, Sichuan
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