HONG KONG, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government sent a team of five staff from the Government Flying Service early Saturday morning to earthquake- devastated southwest China's Sichuan Province to provide
The death toll from Monday's deadly earthquake in central China rose to almost 15,000 on Wednesday, with an estimated 40,000 more trapped under rubble or missing, the official New China News Agency reported.
Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday went to Beichuan County of Mianyang City to visit people affected by the southwest China earthquake, encouraging them to be confident in overcoming hardships caused by the disaster.
YINGXIU, China: A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued 163 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins.