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▼2010/04/14 00:00～2010/04/15 00:00▼
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1.About 300 dead 8000 injured in 7.1-magnitude quake in China's Qinghai Xinhua
キーワード：people,quake,school,Tibetan,medical,student,building,rescuer,epicenter ＲＶ＝53.0
2.China: Quake kills 400; destroys homes on Tibet plateau Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：mile,people,quake,school,Tibetan,medical,student,building ＲＶ＝50.2
3.China: RCSC makes emergency response to 7.1-magnitude quake in Qinghai RCSC
キーワード：people,school,medical,student,building,epicenter ＲＶ＝34.9
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▼2010/04/15 00:00～2010/04/16 00:00▼
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1.China initiates first class emergency response for quake relief in Qinghai Xinhua
キーワード：rescue,rescuer,ealth,medical,traffic,Tibetan,health,epicenter,supply,people ＲＶ＝101.7
2.China Earthquake Situation Report 1 WHO
キーワード：rescue,ealth,medical,health,epicenter,supply,people ＲＶ＝69.1
3.China: Earthquakes in Qinghai Province Situation Report 2 WHO
キーワード：rescue,ealth,medical,health,epicenter,supply,people ＲＶ＝69.1
4.China: Earthquake Information bulletin nﾂｰ 02 IFRC
キーワード：rescue,rescuer,medical,Tibetan,supply,people ＲＶ＝64.9
5.China's aviation authority sends relief supplies to quake-hit airport Xinhua
キーワード：rescue,traffic,Tibetan,epicenter,supply,people ＲＶ＝59.0
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▼2010/04/16 00:00～2010/04/17 00:00▼
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1.China: Earthquakes in Qinghai Province Situation Report 3 WHO
キーワード：ealth,Moh,health,rescuer,blood ＲＶ＝69.0
2.China: UNICEF mobilizing for Qinghai earthquake disaster UNICEF
キーワード：health,rescue,school,UNICEF,child ＲＶ＝60.5
3.China: Quake Relief in Action - 15 Apr 2010 Xinhua
キーワード：ealth,health,blood,rescue ＲＶ＝54.2
4.China warns marmots could bring plague to quake zone AFP
キーワード：ealth,health,rescue ＲＶ＝40.8
5.Tibetans mourn dead as China quake toll hits 760 Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,rescuer,rescue ＲＶ＝40.5
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▼2010/04/17 00:00～2010/04/18 00:00▼
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1.China: Quake Relief in Action - 16 Apr 2010 Xinhua
キーワード：health,yuan,child,Thursday,zone,rescue ＲＶ＝52.4
2.Tibetans cremate their dead as toll passes 1000 Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,body,cremation,rescue ＲＶ＝51.7
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▼2010/04/18 00:00～2010/04/19 00:00▼
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1.China's Hu flies in to quake site toll nears 1700 Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,body,yuan,cremation,sky,Friday,Buddhist,burial,donation,Saturday ＲＶ＝141.2
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▼2010/04/19 00:00～2010/04/20 00:00▼
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1.China quake death toll nears 2000 Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,yuan,rescuer,good,supply,Sunday,Buddhist ＲＶ＝110.9
2.China: Authorities work to repair water power supplies at Yushu quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,zone,good,supply,Sunday ＲＶ＝63.7
3.China: Quake Relief in Action - 18 Apr 2010 Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,donate,good,supply,Sunday ＲＶ＝61.7
4.Monks Bolster China's Quake Relief Effort NY Times
キーワード：monk,Sunday,Buddhist ＲＶ＝59.5
5.China restricts quake zone entry to allow rescuers to do their job in effectiveorderly manner Xinhua
キーワード：zone,rescuer,Sunday,traffic ＲＶ＝47.3
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▼2010/04/20 00:00～2010/04/21 00:00▼
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1.China: Save the Children supplies arrive in quake-devastated Yushu County SC
キーワード：child,supply,authority,school ＲＶ＝41.9
2.China: Quake Relief in Action - Macao allocates $15 mln for disaster relief in quake-stricken Qinghai Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,receive,donation,authority ＲＶ＝38.5
3.AmeriCares Disaster Relief Reaches Survivors of China Earthquake AmeriCares
キーワード：zone,supply,donation,AmeriCares ＲＶ＝37.7
4.China: World Vision distributes aid after quake World Vision
キーワード：child,health,school ＲＶ＝35.7
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▼2010/04/21 00:00～2010/04/22 00:00▼
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1.Chinese civil affairs ministry urges effective use of relief donations Xinhua
キーワード：child,yuan,zone,donation,Tuesday,Sunday ＲＶ＝89.1
2.China raises more donations for quake-hit zone Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,zone,donation,Tuesday,donate ＲＶ＝69.1
3.UMCOR Hotline 20 Apr 2010: Chile Haiti Zimbabwe China DR Congo UMCOR
キーワード：child,donation,Amity,donate,Sunday ＲＶ＝69.0
4.Day of mourning for China's earthquake victims Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,body ＲＶ＝54.5
5.China: Qinghai earthquake update (4) Amity
キーワード：zone,Amity ＲＶ＝25.8
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▼2010/04/22 00:00～2010/04/23 00:00▼
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1.China: Donated medical supplies arrive in the Qinghai earthquake region Amity
キーワード：child,Amity,good,donate,school ＲＶ＝71.3
2.Quake Relief in Action: Tibetan police deployed in NW China's quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：zone,traffic,rescuer,Saturday ＲＶ＝42.7
3.China: Qinghai earthquake update (5) Amity
キーワード：Amity,good,school ＲＶ＝35.2
4.China Quake Workers Face High Altitude Low Temperatures CRS
キーワード：zone,good ＲＶ＝25.3
5.Gales and snow hit China's quake zone AFP
キーワード：zone,Saturday ＲＶ＝22.4
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▼2010/04/23 00:00～2010/04/24 00:00▼
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1.China: Direct Relief Partner One Heart Reports from Tibet Direct Relief
キーワード：monk,child,body,good,donation,Sunday,donate ＲＶ＝122.0
2.China quake killed 207 schoolchildren: state media AFP
キーワード：child,Sunday,school ＲＶ＝46.5
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▼2010/04/24 00:00～2010/04/25 00:00▼
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1.China: Qinghai Earthquake 2010 - Work Report 3 HK RC
キーワード：zone,donation,traffic,receive,hospital,distribute,supply ＲＶ＝68.6
2.Government of Canada Announces Assistance to China CIDA
キーワード：child,school,health,supply ＲＶ＝49.7
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▼2010/04/25 00:00～2010/04/26 00:00▼
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1.China pledges to care for orphans in quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：child,yuan,zone,school,good,ministry ＲＶ＝90.3
2.Quake Relief in Action: China offers free medical treatment to all quake-injured Xinhua
キーワード：child,yuan,Saturday,Sunday,hospital ＲＶ＝73.9
3.Death toll in NW China quake rises to 2203 Xinhua
キーワード：child,yuan,Saturday,receive ＲＶ＝63.7
4.China: Survivors battle anxiety stress after quake Xinhua
キーワード：child,zone,school ＲＶ＝53.4
5.Russia to give humanitarian aid to quake-hit China Xinhua
キーワード：Saturday,ministry ＲＶ＝21.5
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▼2010/04/26 00:00～2010/04/27 00:00▼
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1.UNICEF Situation Report (China) April 23 2010 UNICEF
キーワード：child,yuan,school ＲＶ＝55.6
2.China's central gov't agency staff donate 820 mln yuan to quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,Sunday,Saturday,donation ＲＶ＝52.4
3.China/Qinghai earthquake: Life among the ruins of Yushu Amity
キーワード：Amity,Sunday,good,donation ＲＶ＝51.6
4.China: 59093 tents distributed in quake-hit zone Xinhua
キーワード：zone,Sunday,good ＲＶ＝38.9
5.China steps up epidemic prevention in quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：zone,Sunday ＲＶ＝27.3
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▼2010/04/27 00:00～2010/04/28 00:00▼
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1.Survivors recount earthquake's toll on schools in Qinghai Province China UNICEF
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,zone,body,receive ＲＶ＝108.3
2.China: Reconstruction of quake zone faces difficulties: vice governor Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,Sunday,zone,donation,receive ＲＶ＝65.0
3.China Int'l Search and Rescue Team returns from quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,zone,donate ＲＶ＝40.3
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▼2010/04/28 00:00～2010/04/29 00:00▼
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1.China: Tents given to villagers in earthquake-torn Yushu ShelterBox
キーワード：school,student,authority,distribute,distribution ＲＶ＝49.8
2.China: The “First Hot Meal” for Jinde’s Yushu Team Members Jinde Charities
キーワード：Saturday,good,psychological ＲＶ＝30.1
3.Jackie Chan helps raise money for China quake victims AFP
キーワード：donation,Tuesday ＲＶ＝21.4
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▼2010/04/29 00:00～2010/04/30 00:00▼
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1.China: Macao Red Cross collects 1.4 million USD donations for quake relief Xinhua
キーワード：school,zone,receive,donation,Tuesday ＲＶ＝64.6
2.China: National Red Cross raises 887 million yuan for quake-hit area in Qinghai RCSC
キーワード：yuan,receive,donation,good ＲＶ＝53.0
3.Aid flowing to Chinese quake survivors Caritas
キーワード：school,receive,student ＲＶ＝39.5
4.China: Qinghai earthquake update (6) Amity
キーワード：Amity,good ＲＶ＝25.7
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▼2010/04/30 00:00～2010/05/01 00:00▼
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1.China: Yushu Earthquake CHN101 Preliminary Appeal ACT
キーワード：child,Amity,school,snow,village,family,community ＲＶ＝90.0
2.USAID/OFDA East Asia and Pacific Newsletter - April 2010 USAID
キーワード：child,school,donation,health,Relief,family,community ＲＶ＝83.0
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▼2010/05/04 00:00～2010/05/05 00:00▼
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1.China: Reconstruction begins in quake-hit Yushu Xinhua
キーワード：Tuesday,village,ceremony,reconstruction,project,Luo,ethnic,live,program,respect ＲＶ＝54.4
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▼2010/05/05 00:00～2010/05/06 00:00▼
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1.China raises $637 mln for quake-hit Yushu Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,Tuesday,zone,donation,ministry,deliver,dollar,editor,raise,Jiang ＲＶ＝89.0
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▼2010/05/06 00:00～2010/05/07 00:00▼
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1.China: Quake-zone airport to run 24 hours a day Xinhua
キーワード：Tuesday,zone,good,tonne,offer,rescuer ＲＶ＝61.7
2.China's quake zone kicks off flood control reconstruction Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,authority ＲＶ＝28.2
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▼2010/05/07 00:00～2010/05/08 00:00▼
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1.China: Further grants approved for earthquake victims in Qinghai Govt. Hong Kong
キーワード：Amity,grant,Adra,Relief,authority,project,Kong,hope,victim,Children ＲＶ＝78.5
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1.Chinese government adds 200 mln yuan for quake relief Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,school,ministry,Friday,dollar,editor,repair,daily,epidemic,care ＲＶ＝78.3
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▼2010/05/10 00:00～2010/05/11 00:00▼
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1.CERF allocates $4.7 million to assist people affected by the earthquake in China OCHA
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,receive,health,ealth,community,power,family,follow ＲＶ＝119.9
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▼2010/05/11 00:00～2010/05/12 00:00▼
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1.China: Qinghai earthquake update (8) Amity
キーワード：Amity,good,distribute,ton,candle,distribution,follow,flour,rice,batch ＲＶ＝86.3
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▼2010/05/12 00:00～2010/05/13 00:00▼
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1.China/Sichuan: Children come to terms with life after the earthquake IFRC
キーワード：child,school,good,student,health ＲＶ＝71.6
2.China/Sichuan: Learning new skills for a better future IFRC
キーワード：child,receive,zone,good,health ＲＶ＝69.9
3.China: Vice Premier orders reconstruction finished in three years in Qinghai quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：Tuesday,zone,hospital,reconstruction,health ＲＶ＝55.9
4.China/Sichuan: Rebuilding community infrastructure IFRC
キーワード：school,hospital,good,health ＲＶ＝47.3
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▼2010/05/13 00:00～2010/05/14 00:00▼
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1.China: Hygiene Supplies were distributed in Yushu Jinde Charities
キーワード：school,good,Relief,distribute,distribution,month,camp,community,ealth,woman ＲＶ＝87.0
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▼2010/05/14 00:00～2010/05/15 00:00▼
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1.WFP purchases emergency food for China quake survivors Xinhua
キーワード：child,receive,tonne,month,distribute,community,ealth,flour,dollar,Zhang ＲＶ＝98.7
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1.China allocates $1.3 bln for quake reconstruction Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：monk,yuan,reconstruction,school,month,year ＲＶ＝101.3
2.China: Residential houses priority for Yushu post-quake reconstruction Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,hospital,zone,donation,student,year ＲＶ＝99.2
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1.China: Mental care facility established to ease Yushu quake victims' trauma Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,psychological,health,year,rebuild,dollar,facility,family ＲＶ＝102.8
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1.China: Premier Wen calls for guarantee of living necessities in quake zone Xinhua
キーワード：reconstruction,school,receive,Sunday,hospital,zone,donation,good ＲＶ＝100.6
2.China's donations for quake-hit Yushu top 800 mln USD Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,zone,donation,Saturday,good ＲＶ＝62.6
3.China Construction Bank lend $147 mln for quake reconstruction Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction ＲＶ＝40.9
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1.China: Orphans from Yushu receive free medical insurance Xinhua
キーワード：child,yuan,Tuesday,receive,donation,year,orphan,donate,disease,insurance ＲＶ＝125.6
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1.UNICEF supports resumption of education in China earthquake zone UNICEF
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,student,education,snow,year,month,health,class ＲＶ＝149.1
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1.Final China quake toll near 3000 dead and missing Reuters - AlertNet
