Sue Anne Tay writes on the Shanghaiist blog: For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to...
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing just wrote the following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was unquestionably the great hero of the earthquake disaster. Coming forward in...
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Howard French writes about the rescue of 129 students and ten teachers in an isolated village in Wenchuan county eight days after the earthquake struck. He then goes on to question the reliability of the...
Read MoreLi Chengpeng (李承鹏) is a well-known soccer commentator in China. After the recent earthquake in southwestern China, he went to Wenchuan with a few friends to volunteer and published the following post on his blog, translated by...
Read MoreSeveral Chinese residents are compiling a list of school buildings that collapsed during the recent Sichuan earthquake, in an effort to shine a light on any potential wrongdoing by contractors and officials in constructing the...
Read MoreBeijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser continues her “Tibet Update.” After her blog was attacked last month, she now publishes her writing on overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com here, (A profile of Woeser,...
Read MoreAs the rescue crews continue to drag bodies out of the rubble of the Wenchuan earthquake, Meng Zhang at Global Voices translates a blog post written by CASS researcher Li Shihui, in which the seismologist says one of his...
Read MoreSouthern Metropolis News published messages from several dozen Chinese columnists, scholars, and social workers contemplating the devastating Sichuan earthquake. Several of them compared the government’s openness during...
Read MoreThe government is now estimating that the death toll from Monday’s earthquake could top 50,000. Rescue teams from Japan are expected to arrive on Friday, and teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan are also expected soon, reports...
Read MoreLucy Hornby reports for Reuters, via reliefweb.int: A devastating earthquake that struck China this week has raised concerns over the stability of dams and infrastructure in the afflicted mountainous area, while landslides have...
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