The quake in numbers
Posted 14 minutes ago
Confirmed death toll as of Friday 2 p.m.: 22,069 Number of injured from quake: 168,669 Number still hospitalized from injuries: 64,040 Allocations in government earthquake relief: $500 million U.S. Domestic private donations in cash and goods: $454 million US Emergency... [Link]

e-Channel service extends to frequent visitors
Posted 19 minutes ago
The Immigration Department will extend its e-channel service to frequent Hong Kong visitors from May 19. [Link]

GFS joins Sichuan rescue effort
Posted 19 minutes ago
A five-member Government Flying Service team has left for Sichuan province to help with rescue and relief work for earthquake victims. [Link]

US declines to cite China as a currency manipulator - MSN MoneyCentral
Posted 25 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has declined to cite China for manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages against the United States. The finding announced Thursday came despite pressure in Congress for penalties because of ... [Link]

Suu Kyi's party rejects Myanmar vote result
Posted 28 minutes ago
YANGON - Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party Saturday rejected the Myanmar government's claim that more than 92 percent of voters approved a military-backed constitution in the first round of a referendum last week. [Link]

HK sends flying service staff for relief efforts in quake-hit SW China
Posted 33 minutes ago
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government sent a team of five staff from the Government Flying Service early Saturday morning to earthquake- devastated southwest China's Sichuan Province to provide assistance in the rescue ... [Link]

Chinese employees at UN donate over $30,000 to aid quake victims
Posted 34 minutes ago
The UN's Chinese staff members made a first donation of over 30,000 U.S. dollars on Friday to the victims in China's earthquake-stricken regions. The contribution, largely in the form of personal checks, was presented by Xie Jiahui, ... [Link]

No major outbreaks of epidemics reported in China quake zone
Posted 35 minutes ago
There have been no major outbreaks of epidemics and other public health hazards in China's quake zone, the Ministry of Health said Saturday. The ministry said 34,000 medical workers and disease control staff were working in the quak ... [Link]

Chinese troops rescue 18 scientists from forest in quake area
Posted 35 minutes ago
Chinese troops evacuated 18 scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) trapped in a forest in Mianzhu, a quake-hit area in southwest China's Sichuan province and escorted them to a safe place. The experts, among dozens of ... [Link]

Five Korean students rescued in epicenter area
Posted 37 minutes ago
Chinese military doctors rescued five students from the Republic of Korea in Wenchuan, the epicenter of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province and helicoptered them to the provincial capital of Chengdu Saturday morning. ... [Link]

Japanese rescue team heads for Beichuan
Posted 39 minutes ago
The second group of Japanese earthquake rescuers joined their colleagues working China Saturday morning and they left quake-hit Qingchuan County for Beichuan, another worst-hit county in Sichuan Province to continue rescue operations. ... [Link]

Canada provides $1 mln to China's quake relief
Posted 40 minutes ago
Canada is contributing 1 million U.S. dollars to support the International Red Cross's effort on emergency quake relief in China, it was announced Friday. International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda and Foreign Affairs Minister Maxim ... [Link]

German tourist pulled out of rubble 114 hrs after quake
Posted 40 minutes ago
A German tourist was Saturday pulled out of the wreckage of a house alive by Chinese soldiers in Wenchuan county at the epicenter, 114 hours after the deadly earthquake. His first name was pronounced as "Bergdahl", according to a Xi ... [Link]

Australia to give 1 mln dollars in aid to China's Sichuan
Posted 41 minutes ago
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced on Saturday Australia will contribute 1 million Australian dollars (0.94 million U.S. dollars) to support emergency relief efforts in China's earthquake-ravaged Sichuan Province. S ... [Link]

46 injured need evacuation as lake burst imminent at China quake zone
Posted 42 minutes ago
Forty-six seriously injured people need to be evacuated immediately in Beichuan county at the epicenter of the Sichuan quake, where the water level of a lake is rising rapidly and the lake may burst at any time, soldiers at the site has war ... [Link]

