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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s first disaster management institute has been set up in Sichuan after two deadly earthquakes struck the province in five years. The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction was jointly established this month by Polytechnic University and Sichuan University to support the province’s reconstruction and development. It is now enrolling its first batch of students in its four masters courses – in disaster nursing, prosthetics and orthotics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy – which start in September. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The devastating earthquake that struck Sichuan province five years ago marked one of a series in the earthquake-prone region. The earthquake occurred in an area that is deforming as two tectonic plates – the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate – collide. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAN LEVIN, on May 11th, 2013 The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichaun Province reveals how far China’s nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has said it has halted a controversial chemical plant project amid concerns over its proximity to an earthquake fault line. “The government insists that it will not allow production at the petrochemical project in Pengzhou to begin prior to a legally required examination,” the Chengdu Daily quoted a statement from a city council meeting on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cracked and peeling walls at Lushan County Junior Secondary School exposed bricks that were either hollow or filled with “polystyrene foam”, party mouthpiece People’s Daily reported on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Germany’s Greens, the country’s third-biggest political force, will hold a party congress this weekend, five months ahead of elections in which Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a third term and the environmentalists could potentially play kingmaker. The Greens party, with its roots in the 1970s anti-nuclear and peace movements, are now mainstream and the preferred choice of well-off urbanites who shop organic and cycle to work. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Hong Kong action star’s charity, which was implicated in an alleged embezzlement scandal last year, was apparently hacked for three days. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Government minister says death toll in Bangladesh building collapse rises to 161. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s government-controlled parliament set up an inquiry on Wednesday into violence over a disputed election that authorities blame on opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Nine people died and dozens were injured after opposition protests against Nicolas Maduro’s narrow April 14 presidential poll win turned violent around the South American nation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of homes were destroyed and at least 47 people were injured after two earthquakes, at 4.8 and 4.2 magnitude, jolted Sichuan’s Yibin city on Thursday morning, said a government website. Yibin is about 300 kilometres from Yaan, where a 7-magnitude temblor on Saturday killed more than 190 people. The city has about 4.4 million residents, according to a 2010 census. Thursday’s twin quakes ocurred around 6am, according to a Sichuan government website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite the gloom in the West and a slowing expansion of China’s economy, free-spending Chinese consumers and wealthy Hong Kong locals craving exclusivity have proven a blessing to retailers looking to buck global woes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador in Seoul on Thursday in protest over visits by senior officials and lawmakers to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbours as a symbol of wartime aggression, the Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap said the South’s foreign ministry had called in Tokyo’s envoy in protest over the shrine visits and comments made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China and South Korea chastised Japan after more than 160 lawmakers visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese internet users exposed on Tuesday, that a noodle shop in Yingjing County had raised prices of their popular dandan noodles from an original five yuan per bowl, to 20 yuan per bowl. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan heightened surveillance of travellers from China on Thursday after authorities confirmed the island’s first case of a new deadly strain of bird flu. The 53-year-old man became ill with fever after returning from a visit to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu on April 9, the Centres for Disease Control said. He twice tested negative for H7N9 but eventually tested positive on Wednesday after his condition deteriorated, CDC official Chang Feng-yi said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four-year-old Wang Yanxia was considered lucky and a gift to her family — for she was born in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Wenchuan, Sichuan, in 2008. But now her family is struggling to face the harsh truth that their daughter was killed in the Yaan quake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cheung Kong put up notices around the dock strike’s base in Central on Thursday, urging the workers to leave or risk being criminally prosecuted. The notices said that part of the area outside Cheung Kong Center is private property. The area can be used by the public for passage, it said, but they are not allowed to occupy, obstruct or “cause a nuisance by erecting structures or placing other articles” there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Thursday offered North Korea formal talks to resolve the suspended operations at their joint Kaesong industrial zone, and warned of “grave action” if Pyongyang declines. “We officially propose talks between government authorities,” Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok said, adding that Pyongyang should reply to the offer by Friday. “If North Korea rejects these proposed official talks, we would have to take grave action,” Kim said, without elaborating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — SKorea warns of ‘grave measure’ if NKorea rejects talks on shuttered inter-Korean factory park. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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PolyU helps set up Sichuan institute to manage disaster
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s first disaster management institute has been set up in Sichuan after two deadly earthquakes struck the province in five years. The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction was jointly established this month by Polytechnic University and Sichuan University to support the province’s reconstruction and development. It is now enrolling its first batch of students in its four masters courses – in disaster nursing, prosthetics and orthotics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy – which start in September. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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