Fauna from the blog chinaSMACK reports on the netizen reaction to the Beichuan government’s purchase of SUVs with earthquake donation money. Have you donated money for the earthquake yet? Are Beichuan’s disaster victims...
Edward Wong reports for the New York Times on the status of recovery efforts in Beichuan County, one of the areas hardest hit by the May earthquake: More than seven months after the earthquake ravaged southwestern China, new...
The New York Times has the latest on the so-called Quake Lake and the destruction of Beichuan, one of the town hardest hit by last month’s earthquake: The surge of floodwater into the town, Beichuan, was part of an effort...
A 32-year-old resident of Chengdu City embarked on a week-long odyssey, rafting over earthquake-made lakes and crawling past landslides in search of his mother, who was traveling in the mountains of Beichuan County as a tourist...
A lake created by the Sichuan earthquake is posing an imminent threat to millions of people living downstream. But, according to Reuters, there is some confusion over how many people would be affected if the banks burst. CNN...
Possible danger from the “quake lake” Tangjiashan may lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million people. AP reports: More than 1 million people may have to evacuate dozens of villages in a Sichuan province valley if an...
From the Christian Science Monitor: Mu Guangchan’s mother, a wiry 70-year-old widow who farms corn in the mountains of Sichuan, is a self-reliant sort. So when the May 12 earthquake destroyed her village home she built...
Mark Magnier reports from Beichuan, Sichuan province. From the LA Times: The orange-suited emergency workers had just pulled someone out of the rubble alive Saturday when a chilling cry reverberated around the tilting...
More than 28000 people died in the Sichuan earthquake, according to state media, and now new fears over possible flooding have struck Beichuan, one of the worst hit areas. From BBC News: There has been panic in the quake-hit...
Beichuan, in the southwestern Sichuan Province, was one of the areas hardest hit by the 7.9-magnitude quake. The seven story main building which contained 21 classrooms, with about 1000 students and teachers, collapsed when the...
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