Chinese, Russian, Indian, Brazilian FMs stress multilateralism in ... - Xinhua News Agency
Posted 56 minutes ago
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The foreign ministers of China, Russia, India and Brazil on Friday stressed multilateral cooperation and diplomacy in dealing with global affairs. The four top diplomats, who met in the central Russian city ... [Link]

In a twist, Houston's Farouk Systems shifts jobs from China to US - Houston Chronicle
Posted 56 minutes ago
Hair care products maker Farouk Shami wants to turn on its head the old story about manufacturing jobs migrating to cheap labor markets. Shami's privately held Houston company, Farouk Systems, manufactures hairstyling appliances in China and South ... [Link]

German Tourist Saved After Being Buried for Nearly Five Days in China ... - FOX News
Posted 56 minutes ago
May 16: Local residents evacuate from quake-hit Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province. May 16: Local residents evacuate from quake-hit Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province. BEICHUAN, China — A German tourist was ... [Link]

Five Korean students rescued in epicenter area
Posted 57 minutes ago
CHINESE military doctors rescued five students from the Republic of Korea in Wenchuan, the epicenter of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province and took them to the provincial capital of Chengdu... [Link]

Survivors found five days after China quake - Washington Post
Posted 68 minutes ago
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday. Many survivors were ... [Link]

Chinese news agency says German saved after 114 hours - Miami Herald
Posted 83 minutes ago
Chinese state news agency says that German tourist has been rescued after being buried for 114 hours in earthquake rubble. The official Xinhua News Agency said the tourist was saved in Wenchuan, the epicenter of Monday's massive earthquake. The ... [Link]

In China, Skittish Pandas, Then Exploding Cliffs
Posted 86 minutes ago
Foreign tourists described an escape from Monday’s earthquake made possible by panda keepers’ heroism. [Link]

Glimpses of Survivors, Miraculous and Few, in Earthquake’s Ruins
Posted 86 minutes ago
Chinese officials said rescuers were still finding survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 22,000 people. [Link]

Australia to give 1 mln dollars in aid to China's Sichuan - Xinhua News Agency
Posted 87 minutes ago
CANBERRA, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced on Saturday Australia will contribute 1 million Australian dollars (0.94 million U.S. dollars) to support emergency relief efforts in China's earthquake-ravaged Sichuan ... [Link]

China Backs Myanmar in Resisting Demands to Take Aid (Update4) - Bloomberg
Posted 87 minutes ago
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- China is backing Myanmar as it resists pressure from the U.S. and other nations to admit more relief workers and supplies to help as many as 2.5 million cyclone victims at risk of disease and hunger. Other countries must show ... [Link]

In China, Skittish Pandas, Then Exploding Cliffs - New York Times
Posted 87 minutes ago
CHENGDU, China — The birds suddenly disappeared from the sky. Something also was wrong with the pandas. They were strangely skittish. And then, within minutes, the isolated, verdant mountains above China’s most famous panda reserve exploded as if ... [Link]

China leader spurs rescue effort - BBC News
Posted 87 minutes ago
Almost five million people have been left homeless by Monday's devastating quake in the south-western province, officials say. So far, 22,069 deaths have been confirmed and thousands remain missing. It is feared up to 50,000 may be dead. Visiting the ... [Link]

JPMorgan Chase: quake not to dampen China corporate profit - Xinhua News Agency
Posted 87 minutes ago
BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Profit for China's listed companies may grow 20 percent this year despite the strong quake that shook southwest China, according to a senior official with JPMorgan Chase. "The quake would have limited effect on the ... [Link]

German tourist rescued 114 hours after quake
Posted 94 minutes ago
A GERMAN tourist was pulled out of the wreckage of a house alive by Chinese soldiers today in Wenchuan county at the epicenter, 114 hours after the deadly earthquake. His first name was pronounced as "Bergdahl,"... [Link]

Survivors emerge as China quake rescue intensifies
Posted 114 minutes ago
MIANYANG, China - With survivors still emerging from the rubble Saturday nearly 115 hours after disaster struck, rescue teams waged an increasingly desperate battle to find victims of China's earthquake which has claimed an estimated 50,000 lives. [Link]