Jul

25

Quake in Northern Japan Injures

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After quake, rescue team searched for injured people. The earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 100 people injured, some of them seriously.

The 6.8 Richter-scale quake struck just after midnight on the mountainous northern tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu, shattering windows and triggering landslides that blocked key roads on the Pacific coast.

According to latest report, near about 110 people were injured. Police said that 15 of them were in serious condition, some having broken bones as the quake threw them to the ground.

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Jun

25

U.S. divers to join search on Philippine ferry

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U.S. navy divers will join the grim search for bodies in a sunken ferry in the Philippines on Wednesday with over 700 people still missing.

Still hundreds of passengers were feared trapped inside the Princess of the Stars when it ran aground and capsized in waves as big as houses off the central island of Sibuyan during a typhoon on Saturday.

Coast guard said, we retrieve bodies from inside a dining hall, still wearing life vests were floating head up.

Coast guard spokesman said, “They are optimistic they will be able to penetrate the others spaces today,”

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Jun

25

India wants to send special relief team to China quake zone

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India plans to discuss with China how it can assist in relief and reconstruction in the country’s earthquake-devastated southwest region, Indian Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao said.

Rao said, “We know there are special needs to rebuild schools and homes and to provide medical care, foods and other needs especially trauma counselling for the affected,”

She said that India would like to be in touch with Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs nad Sichuan provincial government to identify special projects that would help the affected people.

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Jun

23

Philippine Typhoon’s Toll Rises After Ferry Sinks

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More than 700 people were missing on Sunday after a Philippine passenger ship capsized in a typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of destruction across the archipelago.

Only four people are so far known to have survived the ferry disaster and they said many passengers did not make it off the MV Princess of Stars in time.

The Red Cross said that at least 137 people had been killed in the typhoon, not including those confirmed dead after the sinking of the ferry, which had been carrying more than 700 passengers and crew members when it went down on Saturday.

“Many of us jumped, the waves were so huge, and the rains were heavy,” a survivor identified only as Jesse told local radio. “There was just one announcement over the megaphone, about 30 minutes before the ship tilted to its side.”

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Jun

16

China flood kills 55

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China government said, torrential rain and flooding in south china have left at least 55 people dead and many missing while over 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes.

Official said that the rains have created havoc across the south, damaging crops and causing power blackouts in some areas. A section of a river was also about to burst its embankment, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee to higher ground.

Official said, 40 meter crack on the Dayaochong embankment of Xijiang river in Changzhou town, forcing evacuation of 120,000 people of higher ground.

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Jun

10

Aftershocks hit brimming China quake lake

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Muddy lake water from a dangerously unstable “quake lake” rushed into the devastated Chinese town of Beichuan on Tuesday, covering about a third of the settlement where the water level was rising fast.

The Tangjiashan Lake, the largest of the more than 30 created when landslides blocked the flow of rivers, has forced the evacuation of more than 250,000 residents downstream in case the unstable dam of mud and rocks bursts.

Brown water, clumps of trees and occasional vehicles pushing against buildings were moving quickly into low-lying areas of the town, washing away remains of buildings, bodies and valuables left under the rubble.

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May

28

China ‘quake lake’ fears prompt new evacuation

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Till now China has evacuated more than 150,000 people living below a swollen lake. Lake name is Tangjiashan lake and it was created when landslides caused by the 12 May earthquake. This was the China’s most destructive earthquake in decades.

The official death was raised on Tuesday to 67,183 and 20,790 people are missing. Quake injured nearly 362,000 people and ruined 420,000 houses, make already uninhabitable.

Around 1.3 million people from 33 villages of Mianyang city could be relocated, if Lake Barrier collapses. The water level holds the volume of around 50,000 Olympic swimming pools. Continue reading…



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May

22

China earthquake: Angry parents protest

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May

19

Hopes for Myanmar cyclone aid rise as ASEAN meets

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mayan.jpgHopes of a deal to expedite aid to millions of Myanmar cyclone victims rose on Monday as the U.N. stated Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would visit this week and Southeast Asia kicked off its own disaster-response meeting.

Ban’s trip is likely to conclude in a rare tete-a-tete with junta supremo Than Shwe, who has refused to respond phone calls from the United Nations boss ever since Cyclone Nargis struck two weeks ago, leaving 134,000 dead and missing and up to 2.5 million destitute.

The U.N. also needs a conference in Bangkok on May 24 to assemble funds for the relief effort in the former Burma, where the military government has so far declined to admit large-scale foreign aid for fear it will loosen its 46-year grip on power.

Humanitarian agencies say the death toll from Nargis, already one of the most devastating cyclones to hit Asia, could rise without a immense raise of emergency food, shelter and medicine to the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta.

Non-government aid organisation Save the Children stated in a Sunday statement its research had found some “30,000 children under the age of five in the cyclone-affected Irrawaddy Delta were already intensely malnourished prior to the cyclone hit.”

“Of those, Save the Children believes that several thousand are endangered of death in the next two to three weeks due to lack of food.”

However, Britain’s Asia minister, Mark Malloch-Brown, told Reuters in Yangon on Sunday that diplomats may have turned the corner in brokering a deal to get aid flowing which accommodated the generals’ deep distrust of the outside world — and in particular the West.

“Like all turning points in Burma, the corner will have a few ‘S’ bends in it,” Malloch-Brown stated after a series of meetings with top junta officials.

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May

19

China mourns earthquake victims

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china19.jpgFlags flew at half-staff, public entertainment was canceled and 1.3 billion people were asked to observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning Monday for the victims of the nation’s massive earthquake.

The mourning comes as hopes of finding more survivors in the rubble fade.The number of confirmed deaths now stands at 32,477, but officials say the final toll may reach 50,000. More than 220,000 people have been injured.
The focus of the relief effort is now shifting towards providing food, medical care and shelter for the millions of people affected by Monday’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Continue reading…



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