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,year,student,month,Zhang ＲＶ＝102.6
2.China puts final death toll from Qinghai quake at 2698 Xinhua
キーワード：student,body,Zhang ＲＶ＝32.6
3.ETHIOPIA-MOZAMBIQUE: Asia most at risk" from natural disasters" IRIN
キーワード：year,Haiti,risk ＲＶ＝32.4
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1.City leaders join UN Making Cities Resilient campaign ISDR
キーワード：UNICEF,risk,Haiti,good,health,campaign,city,Development,Council,storm ＲＶ＝108.7
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1.China: Yushu quake donations near 7.53 bln yuan Xinhua
キーワード：yuan,donation,ministry,Zhang,dollar,May,worth,governor,cash,vice ＲＶ＝72.4
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1.China: Qinghai earthquake survivors face harsh winter IFRC
キーワード：child,yuan,reconstruction,school,receive,hospital,donation,snow,village,Kong ＲＶ＝143.8
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1.About 300 dead 8000 injured in 7.1-magnitude quake in China's Qinghai,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝53.0 2010/04/14 00:00
キーワード：people,quake,school,Tibetan,medical,student,building,rescuer,epicenter
YUSHU Qinghai April 14 (Xinhua) -- About 300 people have died and 8000 others were injured after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday a local official said.Many others are still buried under the debris of collapsed houses near the epicenter said Huang Limin deputy secretary-general of the government of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu.About 700 soldiers are now struggling to clear away the rubble and rescue the buried people a spokesman with the Qinghai Provincial Emergency Office said.More than 5000 additional rescuers including soldiers and medical workers have been dispatched to the quake-hit region according to a news conference held by the Qinghai provincial government."Our first task is to save students. Schools are always places that have many people" said Kang Zifu an army officer in the rescue operation in Yushu.CASUALTIES DAMAGES AND LOSSESMore than 85 percent of the houses in the Jiegu Township near the epicenter had collapsed said Zhuohuaxia a publicity official with the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu."The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic injured people with many bleeding in the head" he said."Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school" he said."A large crack appears in the wall of the Yushu Hotel and part of a government office building also collapsed" he said."I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents we lack medical equipment medicine and medical workers" he said.The epicenter is at the Rima Village in the Shanglaxiu Township about 50 km west of Jiegu the government seat of the Yushu prefecture and about 800 km away from Xining the Qinghai provincial capital."The epicenter is a pasturing area and sparsely-populated. I think the quake would not cause casualties as heavy as those in Jiegu" Zhuohuaxia said.Jiegu has a population of about 100000 including permanent residents and migrant people he added."Buildings in our school were all toppled and five pupils have died" said a teacher surnamed Chang at the Yushu Primary School a boarding school with about 1000 students."Morning sessions did not begin when the quake happened. Some pupils ran out of dorms alive and those who had not escaped in time were buried" Chang said."The houses here are almost all made of wood and earthen walls which will easily collapse when a quake happens" said Karsum Nyima deputy director of the News Department of the Yushu TV Station.Although Yushu is a sparsely-populated region experts said the quake is very likely to cause "heavy" casualties."The strong quake has a shallow depth and the epicenter is close to the prefecture seat" said Sun Shihong a research fellow with the China Earthquake Networks Center in Beijing."It is estimated there will be heavy casualties as the quake occurred in the early morning and most of the local residents were yet to get up" he said."In addition according to the building structure and damages a large number of people will be injured" he added.The quake led to a temporary cut of telecommunications and damaged roads to the airport. The epicenter is about 200 km away from the Qinghai-Tibet Railway."The railway line does not go through Yushu so it unlikely to be affected by the quake" said Lin Zhigang of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company.The quake was strongly felt in the neighboring Qamdo Prefecture and other regions in Tibet."But no casualties or major damages have been reported so far. We are investigating the losses" said Zhu Quan director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Seismological Bureau.The bureau has dispatched an emergency team made up of 63 professional rescuers to Yushu Zhu said."They left Qamdo in the morning and will arrive at Yushu in the afternoon" he said.Another 17 rescuers have set off for Yushu from the Tibet regional capital of Lhasa and they are expected to arrive at the region Thursday he added.The quake was also felt in parts of the neighboring Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze in Sichuan Province."Some houses were damaged or toppled but no casualties have been reported" said Guo Jin director of the Garze Bureau of Earthquake and Disaster Relief.RESCUEThe China Earthquake Administration has also sent 60 rescuers and 30 medical workers to the quake-hit region.The China Eastern Airlines has arranged two Airbus aircraft for transporting rescuers and relief supplies.The Qinghai Provincial Department of Civil Affairs has allocated 5000 tents to the region.Meanwhile the Ministry of Civil Affairs has allocated 5000 tents 50000 cotton-padded clothes and 50000 quilts to the region.In addition the Red Cross Society of China has dispatched a relief team to Yushu and allocated 100000 yuan (14706 U.S. dollars) 500 tents 1000 cotton-padded clothes and 1000 quilts as relief supplies.Pupils of some primary schools were among the buried but the number was unknown said Shi Huajie an army police officer in the rescue operation."We have to mainly rely on our hands to clear away the debris as we have no large excavating machines" he said. "We have no medical equipment either."Wu Yong commander of the Yushu Military Area Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army said the death toll "may rise further as lots of houses collapsed.""We are now putting up tents and transporting oxygen to prepare for treating the injured" he said."But roads leading to the airport have been damaged hampering the rescue efforts" he said."In addition frequent aftershocks and strong winds make the rescue operation more difficult" he added.The quake struck the Yushu County in the Yushu prefecture at 7:49 a.m. with a depth of about 33 km. The epicenter is calculated to be 33.1 north and 96.7 east the China Earthquake Networks Center reported.At least 18 aftershocks have been reported so far with the biggest being 6.3 magnitude about an hour and 36 minutes later."Aftershocks above 6 magnitude are still likely to happen in the coming several days" warned Liu Jie of the China Earthquake Networks Center.Earlier on 5:39 a.m. a 4.7-magnitude jolted the county with a depth of about 6 km the center reported.Yushu is a quake-prone region.
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2.China: Quake kills 400; destroys homes on Tibet plateau,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝50.2 2010/04/14 00:00
キーワード：mile,people,quake,school,Tibetan,medical,student,building
14 Apr 2010 14:14:01 GMTSource: Reuters* Thousands injured after series of quakes aftershocks* Schools cave in some students trapped* Appeal for tents in near-freezing temperatures* Government rushes in aid some roads and bridges damagedBy Lucy Hornby and Ben BlanchardBEIJING April 14 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake toppled hundreds of homes and some schools in the remote mountainous Tibetan Plateau of southwest China on Wednesday killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands.Hundreds of troops have been dispatched to Qinghai Province's Yushu county and some aid shipments from private organisations have set off from the provincial capital Xining."I see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents we lack medical equipment medicine and medical workers" Zhuohuaxia a local spokesman told the Xinhua news agency.More than 10000 people were injured and thousands left homeless in freezing conditions after a series of quakes and aftershocks caused many of the low mud-brick buildings in county to collapse residents and state media said.A dam has "cracked" Xinhua said and "workers are trying to prevent the outflow of water". It was not immediately clear how large the dam was or what damage it could cause if it burst.The main 6.9 quake was centered in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region."People are very scared" said Pierre Deve with Snowland Service Group a local non-government organisation adding that many had already given up hope for those still trapped.Some bridges and roads around Yushu have cracked or been cut off completely which could complicate rescue efforts state television said. The airport is open but the road connecting it to the county seat has been heavily damaged it added.The Tibetan plateau is regularly shaken by earthquakes though casualties are usually minimal because so few people live there.Yushu is home to some 100000 people spread over a vast area but the quake struck near the relatively highly-populated county seat of Jyeku.Government officials told state media the majority of houses had been badly damaged.Photos showed larger concrete buildings mostly intact with rubble around them. At least five people have also died in neighbouring Gansu province Xinhua said.President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have demanded no effort be spared in rescue attempts and sent Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu to Qinghai to oversee relief work state television said.Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama who was born in Qinghai said in a statement he was praying for the victims."It is my hope that all possible assistance and relief work will reach these people. I am also exploring how I too can contribute to these efforts" said the Nobel Peace Prize winner accused by Beijing of promoting Tibetan independence.He says he simply wants more meaningful autonomy for Tibet.SOME SCHOOLS COLLAPSE MOST STUDENTS ESCAPEXinhua reported that the early morning quake had caused some schools and part of a government office building to cave in. Some vocational school students and primary school students were trapped in the rubble it said although residents said most students had been able to flee to playgrounds."Most of the schools in Yushu were built fairly recently and should have been able to withstand the earthquake" said Wang Liling a volunteer worker for Gesanghua a Chinese charity that helps school children in Qinghai. Her group she said had heard that a vocational school collapsed in Yushu."Many homes have been damaged but we'll have to wait until this evening when our staff arrive there to understand anything specific."Xinhua quoted one teacher identified only by his surname Chang at an Yushu primary school who said five of their pupils had died when the buildings collapsed."Morning sessions did not begin when the quake happened. Some pupils ran out of dorms alive and those who had not escaped in time were buried" Chang said.The widespread collapse of school buildings when other surrounding buildings stayed standing caused anger and accusations of corruption after the devastating May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province which killed 80000."A lot of one-storey houses have collapsed. Taller buildings have held up but there are big cracks in them" resident Talen Tashi told Reuters.People from the Yushu prefecture highway department were frantically trying to dig out colleagues trapped in a collapsed building department official Ji Guodong said by telephone."The homes are built with thick walls and are strong but if they collapsed they could hurt many people inside" Zhuo De told Reuters by phone from Xining after contacting his family in Yushu.The quake was centered in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region.The foothills to the south and east of the area are home to herders and Tibetan monasteries of Yushu county while the area to the north and west is arid and desolate.The quake was centred 150 miles (240 km) north northwest of Qamdo in Tibet and 235 miles (375 km) south southeast of the mining town of Golmud in Qinghai and had a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km) the United States Geological Service said. (Additional reporting by Chris Buckley Liu Zhen and Huang Yan and Bappa Majumdar in New Delhi; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Ron Popeski)For more humanitarian news and analysis please visit www.alertnet.org
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3.China: RCSC makes emergency response to 7.1-magnitude quake in Qinghai,RCSC
ＲＶ＝34.9 2010/04/14 00:00
キーワード：people,school,medical,student,building,epicenter
At least 67 people died and many others were buried under the debris after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday the China Earthquake Administration said.AS soon as the earthquake occurred the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has made an emergency response to the disaster. A total of 1.1 million yuan in kind and cash have allocated for relief operation. The items of relief included 500 tents 1000 quilts and 1000 heavy coats. The RCSC has also sent an assessment team headed by vice president Hao Linna to affected area. And also an emergecy appeal has launched by RCSC for fundraising to affected area.In neighboring Sichuan province the branch has also sent a relief team to affected area.According to Xinhua more than 85 percent of the houses in the Jiegu Township near the epicenter had collapsed said a local official. "The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic injured people with many bleeding in the head" he said."Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school" he said."A large crack appears in the wall of the Yushu Hotel and part of a government office building also collapsed" he said."I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents we lack medical equipment medicine and medical workers" he said.The epicenter is at the Rima Village in the Shanglaxiu Township about 50 km west of Jiegu the government seat of the Yushu prefecture and about 800 km away from Xining the Qinghai provincial capital.
