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China earthquake stories: 53 news summaries

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 Chinese Pandas 
 to Head Home 
 After Quake 
 Fixup 

Rare animals will return to Sichuan preserve by 2012

Sep 21, 09 6:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sixty giant pandas displaced after a massive earthquake rocked China last year will head home to their nature preserve, reports Xinhua. China is pouring $55 million into rebuilding the endangered animals' Sichuan Province base that previously housed 63 pandas. One died in the quake, one went missing, and one died... More »

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Sichuan province • Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center • China earthquake • giant pandas

China Censors Artist Leading Quake Inquiry

Police stake out whistleblower's studio, shut down blog

Jul 13, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese artist who has made investigating the deaths of children in the Sichuan earthquake a personal crusade is facing a government crackdown, reports the CBC. Ai Weiwei's widely read blog has been deleted, and plainclothes police officers are staking out his studio in Beijing. Ai has relaunched his blog... More »

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China • Chinese art • art • censorship • 2008 Beijing Olympics • death toll • Olympic Games • earthquake • Internet censorship • disaster • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Birds Nest National Stadium • Ai Weiwei • Olympic Stadium

 Quake Survivors 
 Find Love 
 Among 
 the Ruins 

Hundreds remarry in quake-devastated Chinese city

May 13, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A year after the quake that devastated China's Sichuan province, many survivors have new loves if not new homes, the Guardian reports. In Beichuan—where only 4,000 of the town's 22,000 people survived—some 600 widows and widowers have remarried, and the government hopes more will soon follow... More »

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China • marriage • disaster zones • Sichuan province • China earthquake • widows

Artist Presses China on Child Quake Victims

A year after disaster,
Ai Weiwei leads efforts to account for the dead

May 12, 09 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - China today marked one year since the Sichuan earthquake that left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing. But the government has still not published results of an investigation, and parents whose children died in shoddily constructed schools have faced police intimidation. The parents have found an unlikely advocate, Time... More »

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China • parents • Hu Jintao • earthquake • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Ai Weiwei

(Newser) - The devastation is still raw from the earthquake that snuffed out thousands of young lives in rural China a year ago, reports the Los Angeles Times, but many grieving parents have found new hope in the form of another baby. More than 10% of new mothers in one Sichuan Province... More »

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China • birth control • birth rate • population control • Sichuan province • China earthquake • one-child policy

 Dam May Have 
 Triggered 
 China Quake 

Weight of water may have triggered the earthquake early

Feb 6, 09 12:22 PM CST
(Newser) - The damming-up of 320 million tons of water in a reservoir above a geological fault line may have contributed to the earthquake that left 80,000 dead or missing last year in China’s Sichuan province, US and Chinese geologists say. Whether or not the scientists are right, the suggestion... More »

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China • hydroelectric power • Sichuan province • China earthquake • seismology

 Quake-Bereft Chinese 
 Sow New Baby Boom 

Parents who lost state-mandated only child rush to conceive again

Dec 4, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Some parents who lost their state-mandated only child in China’s May earthquake—which crushed at least 19,000 students under shoddy school buildings—are rushing to conceive again, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Chinese government announced an exemption from its one-child policy for such victims, and more than... More »

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China • children • parents • Sichuan province • China earthquake • one-child policy

2,000 Chinese Rioters Mob Gov't Building in Quake Dispute

Violence erupts over unresponsive officials

Nov 18, 08 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - An angry mob of some 2,000 people stormed Communist Party headquarters in a city in China's Gansu province last night to protest a decision to move the town's quake-damaged administrative center. The protest turned violent when officials refused to listen to complaints that families would have to move to... More »

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China • protests • Gansu province • protesters • Chinese Communist party • China earthquake

China Admits Quake-Hit Schools Were Poorly Built

But government warns parents to silence criticism

Sep 4, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese official admitted today that shoddy construction led to the collapse of some schools during last May’s earthquake, which killed thousands of children. “The structures were not necessarily reasonable and the materials were not necessarily strong enough,” the chairman of the government’s quake probe conceded,... More »

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China • parents • construction safety • Sichuan province • China earthquake

Deadly Quake Hits
Southwest China

22 killed in Sichuan, Yunnan Province

Aug 31, 08 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 5.7 earthquake struck an area near Panzhihua City in southwest China yesterday, killing at least 22 people and destroying 1,000 homes in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, reports the Los Angeles Times. Rescue teams were racing to the area to help at least 126 injured. Heavy rains... More »

