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Thousands await relatives in stadium in China's earthquake zone
Mianyang, China (AFP) May 16, 2008Ten thousand people made homeless by China's earthquake squeezed in this city's gymnasium on Friday, hoping with growing desperation for miraculous reunions with their loved ones. Throughout the day, they gathered in front of constantly updated name lists of new arrivals at this large stadium in southwest Sichuan province, pining for news of family lost for four days. Most were disappointed. ... more Terrified survivors flee quake town of death 
Yingxiu, China (AFP) May 16, 2008Death stalks every street of this ruined town and for the traumatised survivors there is just one overwhelming impulse -- to flee the horror as quickly as possible. Everyone wanted out of Yingxiu, the epicentre of China's horror earthquake, even if that meant taking a slippery mountain path that had disappeared completely at many points under heaps of sharp-edged fallen rocks. ... more Floods leave two dead in Philippines as new storm approaches 
Iloilo, Philippines (AFP) May 16, 2008Two people were washed away by floodwaters and thousands are still in evacuation centres in the central Philippines after days of heavy rains pounded the area, officials said Friday. A new tropical storm was also forming off the northern Philippines, the government weather station said Friday. The storm was not expected to hit the country until Sunday according to weather officials. ... more Dead bodies no threat to disaster victims: WHO 
Manila (AFP) May 16, 2008Contrary to popular belief, dead bodies left from natural disasters such as the China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone are not a source of disease or a health threat to survivors, the World Health Organisation said Friday. Rather, a lack of safe water supplies and poor sanitation were the main epidemic threat in the days after a major catastrophe, Arturo Pesigan in a statement from the WHO's W ... more China's Hu says quake rescue in 'crucial phase' 
Mianyang, China (AFP) May 16, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao flew Friday into one of the areas worst hit by this week's earthquake, vowing no let-up in rescue work from the country's worst disaster in a generation. Hu, who is commander of the People's Liberation Army which has spearheaded relief efforts, was paying his first visit to the zone ravaged by Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, which officials estimate has killed ... more |
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Yangon (AFP) May 15, 2008"Where do they want us to go? We have no house any more, and it is raining," says 30-year-old Gangamani, one of thousands of cyclone victims ordered to leave monasteries where they have been sheltering. Some 1,000 people, both Buddhists and ethnic Indian Hindus, have made a makeshift camp in the grounds of a monastery across the river from Myanmar's main city Yangon. But now the military ... more China says quake toll likely above 50,000 
Yingxiu, China (AFP) May 16, 2008China said Thursday that over 50,000 people had likely died in the devastating earthquake that hit its southwest as time runs out to save survivors buried in the rubble of broken communities. Experts said the search-and-rescue operation was entering its most crucial phase yet four days after the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, with the chances of finding survivors diminishing by the hour. ... more Myanmar moving cyclone survivors into camps: monks 
Yangon (AFP) May 15, 2008Myanmar has moved tens of thousands of homeless cyclone survivors into government-run shelters, pushing them out of monasteries and schools, Buddhist monks from the disaster zone said Thursday. They said people in the hardest-hit parts of the Irrawaddy Delta were relocated by boats and trucks to camps, where it was unclear if they had enough food and water after the storm that left 66,000 deaths ... more Most Myanmar survivors unreached by 'worst' disaster response 
Bangkok (AFP) May 15, 2008Most victims of Myanmar's cyclone remain without emergency food supplies two weeks after the catastrophe, experts said Thursday, with one calling it the worst disaster response in recent memory. Critical supplies are slowly making their way to survivors, but not nearly enough for the up to 2.5 million people who the United Nations says were severely affected by the storm. "I cannot recal ... more China quake zone behind in building safety standards: UN expert 
Geneva (AFP) May 15, 2008The poor regions of southwest China hit by this week's devastating earthquake lag far behind the more developed eastern regions in building safety standards, a top UN disaster official said Thursday. Salvano Briceno, head of the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction agency, told AFP that modern buildings in the boom towns of China's east coast "are built with great care" to with ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2008China said Thursday that no major disease outbreaks had been reported in the earthquake zone but warned that a battle against epidemics was only just beginning as relief workers recovered bodies. Some 10,000 trained medical personnel were working in areas worst-hit by Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake in southwestern Sichuan province, Vice Health Minister Gao Qiang told a press conference. ... more Myanmar cyclone damage worsened by loss of mangroves: FAO 
Rome (AFP) May 15, 2008The destruction of mangrove forests along parts of Myanmar's coast contributed to the damage wreaked by cyclone Nargis, the UN food agency said Thursday. armland and fisheries have replaced many mangrove forests, and people have moved closer to the sea without the "protective forest buffer" provided by mangroves, said forestry expert Jan Heino of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in a ... more British official clarifies Brown comments on Myanmar summit 
London (AFP) May 15, 2008British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street office clarified comments he made earlier Thursday that the United Nations was organising an emergency summit on the Myanmar cyclone disaster. A Downing Street spokeswoman told AFP that Brown was lending his support to a proposal already made for a high-level pledging conference involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ... more China cracks through damaged road to quake epicentre: report 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) May 15, 2008Chinese teams exploded the last rocks on a road into the epicentre of Monday's massive earthquake, state media said Thursday, finally allowing rescuers to bring help to survivors by land. The road from Lixian County, just west of Wenchuan County, the epicentre, was repaired at 9:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Thursday, Xinhua news agency said. Rescuers worked non-stop for two days to clear the road ... more China okays rescuers from Russia, SKorea, Singapore: state media
Beijing (AFP) May 16, 2008China has accepted offers from Russia, South Korea and Singapore to send rescue teams to earthquake-hit Sichuan province, state media reported early Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that the Chinese government had accepted the offers, taking into consideration their proximity to China, which may ensure prompt aid. The announcement was ... more
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