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1.China initiates first class emergency response for quake relief in Qinghai,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝101.7 2010/04/15 00:00
キーワード：rescue,rescuer,ealth,medical,traffic,Tibetan,health,epicenter,supply,people
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China's disaster relief departments have initiated a first-class emergency response for disaster relief work in the quake-hit areas in Qinghai Province.The decision was made by Civil Affairs Ministry and State Disaster Relief Commission on Wednesday afternoon.The first class emergency response means relief funds allocated by the country's financial departments should be delivered to quake-hit areas no later than 24 hours after the quake. Relief materials should be sent to the affected areas by train or airline as quickly as possible.Also, a nationwide donation campaign should be organized, and worldwide collections should be put under centralized management.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday, which has left about 400 people dead and 10,000 others injured, according to local authorities.Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged to take the rescue work as the first priority at the conference of the earthquake relief work headquaters held in the worst-affected area late Wednesday.Hui arrived at the the quake-hit Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in northwestern China's Qinghai Province at around 7:20 p.m.Hui called for joint efforts of the military forces and the local people to search and rescue the trapped and injured people and to minimize the casualty.He called for further efforts in the allocation of the homeless people and other measures to secure the social stability.Hui also visited some injured people and medical care workers in the area.The Public Security Ministry (MPS) has dispatched 1775 firemen, 460 police officers and 160 medical care workers from provinces and regions including Guangdong, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Tibet and Ningxia to the affected areas as of 10:45 p.m, with life-detection equipment and rescue dogs.The rescue teams from the MPS have saved more than 900 people from the debris of collapsed houses.The MPS also has urged traffic authorities of Qinghai province to ensure the delivery of relief workers, materials and injured victims and to prevent major traffic jams or car accidents.The ministry has urged all traffic policemen to stay at work and carry out upgraded patrol.Qinghai traffic authority has set up an emergency response team and green pathways in the entire transportation network of Qinghai.Now traffic control is imposed on the gateways to Qinghai in neighboring provinces, to make sure that all vehicles on the road make ways to quake-relief vehicles.The ministry advised drivers en route to Qinghai from other provinces to learn traffic information from radio, televisions and electronic screens on the road in order to cooperate with the traffic control.The Ministry of Health (MOH) has set up a contingent leading group led by the Health Minister Chen Zhu and the Vice Health Minister Zhang Mao.The ministry has decided in an urgent meeting of the leading group to start the first-class response plan for health in natural disaster and to deploy health resources nationwide for the disaster relief work.As of 6 o'clock p.m., the ministry has dispatched 287 health personnel from Qinghai and neighboring Sichuan, Gansu and Tibet, among which a 123-member health group from Qinghai and a 71-member group from Sichuan has already arrived in the quake-hit region and launched relief work.The MOH has organized 18 groups of 396 health experts and 60 groups of 1320 health care workers ready to be deployed on call.The MOH also instructed the local heath departments to be prepared for the blood supplying work in emergency and told the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to take precautious efforts against the spread of pestilence.China Youth Development Foundation also has sent medicine and other supplies worth 1 million yuan ($146,480) to the affected areas.The Chinese Red Cross Foundation has sent an urgent relief fund of 1 million yuan to its branch in Qinghai for the quake-hit areas to by tents, cold-proof supplies and foods and to support the victims.A seven-member advance rescue team from the foundation's Beijing branch has set for Qinghai by car with a rescue dog and rescue equipments. The Beijing branch will send five more rescue workers by air on Thursday.Another 52-member rescue team with eight ambulances, logistic vehicles has been sent by the foundation at 8 o'clock. The team is expected to arrive at Yushu about 40 hours later.The foundation has announced to collect donations from the society.The China Charity Federation also urged the public to donate and to help the victims in earthquake. The federation has sent a first batch of tents worthy of 1 million yuan to the quake-affected zone.A local police officer said many injured were in desperate need of medical help. Materials and medicines such as medical alcohol, gauze and anti-inflammatory drugs were desperately needed.China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has deployed three large planes to transport rescuers and relief materials to Yushu.Two Il-76 aircraft have arrived at Yushu airport with rescuers and equipment from the national earthquake rescue team in Beijing in one, while the other has delivered 100 rescuers from China's mine exploration team, stationed in Chengdu.Sources with the Air Force said another Il-76 heavy carrier which brings 100 geological experts and heavy vehicles will take off from Chengdu on Thursday and head for Yushu.The 110 members of China International Search and Rescue Team(CISAR) who were air-transported by the PLA Air Force's Il-76 carriers arrived in Yushu on Wednesday evening.The rescuers include veteran engineers and medical experts who also bring nine sniffer dogs to the epicenter.Northwest Xinjiang Military Sub-Command has deployed three Russian-made helicopters carrying 19 rescuers who will arrive in the epicenter on Thursday afternoon.Three more military helicopters with the command have also been called to standby for further rescue operations in the area.Two detachments consisting of 91 soldiers with northwest Lanzhou Military Command have taken their ways from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the epicenter, one by air and one by road traffic.The detachments have carried with life-detection equipment and other earthquake relief devices.The PLA air force has also ordered 1,500 of its airborne forces and 100 parachute troops to prepare to assist in rescue operations in the quake zone.Many others are still buried under the debris of collapsed houses near the epicenter. More than 85 percent of the houses in Jiegu Township, near the epicenter, had collapsed.A 15-member rescue team from the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) left Beijing on a flight to Qinghai at 11:40 a.m., the CEA said in a statement to Xinhua.In addition, a 62-member rescue team of the provincial earthquake department in Qinghai was en route to Yushu, a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in western Qinghai, while 40 rescuers had been dispatched from Qamdo, in neighboring Tibet, the statement said.Rescuers in neighboring Gansu, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and Ningxia were also on the way to the region, according to the CEA.The armed police headquarters had ordered 600 officers, stationed in Yushu, to take part in the rescue work and 2,100 more officers in Qinghai were on stand by, according to a headquarters spokesman.The Lanzhou Military Command has sent one of its top medical teams, including six vehicles and 31 medical workers specialized in high-altitude operations, the military command headquarters told Xinhua.Army personnel stationed in Yushu had been ordered to help with rescue work immediately and a regiment stationed in Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital, were en route to the region, the sources said.The military command has also sent 14 special vehicles for food supply to Yushu.The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has sent two aircrafts for remote sensing and six technicians to the quake-hit areas. Two more aircrafts will set for the areas on Thursday.A remote sensing aircraft sent by the PLA Navy has arrived at Yushu as of 3:30 p.m.Chinese Academy of Sciences has also sent aircraft equipped with remote sensing camera to Qinghai.In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a press release that it would send 5,000 tents, 50,000 cotton coats and 50,000 quilts to the quake-hit region.The provincial government had also arranged to send 5,000 tents, the statement said.The Ministry of Education has also started its first class emergency response plan.Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation has sent a letter to its mainland counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, to express deep concern over the loss of lives and property incurred by the quake.The Red Cross organization in Taiwan has sent a letter to the mainland to extend consolation and the willingness to offer assistance in the rescue work. The fire crew in Taipei would be sent to Qinghai for rescue work upon request, the letter said.Fire-fighting authorities in the island indicated that a group of 23 rescuers would be in place in four hours any time upon request.Editor: Xiong Tong
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2.China Earthquake Situation Report 1,WHO
ＲＶ＝69.1 2010/04/15 00:00
キーワード：rescue,ealth,medical,health,epicenter,supply,people
WHO Regional Office for the Western PacificGENERAL INFORMATIONA 6.9-magnitude earthquake (later on raised to 7.1 as reported in the government website) hit the southern part of Qinghai Province in western China. US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the occurrence of the quake on 14 April 2010, 7:49 AM local time (2349 GMT) with a depth of 10 km. The epicenter was located 380 km south-southeast of Golmud City in Qinghai. Most hit was the town of Jiegu, Qinghai, with a population of 100 000, where local reports estimated more than 85% of houses destroyed. Several aftershocks were felt.HEALTH IMPACTCasualtiesInitial estimates put the death toll at 300 with 8 000 people injured. Damages and needsThe Government has sent teams for initial response and assessment of the situation and urgent needs. Local sources expressed the lack of tents, medical equipment, medicine, and medical responders.RESPONSEThe national and provincial governments have initiated assessment and response. Media sources report military troops, rescue teams and supplies were sent from neighbouring provinces. Rescue teams from the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) and provincial earthquake department have been sent to the quake-hit region.Vice Minister Liu Qian and Dr Liang Wannian, the DG in charge of Emergency response have left Beijing at 1:30pm for inspecting the affected areas.WHO ResponseThe World Health Organization is in constant communication with the Health Emergency Response Office (HERO) and the Ministry of Health of China. WHO has expressed its commitment to support the Government. The WHO Representative in China has contacted the head of the UN Disaster Management Team for initial discussions. Further actions will be coordinated. ReferencesDr Mukundan Pillay, WHO China; Dr Jiang Fanxiao, WHO China Government official website, www.gov.cn Xinhua News Agency, http://www.xinhua.org Relief Web, http://www.reliefweb.int BBC World, http://www.bbc.co.uk New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com United States Geological Survey (USGS), http://earthquake.usgs.gov For more information please contact:WHO China Dr Michael O'Leary WHO Representative in China Email: olearym@wpro.who.int WHO China Dr Mukundan Pillay Contact: (8610) 6532-7189 ext:81284 Email: pillaym@wpro.who.intWHO Regional Office Dr Arturo Pesigan Tel: (632) 528 9810 Fax: (632) 528 9072 Email: pesigana@wpro.who.int
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3.China: Earthquakes in Qinghai Province Situation Report 2,WHO
ＲＶ＝69.1 2010/04/15 00:00
キーワード：rescue,ealth,medical,health,epicenter,supply,people
GENERAL INFORMATIONA 6.9-magnitude earthquake (later on raised to 7.1 as reported in the government website) hit the southern part of Qinghai Province in western China. US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the occurrence of the quake on 14 April 2010, 7:49 AM local time (2349 GMT) with a depth of 10 km. The epicenter was located 380 km south-southeast of Golmud City in Qinghai. Hardest hit was the town of Jiegu, Qinghai, with a population of 100 000. Local reports estimated more than 90% of houses destroyed. Several aftershocks were felt.HEALTH IMPACTCasualtiesAs of 15 April 2010, 3:00 pm, casualties are estimated as follows: 617 deaths, 313 missing and 9 110 injured. Up to 100 000 people may need to be transferred to safer places. With limited number of health facilities, health authorities and partners are assessing the need for reinforcement.Damages and needsThe Government has sent teams for initial response and assessment of the situation and urgent needs. Local sources expressed the concern for the lack of tents, medical equipment, medicine and medical responders. A major concern among health emergency experts is how to conduct rescue operations in high altitudes and low temperatures.RESPONSEThe national and provincial governments have initiated assessment and response. Media sources reported military troops, rescue teams and supplies have been sent from neighbouring provinces.President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao urged "all-out efforts" to response activities.Level 1 (highest level) health response to natural disasters has been raised. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has set up the Yushu Earthquake Health Response Leading Group led by the Minister of Health.MOH held an emergency meeting on health response and epidemic prevention. MOH plans to organize 60 medical teams with more than 1320 staff to be on stand-by for deployment. The MOH has deployed the first batch of medical teams from Beijing and Tianjin. It includes 93 clinicians and nurses with various clinical skills. The team is bringing 6 tons of medical materials. They are expected to work in the field for two weeks.WHO ResponseThe World Health Organization is in constant communication with the Health Emergency Response Office (HERO) and the Department of International Cooperation (DIC) of the Ministry of Health of China. WHO has expressed its commitment to support the Government. The WHO Representative in China has contacted the head of the UN Disaster Management Team for initial discussions. Further actions will be coordinated.The WHO Western Pacific Regional Office has organized an Event Management Group within its Health Security and Emergencies (HES) unit. This is being coordinated by EHA.WHO Country Office is convening a Task Force meeting today.SourcesDr Mukundan Pillay, WHO China; Dr Jiang Fanxiao, WHO ChinaGovernment official website, www.gov.cnXinhua News Agency, www.xinhua.orgRelief Web, www.reliefweb.intFor more information please contact:WHO ChinaDr Michael O'LearyWHO Representative in ChinaEmail: olearym@wpro.who.intWHO ChinaDr Mukundan PillayContact: (8610) 6532-7189 ext:81284Email: pillaym@wpro.who.intWHO Regional OfficeDr Arturo PesiganTel: (632) 528 9810Fax: (632) 528 9072Email: pesigana@wpro.who.int
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4.China: Earthquake Information bulletin nﾂｰ 02,IFRC
ＲＶ＝64.9 2010/04/15 00:00
キーワード：rescue,rescuer,medical,Tibetan,supply,people
This bulletin is being issued for information only, and reflects the current situation and details available at this time. The Red Cross Society of China is not seeking funding or other assistance from donors at this time.Summary: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake in China's Qinghai Province has killed at least 617 people and injured a further 10,000 people with the figure on the rise. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), this is the strongest quake to have hit the remote mountainous area since 1976. Relief personnel were rushed in, however, excavation and rescue efforts remain difficult as rescue workers deal with the high-altitude environment and debris-littered surroundings.The SituationAn earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit northwest China's Qinghai Province at 07:49 local time on 14 April 2010 (23:49 GMT on 13 April 2010). Its epicentre was calculated to be 33.1 north and 96.7 east, which is about 50 km away from the Jiegu Township, the government headquarters of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, and about 800 km away from Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital. Qinghai is located on the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Some 750 aftershocks have been recorded with the largest one registering a magnitude of 6.3, about an hour and 36 minutes after the earthquake.According to the latest official statements, 617 people have been reported dead while some 9,110 people have been injured and 313 are missing. The earthquake toppled 15,000 residential buildings, forcing 100,000 residents to relocate. Electricity, water and communication are completely cut off, while roads linking the airport and Jiegu were blocked by landslides triggered by the quake, although air transportation has been established from Xining.Many people are still buried under the debris of collapsed houses near the epicentre in the Jiegu Town, home to some 100,000 people. Most of the survivors stayed out in the open area on the first night amid freezing weather or sought temporary shelters in buildings that remained unaffected by the tremor. Rescuers have set up more than 40 tents for survivors in Jiegu, but more are desperately needed.The Chinese government immediately sent an assessment team while relief teams from Qinghai province and the neighbouring Tibet Autonomous Region were deployed to the affected area. Other teams made up of professional rescuers, soldiers, police officers and medical workers have been dispatched to Yushu from across the country, along with tents, cotton-padded clothes, quilts, food, water, medicine, bulldozers, excavators, cranes, generators and other relief supplies.The rescue and excavation process is hindered by freezing weather, difficult road conditions, high altitude and thin air. The affected area sits at about 4,000 meters above sea level. Some of the rescuers were reportedly already feeling dizzy due to low oxygen levels in the air soon after arriving at Yushu.
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5.China's aviation authority sends relief supplies to quake-hit airport,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝59.0 2010/04/15 00:00
キーワード：rescue,traffic,Tibetan,epicenter,supply,people
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Radio communication had been resumed in quake-hit zone Qinghai's Batang airport, and the emergency power supply system meant the airport could operate normally, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) confirmed late Wednesday.Disaster relief supplies and personnel, which were dispatched by local aviation authorities at 2:00 p.m., had arrived at the airport as instructed by the CAAC.Earlier Wednesday the CAAC told the bureau for air traffic control in northwest China to send people trained in air traffic control and equipment maintenance, as well as things such as diesel and satellite telephones, to give assistance to the airport in the quake zone.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in northwestern Qinghai Province at 7:49 a.m., with the epicenter 30 kilometers away from Batang airport.No casualties have been reported at the airport.China Southern Airlines said it would dispatch late Wednesday two relief flights for rescue missions, which would carry 300 firefighters and several life-detection units.Batang airport went into full operation last August without a filling station. Relief flights were needed to transport aviation fuel to the airport.The Ministry of Railways said the Qinghai-Tibet Railway remained in good working order, with the epicenter 362 kilometers away from it at the nearest point.Vice minister with Ministry of Transportation Gao Hongfeng has departed for the quake-hit zone.About 400 people were confirmed dead and 10,000 others injured in Wednesday's earthquake. Many others were still buried under the debris of collapsed houses near the epicenter, said Huang Limin, deputy secretary-general of the government of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu. Enditem
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1.China: Earthquakes in Qinghai Province Situation Report 3,WHO
ＲＶ＝69.0 2010/04/16 00:00
キーワード：ealth,Moh,health,rescuer,blood
GENERAL INFORMATIONA 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the southern part of Qinghai Province in western China on 14 April 2010, 7:49 AM local time (2349 GMT). The epicentre was in Rima Village, a pasturing and sparsely populated area in the Shanglaxiu Township, about 50 km west of Gyegu (Jiegu in previous reports) and about 800 km away from the Qinghai's provincial capital Xining. Hardest hit was the Township of Gyegu, Qinghai, with a population of 100 000. Gyegu sits at about 4000 meters above sea level. Current estimates say that more than 90% of houses in Gyegu have been destroyed.HEALTH IMPACTCasualtiesAs of 15 April 2010, 4:30 PM, casualties were estimated as follows: 760 deaths, 243 missing and 11 477 injured. More than 4 200 individuals have been treated and discharged from medical facilities.ConcernsThe following potential health risks are being monitored and assessed:- Water-/ food- borne diseases: cholera/acute watery diarrhea, typhoid, shigellosis, hepatitis A- Vector- borne diseases/zoonoses: plague, Japanese encephalitis- Communicable diseases associated with overcrowding: measles, meningococcemia, acute respiratory illnesses/ILI, tuberculosis, acute watery diarrhea- Vaccine preventable diseases: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria- Others: blood-related diseases, injuries, diseases due to effects of high altitude and their complicationsRescue workers in the quake zone may experiences diseases due to effects of high altitude (such as mountain sickness), extreme climate, strong winds and frequent aftershocks. According to the Earthquake Bureau, mountain sickness among rescuers makes disaster relief more difficult.Emergency responders must be familiar with safety precautions in travelling to and responding in high altitude areas. Responding agencies must seek proper medical advice for the use of acetazolamide, traditional Chinese medicine or other medications.Due to power failure, blood is stored only in limited blood collecting vehicles in the Yushu Blood Center. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has requested provinces receiving the injured to step up blood donation activities.Temporary medical facilities were set up to manage patients. Severely injured individuals are being transported to medical facilities in nearby provinces such as Sichuan.Currently, there are no reports on damages to health facilities and casualties among health personnel.RESPONSEPresident Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao urged "all-out efforts" to response activities. The government has concerted all efforts in initial assessment and immediate response. Emergency teams, medicines and supplies have been deployed.Ministry of Health UpdatesThe MOH has deployed 1290 health staff on 15 April adding to 1112 staff who were already working in the field. The MOH also sent 235 ambulances. The People's Hospital of Sichuan Province has established a field hospital with 20 medical staff, vehicles and supplies. The MOH has advised provinces receiving injured patients to ensure adequate supply of blood.The MOH will hold a press conference this afternoon to give updates to the public. Preliminary concerns of the MOH include the following: plague which is considered endemic in the area, food safety, water safety and sanitation. MOH has requested the China Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to conduct a risk assessment on plague and to prepare for outbreak prevention and control.WHO ResponseThe World Health Organization is in constant communication with the Health Emergency Response Office (HERO), the Department of International Cooperation (DIC) of the Ministry of Health of China and the China Centre for Disease Control (CDC). Any form of information and updates is being shared. WPRO has organized an Event Management Group within its Health Security and Emergencies (HES) unit and coordinated by EHA. WHO Country Office convened a meeting on 15 April and has delegated responsibilities to key officials within the office.The WHO has participated in a meeting this morning with the MOH DIC for updates. The Vice Minister of Health, Director General of HERO and other delegates visited the affected site and the MOH is now waiting for feedback. The MOH will inform WHO of any assistance in health emergency response if required within the next two days. WHO has initiated the purchase of medicines to prevent high mountain sickness; these will be distributed to MOH staff.Sources- Dr Mukundan Pillay, WHO China; Dr Jiang Fanxiao, WHO China- Government official website, www.gov.cn- Xinhua News Agency, www.xinhua.orgFor more information please contact:WHO ChinaDr Michael O'LearyWHO Representative in ChinaEmail: olearym@wpro.who.intWHO ChinaDr Mukundan PillayContact: (8610) 6532-7189 ext: 81284Email: pillaym@wpro.who.intWHO Regional OfficeDr Arturo PesiganTel: (632) 528 9810Fax: (632) 528 9072Email: pesigana@wpro.who.int
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2.China: UNICEF mobilizing for Qinghai earthquake disaster,UNICEF
ＲＶ＝60.5 2010/04/16 00:00
キーワード：health,rescue,school,UNICEF,child
Majority of primary schools collapsed, urgent need for tents, winter clothingBEIJING, 15 April 2010 –UNICEF will send urgently needed relief supplies for children affected by yesterday's massive earthquake. The response will be coordinated with other UN agencies. The quake heavily damaged parts of remote Yushu Prefecture, a region mostly populated by Tibetan herdsmen. The quake, which was measured 7.1 by Chinese scientists, destroyed much of Jiegu (Pop. 100,000), the main town of Yushu Prefecture.Approximately 617 deaths have been reported along with 9,110 injuries. Some 313 persons are missing and 100,000 are without shelter. On Wednesday night, many of Jiegu's residents slept outside in sub-zero temperatures. The total population of Yushu Prefecture is 357,000 and the child population is 122,700.According to Qinghai health authorities the maternal and child health hospital in Yushu County has collapsed in the earthquake. There is an urgent need for medical supplies and childbirth equipment."We are organizing assistance to support the Chinese government's disaster response with a focus on the special needs of children and women," said Dr. Yin Yin Nwe, UNICEF Representative and UN Disaster Management Team Chair in China. "We are in constant consultation with our government partners to gather necessary information and it appears that there has been extensive destruction to homes, health facilities and schools."According to local education bureau officials, 80 per cent of primary schools and 50 per cent of secondary schools in Yushu have been severely damaged affecting 22,719 students and 1,086 teachers. Although the quake struck before the start of classes on Wednesday morning, about half of the students in the sparsely populated region attend boarding schools. Authorities have requested UNICEF support to provide school tents, warm clothing, quilts and learning kits.As of late Wednesday at least 56 students and five teachers had been reported killed in the quake. Many more students are missing and thought to be buried. Complete information is still difficult to obtain in the remote mountainous area on the border between Qinghai Province and Tibet.The most urgent humanitarian needs right now are for food, water, tents, shelter, clothes, blankets, quilts, essential household items, medical supplies and rescue equipment. At this time of year in this mountainous region temperatures reach below freezing overnight. UNICEF has emergency stocks of school tents, children's winter clothes and blankets on hand and ready to be dispatched.About UNICEF in China: UNICEF first assisted China between 1947 and 1951, providing emergency services, food and nutrition, health and hygiene training during and after the war of liberation. In 1979 UNICEF officially commenced its cooperation with the Government of China to support child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. For further information, please contact: Dale Rutstein, UNICEF China, Tel +86 13910973801, drutstein@unicef.org or Liu Li, UNICEF China, Tel + 86 13701066671, liliu@unicef.org
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3.China: Quake Relief in Action - 15 Apr 2010,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝54.2 2010/04/16 00:00
キーワード：ealth,health,blood,rescue
Special Report: 7.1-magnitude quake hits China's QinghaiChina welcomes international aid to quake-stricken QinghaiBEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China expressed gratitude and welcome for the aid by the international community after Wednesday's earthquake in Qinghai Province, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu Thursday.Dozens of countries and international organizations had sent condolences, and some offered assistance to the quake-stricken area, Jiang told a regular press conference.The 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in southern Qinghai Province early Wednesday, leaving 617 dead, 9,110 injured and hundreds missing.The United States, Canada, and Mexico issued statements of condolences. Other countries and the United Nations also sent messages of condolence and support.Food supply guaranteed in quake-hit QinghaiVideo: Qinghai activates response measuresBEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China's food supply authority said Thursday that an emergency plan was in place to safeguard food supply and transport links to the quake-hit northwestern Qinghai Province.A rescue team of 14 workers sent by Qinghai provincial grain bureau with relief materials arrived at the quake zone Thursday morning, according to a statement issued by the State Administration of Grain Thursday.The first grain shipment, including 90 tonnes of rice, 45 tonnes of flour as well as 16 tonnes of edible oil was on its way to the quake affected area, the statement said.Cooked food supplies including 20,000 steamed buns and pancakes, five tonnes of fried highland barley flour as well as four tonnes of compressed food which were made in nearby cities, were transported to the quake zone Thursday afternoon, the statement said.Food supplies for rescue teams of officers and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army, armed police, and the paramilitary were guaranteed, according to the statement.Editor: Yang LinaChina's Health Ministry sends 200,000 cc of blood to quake zoneBEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Health Ministry said Thursday it has sent 200,000 cc of blood to quake zone for emergency medical use.The blood is expected to arrive in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province late Thursday.Yushu was jolted by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Wednesday, which has left 617 people dead, 9,110 injured and 313 missing.Liu Jun, head of the blood center in Yushu, said it had some reserve of blood on its only blood collection vehicle and medical staff were collecting more from volunteers.Power supply had long been cut off in the blood collection center and volunteers begun to donate blood outdoors after cracks appeared on the center building.Qinghai provincial blood center has mobilized people to donate blood for the people in need.More than 500 injured in Yushu have been or are being transferred to provincial capitals of Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai as of 4 p.m. Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health.The ministry said it has sent 562 medical staff carrying medicines and medical equipment to the quake zone as of 4 p.m. Thursday.Nationwide, a total of 18 teams with 491 quake-relief experts and another 52 teams with 1,352 medical staff are on call to offer assistance to the quake zone upon request, according to the ministry.Editor: Zhang XiangMedical rescue teams across China mobilizedBEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Medical teams from around China have been mobilized and sent to northwestern Qinghai Province to offer aid after Wednesday's earthquake.Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region sent 105 medical staff and 15 ambulances to the quake-hit region Thursday.The team traveled to the quake zone, about 2,500 km from Xinjiang, by road, said Yin Yulin, director of the regional health bureau.Another 318 medical staff and 50 ambulances from north China's Shanxi Province were sent to Qinghai Thursday by train, said a spokesman for the provincial government.The team, carrying medicines and medical equipment, would arrive in Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, in 24 hours, said the spokesman.From Shaanxi Province, a team of 65 medical staff were flown to the quake-hit Yushu county Thursday."Ninety percent of the team members have quake-relief experience in Sichuan in May 2008," said Wu Guoqiang from the rescue team.In Beijing, 97 medical staff set out to Qinghai by train late Thursday.In northeast China's Liaoning Province, a 700-strong team is preparing for deployment, while a 60-strong team from southwest China's Yunnan Province has been mobilized."Some members are mental health experts. They are willing to help at any time," said Dong Degang, deputy director of Liaoning's health bureau.Editor: Yang Lina
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4.China warns marmots could bring plague to quake zone,AFP
ＲＶ＝40.8 2010/04/16 00:00
キーワード：ealth,health,rescue
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have warned of a potential outbreak of the deadly pneumonic plague in the aftermath of the quake that left at least 760 dead and thousands hurt, state media reported Friday.Pneumonic plague is spread by marmots, and health officials fear the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the remote northwest may have woken the large ground squirrels from their winter hibernation, the China Daily said."The Ministry of Health has asked all personnel involved in rescue work in the region to keep a close eye and report suspected cases of the plague as soon as they are detected," said Feng Zijian from the Chinese Centre of Disease Prevention and Control.Marmots usually hibernate in their burrows until late April or early May, but could resurface early due to the impact of Wednesday's earthquake, Feng said.Rescue workers and survivors of the earthquake in Yushu county in Qinghai province should avoid contact with dead animals to reduce the chance of infection, he said.An outbreak of the disease last year killed three people in Ziketan, a town in a Tibetan area of Qinghai.The World Health Organization says pneumonic plague is the most virulent but least common form of plague. The mortality rate can be high, but prompt antibiotic treatment is effective.Copyright ｩ 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.ｩAFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.
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5.Tibetans mourn dead as China quake toll hits 760,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝40.5 2010/04/16 00:00
キーワード：monk,rescuer,rescue
16 Apr 2010 02:00:15 GMT* Official death toll climbs to 760, locals say many more* Premier visits quake town, President to return from BrazilBy Chris BuckleyYUSHU, China, April 16 (Reuters) - Tibetans mourned their dead relatives in the stricken Chinese town of Gyegu on Friday, as the death toll from a strong earthquake earlier this week climbed to 760.Addressing residents of Gyegu in remote and windswept Yushu county high on the Tibetan plateau late on Thursday, Premier Wen Jiabao clambered over rubble and pledged continued rescue efforts. [ID:nTOE63E00A]Survivors of Wednesday's tremor spent the night huddled under quilts and in tents, while doctors struggled to treat the wounded in a makeshift medical centre.At a foothill under the main monastery of Gyegu, monks had gathered to chant Tibetan Buddhist mantras in front of piles of dead. Some helped residents look for kin among what appeared to be hundreds of bodies, collected on a covered platform."Many of the bodies you see here don't have families or their families haven't come looking for them, so it's our job to take good care of them," said Lopu, a monk clad in maroon robes."I'd say we've collected a thousand or more bodies here. Some we found ourselves, some were sent to us."Some local Tibetans said they didn't believe the official death toll estimate of 760, saying many more had died without being officially counted.Many more bodies had already been removed by family members, Lopu said.The actual death toll is still unclear, but the damage was mainly around Gyegu, where most of Yushu county's 100,000 people reside. Estimates by NGOs support a figure of around 1,000 dead.Some 243 people are still listed as missing, and over 1,000 as "seriously injured".In remarks translated into Tibetan to a receptive crowd, Premier Wen pledged that rescuers would not give up hope of finding people still trapped under rubble.But temperatures well below freezing at night leave little chance of anyone still surviving under collapsed buildings.Many injured locals spent a cold night in tents or outdoors waiting for medical aid. Harried doctors said they had had almost no sleep over the past two days.Some pregnant women were transferred 1,000 km (620-km) to the provincial capital, Xining, after at least two babies were born in tents outside Gyegu's damaged hospital, the official Xinhua news agency reported.Chinese President Hu Jintao cut short a summit in Brazil, and cancelled a planned trip to Venezuela and Chile in order to return early to China.Convoys carrying tents, water, food, blankets and medical equipment continued to roll into Yushu county on Friday. Chinese volunteer organisations and state media launched fund-raising and clothing drives. (Writing by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Benjamin Kang Lim and Sanjeev Miglani)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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1.China: Quake Relief in Action - 16 Apr 2010,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝52.4 2010/04/17 00:00
キーワード：health,yuan,child,Thursday,zone,rescue
Relief materials flood into quake zone: ministry BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- About 41,540 tents have been prepared for the quake zone in China's northwestern Qinghai Province since it was hit by a major earthquake Wednesday, said a report from the disaster relief bureau under the Ministry of Civil Affairs Friday. In addition, 159,240 cotton coats, 188,210 quilts and 100,000 portions of field food, 185 tonnes of food, 400 mobile houses, 20,000 camp beds, and 500 mobile toilets have been collected and were on the way to the quake-hit region, according to the report. As of 3 p.m. Friday, 8,370 tents, 5,000 cotton coats, 10,500 quilts and 100,000 portions of field food have arrived in Yushu, the epicenter of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, said the report. The rest of the relief materials were expected to arrive the quake zone before Sunday, it said. The relief materials were allocated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, local governments, and the People's Liberation Army. The earthquake has left 791 people dead, 294 people missing and 11,486 injured. About 100,000 people have been relocated. Editor: An China allocates food, allowances to quake survivors BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Survivors of the earthquake in China's northwest Qinghai Province will get 500 grams of grain a day from May to July, the government announced Friday in a move to ensure food supplies in the quake zone. Each homeless survivor without an income would also qualify for a daily allowance of 10 yuan (1.5 U.S. dollars), said a joint circular issued by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Grain (SAG).Orphaned children, widowed elderly and disabled people could get a monthly allowance of 600 yuan. The allowance would come from a 200-million-yuan fund earmarked by the central government for relief efforts, said the circular released on the MCA website. About 135 tonnes of grain and 16 tonnes of edible oil had been sent to Qinghai Thursday, the SAG said in a statement on its website. Local authorities must grant sufficient subsidies and food to survivors timely, said the circular. The Ministry of Commerce Friday called for greater efforts from local authorities to resume operations of existing businesses or set up interim business outlets to guarantee quake victims' daily necessities. Editor: An 500 Tibetan interpreters mobilized for quake relief BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- About 500 Tibetan interpreters nationwide have been mobilized to join rescue operations in Yushu of northwestern Qinghai Province which was hit by a devastating earthquake on Wednesday. They were selected from six colleges of ethnic minorities nationwide, said a statement by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission here Friday. "They are in good health and speak fluent Tibetan. Some of them are from Qinghai," said the statement. Civilian and military rescue teams are rushing to Yushu, mainly inhabited by Tibetans, from across the country, but many of them can not speak Tibetan language. "Language is a problem. It hampers the rescue work," said Wei Jianmin, a member of China's International Search and Rescue Team that arrived in the quake-hit zone Wednesday evening. "The interpreters will stand by and act according to the needs," the statement said. The commission has allocated 1 million yuan (146,000 U.S. dollars) for quake relief. Editor: Yang Lina
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2.Tibetans cremate their dead as toll passes 1000,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝51.7 2010/04/17 00:01
キーワード：monk,body,cremation,rescue
17 Apr 2010 06:06:50 GMT Source: Reuters * 1,144 dead, 417 missing, more than 1,000 injured * Monks, residents search rubble for bodies, survivors * Dozens cremated in trenches; some have "sky burials" * Monks say death toll higher than official figures (Writes through) By Chris Buckley YUSHU, China, April 17 (Reuters) - Tibetans mourned their dead with a mass cremation on Saturday after an earthquake devastated part of northwest China this week, and vultures wheeled above the grieving crowd after a traditional "sky burial". The death toll reached 1,144 with 417 missing, Xinhua news agency said, after a 6.9 magnitude quake hit Yushu county in Qinghai province, where most residents are ethnic Tibetans, devoted to their own branch of Buddhism. Thousands of people converged on a hillside cremation site, where a convoy of trucks took many hundreds of bodies that had been kept at the main local monastery. Many wept and chanted as crimson-gowned monks lit the piles of bodies covered in yak oil, wood and old tires. Hundreds of monks droned prayer-chants as the flames rose above the trenches, sending a column of smoke into the sky. "People will feel very sad for a long time," said Dashi, a middle-aged local man in the crowd. "Tibetans have never experienced such a disaster in 2,500 years." For some, the grief was mixed with defiant pride. Many Tibetans resent the Han Chinese presence in the mountainous region high on the Tibetan plateau, and the controls the ruling Chinese Communist Party places on their Buddhist religion. After the earthquake shook Yushu on Wednesday, thousands of Buddhist monks rushed in to help with rescue and relief, and Tibetans at the funeral spoke proudly of their work. "I also feel that today there is unity among Tibetans," said Bairi Caile, a businessman at the cremation. "Today is a day for Tibetans, for all Tibetan compatriots," said Guyong Wose, a 19-year-old monk who had travelled from Tagong in southwest Sichuan province to help the quake victims. SKY BURIAL Before the cremation, some monks higher up on the hillside oversaw a small "sky burial", when parts of the dead were fed to the vultures, who were later seen circling through the smoke billowing from the hillside fire. An ethnic Tibetan man called Zhaxi said one of the dead fed to the vultures with wingspans of almost two metres was his uncle, Suona, who died in the quake, crushed in his home. Zhaxi said the family had paid for the ceremony. "If you can do it, a sky burial is the best way, the most pure way," said Zhaxi. "This is what our tradition expects." Monks officiating at the cremation said they burnt about 1,300 bodies in the ceremony -- a figure exceeding the official number. Nuoya, a monk helping oversee the cremation, said many of the victims may not have been registered by the government. "I think we have a more accurate count than the government," he said. Others remain buried beneath crumpled buildings. Several people were pulled out alive from rubble on Saturday morning, state television said. For the residents of Yushu, the mourning was an interlude as they struggled to put together their lives. Residents and army and police rescue teams, as well as the monks, picked through collapsed homes, looking for the dead and possible survivors, as well as bits and pieces to make life living in tents or in the cold outdoors a little easier. GOOD REINCARNATION Shortly after dawn on Saturday, Buddhist monks lifted the hundreds of bodies into a dozen or so trucks to take them for mass cremation in the foothills of the town. The ceremony was a mix of tenderness and blunt practicality. The monks lay the wrapped bodies in the the back of the trucks, where they looked like bundles of used bedding, and monks and residents sat on top of the bodies and prayed for them as they drove towards the cremation site. "This prayer is wishing that they have a good reincarnation and that their suffering is over," said Gansong Getai, a local official who had volunteered to drive one of the funeral trucks. The crowd at the funeral was a parade of Tibetan society in all its variety: burly monks, herders with sun-cracked faces, long-haired young men on motorbikes, and officials and police also muttering prayers. Police were on hand, but left handling the crowds and the bodies to the monks in their crimson robes. "We are all Tibetans, we are all the same people," said Laojiang, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who had travelled to Yushu to help with quake relief. His hands were covered in bloody bandages from digging through rubble, hunting for survivors. "I feed very sad, but I also feel we have shown our best spirit." (Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Bill Tarrant) For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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1.China's Hu flies in to quake site toll nears 1700,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝141.2 2010/04/18 00:00
キーワード：monk,body,yuan,cremation,sky,Friday,Buddhist,burial,donation,Saturday
* Survivors queue for food, fuel* Dalai Lama unlikely to be allowed to visit scene* Reconstruction urgently needed in harsh conditions (Updates after Xinhua withdraws report man rescued, paragraph 4)By Royston Chan and Chris BuckleyYUSHU, China, April 18 (Reuters) - President Hu Jintao flew to China's remote and ruined Yushu county to speed relief distribution on Sunday, as Tibetan monks prayed over victims of an earthquake in the northwest that killed at least 1,706 people."Saving life remains the first priority. We treasure every life and at the same time we should ensure victims regain a normal life," Hu told Phoenix TV before visiting a classroom at a local orphanage.Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday asked Beijing if he could also visit the site to comfort victims.The official Xinhua news agency reported earlier on Sunday a 68-year-old man had been rescued alive after 100 hours under the rubble but later withdrew the report. It gave no further details.Hundreds of military trucks, joined by convoys organised by private aid groups, rolled across the 1,000 km (620 miles) from the provincial capital to Gyegu, the Yushu county seat where survivors are increasingly desperate for food and shelter.They queued for food and fuel, clutching bowls or jerry cans.Hu visited the damaged Zhaxi Datong village outside Gyegu, Xinhua said. He cut short a South American trip to fly there.In Tuanjie village, outside Gyegu, relief workers distributed blankets at the local monastery but said the high altitude is limiting their ability to fly in food."We have never had such a big earthquake before so this is completely unexpected for us and we were not prepared," said He Zhanlu, team leader for aid distribution in the village. "To add to this, aid from all over the country is coming to us now, so traffic conditions on the road is a logistical problem."Some non-government organisations have set up distribution centres outside Gyegu to stop looting and fights over food."The security situation is calm. So far there are no big criminal incidents," Ministry of Public Security spokesman Wu Heping said, warning against fraudulent earthquake charities.HUNDREDS CREMATEDTibetan monks have congregated from across the Tibetan plateau to help with relief work and to chant over the dead in the devoutly Buddhist region. They estimated they cremated more than 1,000 bodies on a grassy hillside outside Gyegu on Saturday.Family members brought more wrapped bodies to hundreds of chanting monks on Sunday. The sheer number has forced them to choose cremation over traditional "sky burials", in which vultures eat the dead.While China is unlikely to allow a visit by the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising, Beijing appears to be slowly recognising the importance of the Buddhist response in this traditional Tibetan area.Xinhua said the Beijing-backed Panchen Lama sent a donation and message to Tibetans in Yushu via the United Front, an arm of the Communist Party designed to reach out to non-Communists and other ethnic groups.Premier Wen Jiabao visited a monastery on Friday and thanked monks for their work, foreign journalists in Yushu said, although state media did not report the visit.SCAVENGINGResidents and rescue teams picked through the wreckage of collapsed homes, looking for the dead or for bits and pieces to make life in tents or in the cold outdoors a little easier."Our first problem is that there aren't enough tents, and too many of the ones that are arriving are going to people with influence," said Dongzhu, an ethnic Tibetan who was scouring the remnants of his collapsed home on Saturday.The harsh conditions on the Tibetan plateau -- Gyegu is about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) above sea level -- mean reconstruction is urgent. Temperatures drop below freezing at night and strong winds blow constantly."When winter comes here, it's very, very cold and windy too," Dongzhu said. "I can't imagine what it would be like to be living in a little tent when winter comes."Donations from other provinces have reached 225 million yuan ($32.97 million), Zou Ming, an official at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said on Sunday."At the moment, the supplies that have been sent are enough to ensure people there have shelter, food and water. Of course, there are shortages, and a lot of supplies are still in transit," he told reporters.Tibetan students in regional cities have volunteered to translate at hospitals, where patients are unable to communicate with Chinese doctors, Xinhua said.Dongzhu's family was sleeping outdoors in their courtyard, surrounded by Buddhist statues and other recovered items."There's absolutely no way that the families around here could afford to pay for new homes themselves, and after this we will want quake-resistant homes," said Dongzhu, a retired local official in his sixties.Many local families make a few thousand yuan a year from small businesses, itinerant labour or herding yaks and goats. ($1=6.825 yuan)(Additional reporting by Melanie Lee and Jim Bai; Writing by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Paul Tait)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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1.China quake death toll nears 2000,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝110.9 2010/04/19 00:00
