Power Returns, But at What Cost?
Mixed messages from China’s state-run media today on the resumption of electricity in the wake of this month’s catastrophic southern snow storms. First is a rah-rah report from China Daily, “Full power...
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180,000 Stranded As Cold Weather Returns
Southern China, a future skiing destination? The prospect doesn’t seem so outlandish as Yunnan gets slammed by another round of nasty winter weather, from AFP: The latest cold weather has taken a severe toll in mountainous...
Read MoreShaking Hands with Secretary Hu: Comrade, Good Job
A personal diary that records a rare handshake with the Chinese president during his visit to Guangxi Province, and more importantly, the Chinese secret service clean-up prior to Hu’s arrival. The post, after a brief life...
Read MoreStorm In The Way Home
From Global Voices blog: It’s just a 20-hour travel, but I have lost contact with my 3 kids for 3 days! The train must have been stranded in somewhere unknown, in the wild far from any station. The only cell-phone text message...
Read MoreMajor Highway Reopened in China
After painstaking endeavors, the main north-south highway reopened in China, but heavy fog weather in southern part of China still added heavy workload and difficulties on transportations. From AP via International Herald...
Read MoreDevastating Snow Evokes China’s Stormy History
From Los Angeles Times: The image of a catastrophic natural disaster that humbled a powerful leader may have stalked Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he made rapid-fire visits last week to areas devastated by snowstorms, but it...
Read MoreChina’s Response To Snow Crisis: Greater Openness, Support
From The Christian Science Monitor: As southern China enters its third week of freak snowstorms and plunging temperatures, government leaders have been falling over themselves to be seen on the front lines of disaster relief,...
Read MoreSlideshow: Snow and Collapsing South/Central China Grid
Disastrous snowstorms swept Southern and Central China just before the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival. The group of photos below illustrates an electricity tower that has been wrapped with thick ice, causing power outages for...
Read MoreWinter Chaos Tests China
From Caijing: Relentless snowstorms continued battering wide swathes of central, eastern and southern China on January 30, adding to the chaos already caused by the worst winter weather the region has seen in 50 years. The...
Read MoreVideo News: Death Crush in Snowbound China
Reuters reports that one migrant worker has been killed in a stampede trying to board long-awaited trains. It was the first stampede death of the snowstorm disaster that killed more than 60, mainly in road accidents:
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