Share Quake shake: 5.0 tremor rattles residents across Ontario and Quebec THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO – Cars were shaken from their parking spots, buildings cracked and residents ran through the streets Wednesday as a magnitude 5.0 earthquake left a small town in western Quebec in a state of emergency and much of central Canada wondering [...]
Share Blogger ESWN complied a list of recent Chinese and English stories about an emerging theory that the mega earthquake crushed China’s Wenchuan was “man-made”. Here’s the good read. Tags: China, earthquake
Share Surprise, surprise…. What an eye opener! China’s primier Wen Jiaobao on facebook! Wen must be the first Chinese leader to use popular, non-state-owned media to promote himself. Whether it is really him who set it up doesn’t really matter, it is the proactive outreaching that shines. An NYT article says: The page offers a [...]
Share Unfortunately, Sharon Stone is not the only one in the West who believes in this karma theory…such as here. As I said before, I believe the “China is evil” concept has long become subconscious in many westerners’ minds that clouds their otherwise objectivity. Forbes – Ooh la la. In one horrifying moment on the [...]
Share A good response from the feds, who initially agreed only to match private donations between May 15-June 6. Liberal’s Raymond Chan made a fuss about that over the weekend. Full press release from CIDA: Sichuan Earthquake Relief Fund In order to better respond to the needs of Chinese citizens and more effectively match the [...]
Share CP — The federal government’s offer to match Canadian donations to disaster relief efforts in China and Myanmar turns out to be nowhere near as generous as it initially appeared. Humanitarian groups have been disappointed to discover the bulk of donations they’ve received thus far – in the immediate aftermath of the disasters – [...]
Share Staff of a major Canadian charity organization told us that almost all of the donations to the Sichuan earthquake relief this time around are from Chinese Canadians, while whites take up only an extremely minimal proportion. However, the same organization did collect outpouring donations from the white community during Katrina and the Indonesia tsunami. [...]
Share Couples and photo studio staff react immediately after an earthquake struck during a wedding photo shoot at a deserted catholic seminary in Pengzhou in southwest China’s Sichuan province Monday May 12, 2008. Five couples were having wedding photos taken when the earthquake struck, and all escaped without injury. The century-old seminary was destroyed in [...]
Share A broken ultraman doll is seen near a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, southwest China’s Sichuan Province Monday, May 19, 2008. China stood still and sirens wailed Monday to mourn the country’s tens of thousands of earthquake victims. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Tags: earthquake, Photos
Share A man hangs a photo of his son at a shrine for the student victims of last week’s earthquake at a primary school in Mianzhu, in China’s southwest Sichuan province Wednesday May 21, 2008. Parents held a memorial ceremony Wednesday for the more than 130 students killed when their school collapsed in a massive [...]
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