キーワード：monk,yuan,rescuer,good,supply,Sunday,Buddhist
By Royston ChanYUSHU, China, April 19 (Reuters) - The official death toll from an earthquake on China's remote Tibetan plateau last week reached 1,944 on Monday, but rescuers dug out two more survivors who had been trapped under rubble for more than 100 hours.Another 216 people are listed as missing after the quake struck last Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said, though rescue operations across the ruined town of Gyegu in Qinghai province's Yushu country were being scaled down as the focus shifted to aid distribution.Tents, food and water were being delivered to quake victims across the county seat of Gyegu, as well as further into the mountainous region.President Hu Jintao flew to Yushu over the weekend to comfort survivors and examine relief distribution. Hu vowed to rebuild homes and schools, and urged continued efforts to save anyone still alive under the crumpled remains of buildings.In a rare moment of hope, rescuers pulled two people alive from a wrecked building after spending 123 hours trapped in the rubble, state television said.Taiwan's Red Cross Society sent a 20-person medical relief team to Qinghai on Sunday to help quake survivors with expertise and supplies, a Red Cross official said on Monday.Many tents have been set up in the open areas of the city, including Gyegu's main square, a sports ground and a horse-racing track. Military troops and Buddhist monks are providing meals for the victims and medical teams are on hand."We hope they (the government) can provide us food and clothes," said Suona Jiaxi, an ethnic Tibetan like the vast majority of people in Yushu."If the government can take care of us, then we can live a little better than before," the 33-year-old said.The harsh conditions on the Tibetan plateau -- Gyegu is about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) above sea level -- mean reconstruction is urgent. Temperatures drop below freezing at night and strong winds are frequent. Cold, snowy weather is forecast for the next few days.In heavily Tibetan neighbourhoods of town, some quake survivors said they still largely had to fend for themselves, gathering food and water and building their own makeshift tents.Han Chinese quake survivor, Zhang Zhaojun, who is married to a Tibetan woman, said government aid had been sporadic.The 30-year-old said his family had only received a tent on Sunday. Earning less than a thousand yuan a month by gathering and selling Tibetan herbs, he sees a bleak future for him and his neighbours."Life would be very difficult. All the houses here have collapsed and we don't have any economic means to support ourselves. We have nothing. It is going to be very difficult for us," he said. (Additional reporting by Huang Yan and Liu Zhen in BEIJING; Writing by Ben Blanchard)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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2.China: Authorities work to repair water power supplies at Yushu quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝63.7 2010/04/19 00:00
キーワード：yuan,zone,good,supply,Sunday
Hundreds of technicians are repairing damaged power and water supply lines in quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local officials said Sunday.The provincial government said it has allocated 30 million yuan (4.40 million U.S. dollars) to repair power and water supply lines and transportation and telecommunication facilities in the quake zone.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in remote Qinghai Province early Wednesday, killing 1,706 people and cutting off water and electricity supplies to this barren, remote region.The quake zone, home to 100,000 people, sits 4,000 meters above sea level.Food is in short supply and temperatures often dip to freezing at night. A stable supply of power will give the injured and the homeless a better chance of survival.Four days after the quake, street lights in Gyegu turned on Saturday night, and officials said 80 percent of temporary shelters now have access to power.But the electricity is being generated by a small emergency power station.More than 100 technicians are working at Changu hydropower station, the Gyegu Township's major power generating facility, which is located some 15 kilometers to northeast of Gyegu Town."Three power generators were damaged. There were more cracks than expected," said Liu Wenyuan, a senior supervisor of the team repairing the Changu power station.Liu said it would take at least one week to repair and bring the quake damaged hydropower station back into operation. "Once this power station functions, Gyegu Town could have a stable electricity supply," said Liu.Local officials said while drinking water is being transported into the quake zone, specialists are repairing water pipelines in eight hard-hit counties and hope to restore water supplies by April 20.
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3.China: Quake Relief in Action - 18 Apr 2010,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝61.7 2010/04/19 00:00
キーワード：yuan,donate,good,supply,Sunday
4,600 tonnes of grain allocated for quake zoneXINING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The central government has earmarked 4,600 tonnes of grain for the quake-hit Yushu region in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local authorities confirmed Sunday.The donated grain includes 3,680 tonnes of wheat flour and 920 tonnes of rice, said a spokesman for Qinghai provincial development and reform commission.According to the spokesman, the relief grain will be allotted to quake victims in Yushu free of charge according a standard of 0.5 kilograms per person daily for three months.A 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu early Wednesday. At least 1,706 were killed and 12,128 injured, according to Sunday's latest official tally.The devastating earthquake affected about 100,000 people in a 30,000 square kilometer area, the China Earthquake Administration said Sunday.Made of wood and mud, most houses in the area collapsed or are on the verge of collapse.Food, drinking water and weather-proof tents, quilts and coats are all in short supply, local officials said.Editor: yanChina's quake-hit province receives 375 million yuan in donationsXINING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China's quake-hit Qinghai Province has received 375 million yuan (54.9 million U.S. dollars) in donations since a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the region Wednesday, the provincial bureau of finance said Sunday.The province has also received donated goods and supplies worth 61.18 million yuan.All donations have been transferred to a special account for quake relief.The figures included donations received through all charity channels, including government departments of finance and civil affairs, as well as charity institutions like the Qinghai Red Cross.Editor: Yang LinaLarge-scale disinfection starts in China's quake zoneYUSHU, Qinghai, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese disease-control experts joined with armed corps Sunday to begin large-scale disinfection of the debris and ruins of quake-hit Yushu County in northwest China's Qinghai Province.The disinfection aims to prevent water pollution, marmot plagues and outbreaks of respiratory and intestinal diseases in the wake of the disaster, local authorities said."The 7.1-magnitude earthquake increased the chance of a pneumonic plague outbreak spread by marmots," said Jie Xuehui, a provincial official overseeing public health.Organized by the provincial agriculture and animal husbandry departments, six teams will work to prevent animal epidemics and assist with the disinfection work.The quarantine team consists of 40 staff from provincial animal disease control departments, veterinarian and hygiene-monitoring authorities, and 70 college students from institutions affiliated to the departments.Editor: Lin Zhi
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4.Monks Bolster China's Quake Relief Effort,NY Times
ＲＶ＝59.5 2010/04/19 00:00
キーワード：monk,Sunday,Buddhist
Du Bin for The New York TimesBy ANDREW JACOBSPublished: April 18, 2010JIEGU, China — Long after the bulldozers have gone silent and the rescue workers have retired to their tents, the only sound in this earthquake-battered city is the plaintive barking of dogs that have lost their homes, and in many cases, their owners.As the smoke from a thousand campfires filled the air early Sunday morning, solitary figures shuffled through the darkness, heading to no place in particular. Some, like Tsai Ba Mao, 63, were drawn to a tent off the city's main square, where Buddhist monks had created a makeshift temple filled with rows of yak-butter lamps. A cardboard sign above the entrance read "Pray for the dead," written in Chinese and Tibetan.Like nearly everyone else in Jiegu, a high-altitude city in western Qinghai Province, Ms. Tsai was grappling with loss, in her case, the death of her 34-year-old son in the collapse of the family's home. "I can't sleep," she said. "The pain is too great."Read the complete story on the New York Times
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5.China restricts quake zone entry to allow rescuers to do their job in effectiveorderly manner,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝47.3 2010/04/19 00:00
キーワード：zone,rescuer,Sunday,traffic
YUSHU, Qinghai, April 18 (Xinhua) -- People other than rescuers might have difficulty entering northwest China's quake zone, according to a government directive released Sunday.The directive aims to let trained rescuers do their job in an effective and orderly manner."To show support for the rehabilitation, volunteers, travellers, and other people who are not directly involved in the emergency rescue" were advised not to enter the quake zone, said the earthquake rescue headquarters in the directive labeled no. 39.A 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu Wednesday. At least 1,706 were killed in the quake, and 12,128 others were injured, according to Sunday's official tally.Made of wood and mud, most houses in the area collapsed or were on the verge of collapse after the quake.Tens of thousands of people need to be relocated.Since Wednesday, thousands of soldiers and officers, armed police, medical workers and other trained rescuers have been working in the quake zone, an otherwise isolated region on account of its remoteness and harsh conditions."The hardest-hit town of Gyegu sits at 3,700 meters above sea level and there is not much space. At present a flood of individuals and vehicles are entering the quake zone, adding extra difficulties to the rescue and relocation efforts," it said."Aftershocks may occur, and traffic conditions are difficult. The quake zone can not accommodate more people," it added.The directive also orders all levels of government in Qinghai not to organize groups of sympathizers to enter the quake zone to console quake victims.The Ministry of Public Security also advised the public not to drive into the quake zone in a bid to reduce traffic pressure there.Roads in Gyegu are now overloaded. Ten times more vehicles are driving into this remote mountainous town than it can take, explained the ministry in an advisory. "The normal vehicle flow is around 3,000 cars a day; now the number is over 30,000."Hundreds of police have been sent to various check-points to ensure traffic in and out of Gyegu is smooth.Editor: Yang Lina
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1.China: Save the Children supplies arrive in quake-devastated Yushu County,SC
ＲＶ＝41.9 2010/04/20 00:00
キーワード：child,supply,authority,school
Save the Children has launched an emergency appeal for US$1 million to help tens of thousands of children made homeless and vulnerable by the massive earthquake in Qinghai province in northwest China.The Save the Children assessment team has already distributed two trucks of supplies to school children and their families, working with the local Education department. They are now working with communities and the authorities and looking to set up Child Friendly spaces in the temporary camps where government is bringing in tents, bedding and other support."We urgently need more funds so that we can better respond to the needs of children. The authorities are doing a fantastic job and want our help with specialist support to the children most in need", said Wyndham James, Country Director for Save the Children in China. "Our Child Friendly Centres and Baby and Mother care centres worked so well in Sichuan and would be great help in this situation.."The earthquake has so far claimed the live of 2,039 people, including at least 173 children and 22 of their teachers. It has left thousands of people without shelter in bitterly cold conditions. Many people have lost their possessions bedding and clothing in the rubble and yet are facing freezing conditions at night. Many have family members who have died or are injured."We've brought in over 20 tons of Tsampa (the barley flour that is the main staple of the Tibet diet) along with tea, bedding and clothing and they been distributed through the schools to the children and their families. We have an experienced team on the ground, including colleagues from our Tibet programme, so they can respond to the particular needs of the communities." said Mr James. "Now that most survivors have been rescued, the priority is shelter, warmth, food and water. Our experience around the world as in Sichuan is that it is vital for children to have a safe area to meet and play where they can be looked after, while their parents recover and search for food and shelter for the family."Save the Children will be working together with local authorities to set up tents for children in camps of displaced people to play and regain a sense of normalcy. The organization will also work to improve the sanitation and hygiene through training, distribution of hygiene kits, and construction of wells and latrines where needed. They are planning for a six month response effort.
