 Quake to spur insurers to penetrate rural areas |
| Special report:Strong Earthquake
Jolts SW China ¡¡¡¡BEIJING, May 17 -- The most powerful earthquake in China
since 1950 shows the nation's insurance industry is decades behind those of the
world's biggest economies.
Just 5 percent of the more than...... (5/17/2008 10:51:44 AM) |
| School building quality to be probed in quake-hit Sichuan |
| A top housing official said on Friday that the construction quality of collapsed school buildings will be investigated once rescue work is completed in quake-hit areas."If quality problems do exist in the school buildings, those found responsible...... (5/16/2008 8:17:09 PM) |
| Russian rescue team arrives in quake-hit Sichuan |
| Head of Russian rescue team communicates with Chinese rescuers on information of the quake-hit region at an airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. Rescue teams from Russia arrived here on Friday to assist...... (5/16/2008 7:27:08 PM) |
| Chinese President encourages quake victims to overcome difficulties |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday 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.Hu first visited quake victims...... (5/16/2008 6:32:10 PM) |
| President Hu inspects quake battered province |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao arrivedin Mianyang ofSichuan Province on Friday morningto inspire more than 135,000 troops and medicsin the provinceto launch their last all-out effortto search andrescue those still trapped alive under the debris, 90...... (5/15/2008 10:41:58 PM) |
| Cries for help among dead |
| Feng Peipei promised days ago that she would celebrate her mother's 36th birthday, which fell yesterday.
Rescuers comfort Yi Chuanying on Thursday near her toppled house. Yi lost her 14-year-old daughter in the quake.It is a promise the 14-year-old...... (5/15/2008 6:58:30 PM) |
| Life and death at a school |
| Tang Hong held one of his students in arms and sheltered several others with his body when rescue workers found him in rubbles.
PLA troops seach for survivors at theHongbai Town Central School of Shifang City on May 15, 2008.
The lives of the...... (5/15/2008 6:47:46 PM) |
| Premier Wen calls for nationwide efforts |
| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao greets local people during an inspection in Muyu Township of Qingchuan County, one of the worst-hit area of Guangyuan City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 15, 2008. Wen is here to oversee rescue work and visit...... (5/15/2008 4:31:48 PM) |