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China • earthquake • Sichuan province • China earthquake

 6.0 Quake Shakes
 China's Sichuan

Olympic torch had just completed tour of temblor-ravaged area

Aug 5, 08 8:07 AM CDT
(AP) - A 6.0 earthquake today rattled China's Sichuan province, which was devastated by a more powerful quake in May, the US Geological Survey said. One person was killed, reports CNN, and five seriously injured. The tremblor is the latest of numerous aftershocks from the 7.9 quake that struck Sichuan... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • earthquake • China earthquake

Chinese Teacher Sent to Labor Camp Over Quake Dissent

Man posted photos
of collapsed schools

Jul 30, 08 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labor camp for a year of "re-education" after he posted online photos of school buildings that collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake, the Guardian reports. The man, who was neither formally charged with a crime nor given a trial, is one of... More »

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labor camp • dissent • China earthquake

China Pushes 'Hush Money'
on Grieving
Quake Parents

Pressured to stop questioning school toll

Jul 24, 08 3:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in China's Sichuan province are buying the silence of parents who lost children in May's devastating earthquake, the New York Times reports. Grieving parents are being pressured to sign agreements accepting $9,000 in compensation if they stop asking questions about why so many schools collapsed. They are told... More »

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China • compensation • earthquake • Chinese officials • Sichuan province • China earthquake

 Chinese
 School-Collapse
 Critic Busted as Spy 

Activist detained after trying to help bereaved parents

Jul 11, 08 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An activist who tried to help bereaved Sichuan parents get answers about why so many schools collapsed in May's earthquake has been arrested, the New York Times reports. Huang Qi was taken away by plainclothes police after posting information about the parents on his website. He has been accused of... More »

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China • school • Chinese officials • human rights activists • Sichuan province • China earthquake

Mother Nature's Wrath Creates Prosperity

Disasters spur economic growth,
but at what cost?

Jul 8, 08 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Casualties aside, natural disasters may not be so devastating after all. Catastrophes like the recent earthquake in China destroy old buildings and roads, making way for new and improved infrastructure that may not have been created otherwise and pumping cash into the economy. In the long term, updated technology and... More »

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flood • Chinese economy • natural disaster • hurricane • Tsunami • economy • rebuilding • China earthquake

 China Quake Beat the Odds 

Unusual seismic conditions led to disaster, scientists say

Jun 30, 08 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The earthquake that leveled parts of China’s Sichuan province last month was a geological oddity arising from usually inactive faults, LiveScience reports. The bizarre seismological coincidences behind the quake explain why no one was able to predict the event, which claimed 69,000 lives. More »

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China • Tibet • tectonic plates • earthquake • Sichuan province • China earthquake • seismology

Breastfeeding Officer Sparks Debate in China

'Police mum' promoted for helping orphaned babies in quake

Jun 22, 08 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - A policewoman has sparked debate in Beijing after breastfeeding nine orphaned babies during last month's earthquake, Reuters reports. Officials have promoted Jiang Xiaojuan, 30, calling her "hero and model police officer," but others argue that merit, not deeds, should lead to promotion. Xiaojuan left her baby at home... More »

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China • police • promotion • breast feeding • orphan • Sichuan province • China earthquake

 Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus 

Chinese graphic novelist tells stories from the disaster zone

Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger... More »

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China • Beijing • blogging • blog • artist • blogger • graphic novel • blogs • China earthquake • blog posts • Coco Wang • Earthquake Strips

 Draining Quake Lake
 Floods China Town 

Soldiers blast holes in dam; 'Now we can never go back,' says survivor

Jun 10, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A town devastated by the Sichuan earthquake was flooded today as soldiers worked to drain a dangerous quake lake, reports Reuters. Water whooshed into Beichuan after explosives and missiles were used to blast holes in the dam created by the earthquake. Some 250,000 people downstream had already been evacuated. More »

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flood • dam • disaster zones • earthquake • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Tangjiashan

China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

Couples who abided by one-child policy can get free surgery

Jun 6, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - China will send medical teams to areas hit by last month’s earthquake to reverse sterilization procedures for couples who want to have another child, Xinhua reports. The Sichuan family planning agency is providing free surgery and counseling to couples who were once sterilized in accordance with the nation's one-child... More »

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China • reproductive rights • surgery • reproduction • family • quake • one child policy • China earthquake

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