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2.China: Quake Relief in Action - Macao allocates $15 mln for disaster relief in quake-stricken Qinghai,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝38.5 2010/04/20 00:00
キーワード：yuan,receive,donation,authority
MACAO, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The government of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Monday announced that it decided to provide an amount of 100 million yuan (15 million U.S. dollars) as quake-relief fund for China's Qinghai province which was hit by a major earthquake.Since the disaster area was located in high-altitude region, the quake-relief operation has met with difficulty, and the fund is aimed at offering more assistance to the Chinese mainland authorities in rescuing the quake victims, according to a press release from the SAR government.On behalf of the SAR government and the people of Macao, the SAR's Chief Executive Chui Sai On also sent his deepest regrets and condolences to the people in Qinghai and expressed his hope that the disaster-relief operation can be carried out smoothly and people in Yushu can soon rebuild their homes, according to the press release.Aside from the government funds, the Macao Red Cross has already offered 300,000 patacas (37,500 dollars) as emergent quake- relief fund to the disaster area in Yushu, and the organization has so far received a total donation of 2.75 million patacas (343, 750 dollars) from local communities.Editor: Deng Shasha
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3.AmeriCares Disaster Relief Reaches Survivors of China Earthquake,AmeriCares
ＲＶ＝37.7 2010/04/20 00:00
キーワード：zone,supply,donation,AmeriCares
AmeriCares earthquake relief supplies arrived in the devastated Chinese city of Yushu over the weekend. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked remote Yushu, high in China's northwest Qinghai province last Wednesday - the strongest quake to hit the area since 1976.Survivors living in freezing conditions will be helped by AmeriCares donations of personal hygiene kits, blankets, food, tents, heating stoves and water. AmeriCares is working with local partners to deliver the critical aid to quake-affected areas. The aid delivery also includes two powerful electric generators and two water filtration systems."AmeriCares is working with a consortium of local aid groups to get relief supplies into the earthquake-affected areas," reports Michael Chang, AmeriCares emergency response manager in China. "We are working together to reach the more rural areas where survivors have a more difficult time reaching the town center to access government aid."Chang also managed AmeriCares response to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake; the situation in Yushu is drastically different. Delivering aid to Yushu has been all the more difficult due to damaged, congested roads. It took the aid caravan over 24 hours to travel to the city when it would usually only take 10-12 hours."Sichuan Province is among the most populated provinces in China. When the earthquake hit it affected millions of people," said Chang. "Qinghai province, on the on the other hand, is one of the least populated provinces in China. While the damage at the epicenter is great, it has not had the same affect on the entire province."The earthquake has killed at least 2,000 people, according to the latest official statements. Over 12,000 were injured and hundreds are still missing. The earthquake toppled 85% of the houses, leaving more 100,000 people homeless out of a total population of 280,000. Access to the disaster zone has resumed and all major roads and bridges have reopened, allowing large excavation machinery and additional relief supplies to be rushed in.AmeriCares is preparing additional aid, which will be delivered directly into rural villages where rescue and relief operations have been challenged by the high altitude, freezing temperatures and hail storms.
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4.China: World Vision distributes aid after quake,World Vision
ＲＶ＝35.7 2010/04/20 00:00
キーワード：child,health,school
By World VIsion staffA team of World Vision aid workers has arrived in China's quake-stricken Qinghai Province after 30 hours' travel by road.The team, invited by the government to participate in assessments of the damage, has distributed 1,000 boxes of noodles, hygiene kits and child-friendly kits in Jiegu town, where more than 80% of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed.Officials now say 1,944 people have died after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Qinghai Province, a remote, mountainous area of western China, on Wednesday. Tens of thousands have been left homeless.ShelterAccording to Meimei Leung, who is leading World Vision's assessment team into the affected area, adequate shelter and warm clothing for children and families is a key concern, as average temperatures in the area have been hovering between -3 to 14 degrees Celsius.Hygiene, medical and other health needs may be a critical area of need that World Vision can help fill, Leung said, based on early conversations with the Qinghai arm of the China Charity Federation, the government group that coordinates with aid agencies.China's Ministry of Civil Affairs says it is planning to send 5,000 tents, 50,000 quilts and 50,000 winter jackets to the affected areas.ChildrenAssessing conditions for the quake's youngest survivors will be World Vision's top priority: "Based on what we learn on the ground, we will be moving quickly to meet the needs of children, particularly to help them establish a normal routine again and stay clear of dangerous rubble," said Leung.World Vision will also be looking into reports of schools that have collapsed in the area. The aid group has been building schools in the area worst affected by the 2008 Sichuan quake, carefully adhering to national building standards so that children are safe when they go to school."There has been a series of aftershocks and this can be very frightening for children," said Victor Kan, World Vision's humanitarian emergency director."It is important that they seek safety in earthquake-proof buildings or open areas, away from hazardous buildings."CasualtiesHard-hit Yushu County is considered to be one of the poorest areas in China, inhabited mostly by herders who belong to the Zang minority group.While the county has a sparse population of just 70,000 people, the fact that the epicentre was close to the county seat, combined with the early morning time of the quake, resulted in a higher number of casualties, Leung explained."The quake struck at 7:49 am local time when most people were asleep, and many were trapped inside damaged buildings," she said.World Vision first began working in China in 1982, and has reached a total of 2.1 million people affected by the 2008 Sichuan quake, including helping communities rebuild homes, schools and livelihoods.The aid group also educates thousands of children and families in China about disaster safety, including earthquake safety, using cartoon books that teach children where to go, what to do and who to contact in order to save lives ahead of a disaster.
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1.Chinese civil affairs ministry urges effective use of relief donations,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝89.1 2010/04/21 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,zone,donation,Tuesday,Sunday
The Ministry of Civil Affairs said Tuesday that emergency shelters and new homes in northwest China's Qinghai Province quake zone took priority in spending donations.In an urgent circular issued late Tuesday, the ministry urged provincial civil affairs authorities to ensure effective and transparent use of relief donations.The latest overall number from the ministry showed the province had received donations of 375 million yuan (54.9 million U.S. dollars) in cash as well as goods and supplies worth 61.18 million yuan by Sunday.The ministry said in the circular an accounting system must be set up to keep track of donations, and expenditure must be made public.It also asked the local authorities to strengthen supervision of the donations and vowed harsh punishments for offenses like embezzlement.The ministry issued another circular Tuesday, saying relief supplies should be first given to the seriously injured as well as priority groups of pregnant women, children, the disabled and orphans.A 7.1-magnitude quake jolted Yushu prefecture Wednesday morning, leaving at least 2,046 people dead and 12,135 injured.Editor: Zhang XiangSource: Xinhua
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2.China raises more donations for quake-hit zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝69.1 2010/04/21 00:00
キーワード：yuan,zone,donation,Tuesday,donate
The Chinese people continued to donate for the quake-hit zone in northwestern province of Qinghai on Tuesday, while getting ready for a nationwide mourning for those killed in the April 14 earthquake on Wednesday.A TV charity show on Tuesday evening raised 2.175 billion yuan (about 319 million U.S. dollars) in donations for the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, where the 7.1-magnitude quake has left at least 2,064 people dead, 175 missing, and 12,135 injured by Tuesday.In the small hours of Wednesday, most websites and news portals in China have already turned black and white as part of the national mourning, which will be formally kicked off on Wednesday morning.A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNINGThe Chinese flag will be lowered to half-mast around the country and at embassies and consulates abroad Wednesday in a show of respect for those killed in Qinghai Province, the State Council ordered Tuesday.Public entertainment would also be suspended Wednesday, the State Council, China's cabinet, said in an announcement.Following the announcement, the Ministry of Culture issued an urgent circular, ordering administrative departments to strengthen supervision of entertainment venues and to punish those violating the rule.Besides entertainment venues such as cinemas, theaters, karaoke bars, dance clubs and Internet cafes, website groups should also suspend all online services of music, games, comics, films and TV shows.MORE DONATIONS RAISEDThe fund-rasing show, broadcast live nationwide by China Central Television, was made up of songs, poem reading and live interviews, with interludes of brief donation ceremonies.The donations mainly came from the country's performing artists, dignitaries, news organizations as well as private and state-owned enterprises. The donations will be channelled to the quake zone through the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Red Cross Society of China.In addition, China's private enterprises nationwide had given 529 million yuan (77.6 million U.S. dollars) as of 1 p.m. Tuesday.Material donations also reached 94 million yuan (14 million U.S. dollars) in value, said Zhu Ping, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.The Chinese government allocated another 300 million yuan (43.9 million U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.Shanghai companies, government officials, common citizens had donated 150 million yuan (22 million U.S. dollars), as of Tuesday afternoon.By 4 p.m. Tuesday, 34,468 tents, 77,402 cotton quilts, 55,407 cotton-stuffed coats, 1,106 tonnes of drinking water and instant noodles had been sent to quake zone.RELIEF WORK BATTLES RAIN AND SNOWMeanwhile, snow continued to fall on the earthquake zone in rugged northwestern plateau Tuesday, snarling traffic and slowing delivery of badly needed relief goods.Since late Monday, roads leading to the quake-stricken Yushu county in Qinghai Province have all experienced snow or rain, adding to the difficult delivery of relief goods, said a local weather forecast official.In some parts, snow on the road accumulated to 4 cm in depth and in others, ice formed on the surface, making it harder for vehicles to move, said Ma Yuancang, vice head of Qinghai provincial meteorology bureau.Editor: Zhang XiangSource: Xinhua
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3.UMCOR Hotline 20 Apr 2010: Chile Haiti Zimbabwe China DR Congo,UMCOR
ＲＶ＝69.0 2010/04/21 00:00
キーワード：child,donation,Amity,donate,Sunday
(Extract)CHINA: EARTHQUAKE ROCKS QINGHAI PROVINCEThe death toll continues to rise after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Qinghai Province in China on Wednesday morning, April 14. Estimates put the number of dead at more than 2,000, with 195 still missing, and 12,135 injured.UMCOR partner The Amity Foundation dispatched a delegation to Qinghai Province within 24 hours of the disaster to carry out a needs assessment and to deliver instant noodles, water, blankets and tents to survivors.It took the Amity team 17 hours to reach remote Gyegu Township, seat of Yushu County and epicenter of the quake. They traveled through mountains, freezing temperatures—about 1 degree Fahrenheit—and taxing altitude.Amity Assistant General Secretary He Wen reported that about 1,000 families had taken refuge in a local horse racing stadium and that many of these survivors still lacked tents, leaving them exposed to the cold and wind. Food remains in short supply.Please give to International Disaster Response, China Earthquake, UMCOR Advance #982450 to help the earthquake survivors. GLOBAL: WORLD MALARIA DAY THIS SUNDAYThe United Methodist Church's "Imagine No Malaria" Campaign, a focus of the United Methodist Global Health Initiative, kicked off World Malaria Day by distributing 30,000 long-lasting insecticide-treated nets to vulnerable communities throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).UMCOR Health's Community-Based Malaria Control Program, the United Nation Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, and Coalition Religieuse pour la Sant・(CORESA) of Lubumbashi, DRC, partnered in DRC to increase awareness about this deadly, yet preventable disease that kills nearly one in five children in Africa.This Sunday is World Malaria Day. Visit UMCOR's World Malaria Day 2010 webpage. Download and share UMCOR's World Malaria Day church bulletin and Stop Malaria Now PowerPoint slide, and use Nets and Knowledge, an informative photo slide show on UMCOR's malaria work in Liberia, to inform your congregation.You can also observe this day with your gifts to Community-Based Malaria Control, UMCOR Advance # 982009. HAITI: UMCOR DESIGNATES $10.4 MILLION FOR RECONSTRUCTIONIn their semi-annual meeting last week, UMCOR's board of directors approved $10.4 million for the organization's Help Haiti Rebuild program and $565,000 to support United Methodist Volunteers in Mission's coordination of US volunteers there.UMCOR's disaster recovery efforts in Haiti would not be possible without the generosity of United Methodists and the many people of goodwill who have helped UMCOR raise more than $19.8 million to date. Read more about how your gifts are making a difference for the people of Haiti.Gifts to support UMCOR's Haiti relief and recovery work can be made online by visiting www.umcorhaiti.org. One hundred percent of gifts made to this advance will help the people of Haiti. ZIMBABWE: EMERGENCY FOOD GRANTUMCOR directors also approved $214,564 for emergency food distribution to 16,000 needy families in Zimbabwe.The allocation, part of which already has been sent to the southern Africa nation, will purchase a total of 408 metric tons of maize meal that will be distributed to the most vulnerable households in the 12 districts of the United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.Please give to UMCOR Advance #199456 to support those most in need in Zimbabwe. CHILE: EARTHQUAKE UPDATEBefore Paulina Muz directed the adult Sunday school at the Methodist Church of Parral in Chile, she led the children's Sunday school for years. Realizing that the children needed a meeting room of their own, Muz invited them to bring their pennies to church and deposit them in a piggy bank that ultimately would finance the project.With the help, too, of the adults of the congregation, the children saved enough money to build their Sunday school room. Construction was well under way when the massive earthquake of February 27 struck, severely damaging the church—but leaving the children's Sunday school room intact.That room became the worship space and a source of hope for a congregation that, like the surrounding community, continues to be traumatized by the earthquake and its many aftershocks. Between 40 and 50 percent of the homes in Parral were damaged or destroyed by the quake that measured a huge 8.8 magnitude.You can be there, be hope for the people in Chile through your financial support of Chile Emergency, UMCOR Advance #3021178. UMCOR provides emergency relief in many areas of the world. To find out more about UMCOR's ministries, please visit umcor.org. You can donate to any project by placing a contribution in the offering plate at a local United Methodist church; by sending a check to UMCOR, PO Box 9068, New York, NY 10087-9068; or by calling 1-800-554-8583, where credit card donations are accepted. You can also give online by clicking on any of the "Give Now" links. UMCOR is exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and qualifies for the maximum charitable contribution deduction by donors.
