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Thousands dead in Chinese quake

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:27 GMT

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Between 3,000 and 5,000 people may have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in just one county of south-western China's Sichuan province, reports say.

Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county.

Desperate efforts are under way to find survivors. One school that collapsed has buried an estimated 900 students.

President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.

The quake was felt as far away as Beijing, he says, meaning millions of people will feel connected to the disaster and will be watching TV screens closely to see how the government responds.

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China’s Wine's Past and Future

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:04:12 GMT

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Two years ago, archaeologists at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences came up with a new theory, based on the discovery in northern China of evidence of fermented wine made from rice, honey and fruit. They pegged the find at 9,000 years old.

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China’s Wine's Past and Future

China claims it gave the world pasta, gunpowder, the umbrella and paper. Scholars here say the Chinese were golfing before the Scots and roaming the New World before Columbus.

Two years ago, archaeologists came across evidence that led to another claim: China may have been the first to make wine. Wine historians generally regard the Middle East as the region where wine originated.

Today, China is determined to join the ranks of France, Italy, the USA, Chile, Australia and other great winemaking nations.

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China: dozens dead in record floods

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:35:36 GMT

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China: dozens dead in record floods
(Filed: 09/06/2006)

Floods in southern China have killed at least 55 people and forced thousands more to evacuate their homes, official state media has reported.


	A woman paddles down a flooded road in Shunchang

The Xinhua news agency told how nine hours of torrential rain caused a series of landslides in Wuzhou, a city in the Guangxi region. Around 15,000 people had to leave the city as nearly 2,000 houses collapsed.

In Fujian province, also in the south, the bank of a rain-swollen river collapsed yesterday morning and flooded 11 villages while thousands of residents were still asleep, Xinhua said.

The disasters come amid what the government says is the worst summer flooding in parts of China in three decades.

More heavy rain has been predicted for the next two days in southern China, and local governments are preparing for mudslides and landslides.

Across southern China, at least 378,000 people have already been asked to leave the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Guizhou, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

China suffers hundreds of flood deaths each year during the summer monsoon season, although this year's first storm arrived unusually early.

Rivers overflow and water rushes down mountains stripped of trees by decades of farming and logging, often causing deadly landslides.

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