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4.Day of mourning for China's earthquake victims,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝54.5 2010/04/21 00:00
キーワード：monk,body
BEIJING, April 21 (Reuters) - Horns and sirens sounded and crowds bowed their heads in mourning on Wednesday in the western Chinese province where an earthquake a week ago devastated the heavily Tibetan county of Yushu.The official death toll from the magnitude 6.9 quake that shook a remote, mountainous corner of Qinghai province last Wednesday has reached 2,183, with 84 people still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said.Most of the dead were ethnic Tibetans in Yushu's main town of Gyegu, about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) above sea level on the wind-swept Tibetan highlands.At 10 a.m. (0200 GMT), ranks of residents, troops and officials in Gyegu and in Qinghai's provincial capital Xining bowed their heads for three minutes while sirens and horns sounded, according to Chinese state television footage.Television showed the nine members of the ruling Communist Party's most powerful inner circle, the Politburo Standing Committee, led by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, standing around a conference table with their heads bowed.In Gyegu, residents and Buddhist monks also assembled on a hill above the town where hundreds of victims' bodies were cremated last week, said Nami, one of the thousands of ethnic Tibetan monks who joined relief work in the town."We went to remember them, but now we have to focus on helping the survivors and rebuilding Gyegu," he said by telephone. "People are very sad. They will be for a long time."Survivors camping at a sports ground and other sites in Gyegu also gathered to mourn while sirens sounded, the China News Service reported.LATEST BLOWThe earthquake has been the latest heavy blow to this huge country where tremors, floods and droughts often strike.A quake rocked the southwestern province of Sichuan in May 2008, killing at least 80,000 people, with thousands more unaccounted for and most likely dead.But China's ruling Communist Party has also used the disaster to demonstrate its ability to surmount natural disasters, and to rally citizens with a call of patriotic unity -- a message that has given little attention to the role of Tibetan Buddhist monks in rescue efforts.The Tibetan highlands have seen tensions between Tibetan residents resentful of central government policies and the Han Chinese presence, including deadly unrest in 2008, but Yushu was not among the places convulsed by major protest.Three people in Gyegu told Reuters that government officials there were pressing monks from elsewhere to return to their home monasteries, and that some from the southwest provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, as well as from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, had been prevented from entering."The government has told them to go back. Some are willing to, and some are under orders," said one of them, a monk who asked that his name not be used, fearing recriminations.Liu Wei, a spokesman for the Yushu government rescue effort, said he had not heard of any orders directed at monks. But authorities had to ensure some control of volunteers coming to the isolated town, he said."Because of the high altitude and difficult transport here, people coming without any planning can affect our work," he said.(Reporting by Chris Buckley and Huang Yan; Editing by Emma Graham-Harrison and Sanjeev Miglani)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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5.China: Qinghai earthquake update (4),Amity
ＲＶ＝25.8 2010/04/21 00:00
キーワード：zone,Amity
Amity relief workers distributed the third batch of disaster relief goods to villagers in Zanian Village, Longbao Township. This batch consisted of 8 tons of flour; 2 tons of rice; 2000 bottles of mineral water; and 1000 cartons of beef sausages. "People from thousands of miles away care about us, bring us food and drinks, you have given us hope for life", said one of the villagers in Zanian village, where several people died and 50 people were badly injured during the earthquake.Tang Chuanfang and Cui Yazhou, who left for Xining from Nanjing yesterday, are now en route from Xining to Yushu together with Shu Junsong. They are travelling with two trucks fully loaded with disaster relief goods.Minimum temperatures in Yushu have risen to around freezing point, but the region is swept by strong winds and it has been snowing. These weather conditions have made the work of helpers all the more difficult.Amity staffer Wei Wei is travelling to Xining in order to relieve some of the staffers who have worked in the disaster zone from right after the quake. They will be able to recover from the exertions of a whole week with hardly any rest and catch up on sleep before going back to work for the good of earthquake victims.
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1.China: Donated medical supplies arrive in the Qinghai earthquake region,Amity
ＲＶ＝71.3 2010/04/22 00:01
キーワード：child,Amity,good,donate,school
Carefree Medicine Company in Nanjing donated medical supplies worth CNY 240,000 (ca, US$ 35,100), which were shipped in 7 cross-country cars to Longbao Township in the earthquake region of Qinghai by volunteers from the Songda Racing Car Club in Nanjing. Carefree has been a partner of the Amity Foundation for several years, helping to support orphans and fund the construction of village schools. Medical supplies are needed in the disaster area not only for people injured during the earthquake but also for pregnant women, children and elderly people as well as to treat infectious diseases which, in the difficult conditions after the quake, spread easily and can be more dangerous than otherwise.Medicine and candles for Qinghai earthquake survivorsIn addition to food, water and blankets, Amity is now also shipping medical supplies and daily necessities such as candles to the earthquake region in Qinghai Province. Members of the Amity team compared drug prices of several pharmaceutical companies in Xining, the provincical capital, and purchased medical supplies, including antibiotics and disinfectant for treatment of those injured during the quake. Candles are needed as well so people in the earthquake region don't have to spend the whole time between sunset and sunrise in the dark. Amity purchased more than 500 candles, each burning for about 12 hours, from a factory in Xining. Medical supplies and candles are being shipped to the earthquake region as part of the 4th batch of relief goods from Amity.
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2.Quake Relief in Action: Tibetan police deployed in NW China's quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝42.7 2010/04/22 00:00
キーワード：zone,traffic,rescuer,Saturday
A team of mainly-Tibetan police experienced in working at high altitudes Wednesday arrived in Yushu to help provide security in the quake zone of northwest China's Qinghai Province.The 55-member team, all from mountainous Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of neighboring Sichuan Province, would be deployed on security and traffic duties, said Wang Yunzhong, a publicity official of Sichuan Provincial Department of Public Security."The team are experienced in working at high altitudes and most of them are Tibetans," Wang said.Most of the population in the quake-hit Yushu area, which has an average altitude of about 4,000 meters, is also Tibetan."Our team can handle both the plateau area and the language, which will make it much easier to do our job here," Wang said.Rescuers from all over China have been suffering altitude sickness in Yushu over the past week, with symptoms of dizziness, vomiting and passing out.The altitude sickness had forced at least 200 rescuers to leave Yushu, a senior resuce official said Saturday.Editor: An LuSource: Xinhua
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3.China: Qinghai earthquake update (5),Amity
ＲＶ＝35.2 2010/04/22 00:00
キーワード：Amity,good,school
The fourth batch of Amity relief goods arrived in the earthquake region of Qinghai Province last night, Monday 21 April. Rice, flour, blankets and mineral water have been distributed in three different places. Candles were delivered to the school in Longbao Town, where classes were scheduled to resume today, so there will be sufficient light for teaching and learning. A lack of medical supplies is still hampering the diagnosis and treatment of people injured during the earthquake. Supplies which were part of Amity's fourth shipment of disaster relief goods were given to medical teams. Meanwhile, the fifth batch of relief goods is being assembled in Xining, the provincial capital.
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4.China Quake Workers Face High Altitude Low Temperatures,CRS
ＲＶ＝25.3 2010/04/22 00:00
キーワード：zone,good
A week after a deadly earthquake struck the region of Yushu in China, CRS' local partners continue to treat the wounded and are now distributing food. Staff from Jinde Charities and the Xi'an Catholic Social Service Center arrived in the quake zone on April 16 and immediately went to the two major camps where thousands of survivors are now living.Because so many homes were destroyed, the aid team initially slept in cars overnight, braving below-freezing temperatures. On their first night, a PLA troop who had four quilts to share between 20 soldiers gave one quilt to two Jinde sisters to use.The team, which includes Catholic sisters and medical personnel, has pitched tents in the camps and are offering medical help and counseling services to survivors. They also visited a local orphanage and offered help to traumatized orphans who lost their parents in the earthquake.Though many roads in the region have been destroyed or are blocked by landslides, Father John Ren and other Jinde staff organized the delivery of food supplies, including 20 tons of flour and 2.4 tons of cooking oil, earlier this week. After their team made a 22-hour journey through snow and rain, the food arrived. Together with the Xi'an CSSC and local volunteers, Jinde distributed the relief goods to 775 families—more than 3000 people—in Saima camp Wednesday morning, April 21.The quake zone is located over 12,000 feet above sea level. The high altitude, thin air, freezing temperatures and lack of electricity are hampering relief efforts. Some of the rescue workers have started to develop high-altitude sickness: they are purple-lipped and very short of breath.Reported by Laura Sheahen, CRS regional communications officer for Asia
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5.Gales and snow hit China's quake zone,AFP
ＲＶ＝22.4 2010/04/22 00:00
キーワード：zone,Saturday
BEIJING — Fierce winds and heavy snow hit China's quake zone on Thursday, state media said, complicating relief work and bringing more misery to survivors camped outside after their homes collapsed.Heavy snow fell in Jiegu, the main town in the disaster area in Qinghai province, early on Thursday and more was expected through Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.The remote region of northwestern China was devastated by last week's 6.9-magnitude quake, which killed at least 2,183 people.A freezing wind also lashed Jiegu, where survivors were sheltering from the cold in thin tents after their mostly mudbrick and wood homes collapsed in the quake, which also injured more than 12,000 people.Roads to the disaster zone, which lies on the Tibetan plateau at an altitude of around 4,000 metres (over 13,000 feet), "were covered with snow and ice, affecting the transport of much-needed relief resources," the report said.Bad weather has been blamed for inhibiting the disaster response, as has the region's high altitude and hard-to-reach location.Copyright ｩ 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.ｩAFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.
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1.China: Direct Relief Partner One Heart Reports from Tibet,Direct Relief
ＲＶ＝122.0 2010/04/23 00:00
キーワード：monk,child,body,good,donation,Sunday,donate
Arlene Samen, the founder and CEO of One Heart World-Wide, is in Tibet responding to the recent earthquake, supported by funds from Direct Relief. One Heart's medical team has been working in Tibet for several years and plans to open a special maternal and child health clinic there.Monday, April 19We arrived late Saturday night and spent most of Sunday meeting with local Tibetan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have either been out to the field or have team members who have gone out to Yushu. Right now it is a bit chaotic and anyone who does not have a permit cannot go to Yushu as the roads are so backed up with trucks taking supplies. The military is on the ground setting up tent cities and either trucking in supplies or flying in cargo shipments of what is needed. There have been several hundred victims flown out to local hospitals either in Xining, where we are, or to Chengdu. We have heard that over 1,500 people have died and hundreds are still missing. Hundreds of monks arrived on the scene and have been involved with digging people out of the collapsed buildings, handing out supplies, or helping to dispose of the bodies.We met with several local NGOs who can receive funds; they have formed an organization to coordinate donations and distribution of supplies. A representative from USAID is coming tomorrow to meet with NGOs and the Civil Affairs Office to see about donating funds to buy basic supplies. Funding is needed the most to help people with immediate needs (food, shelter, water, blankets, solar generators, water purification, cooking utensils, headlamps, medicine). Long term, the entire town will have to be rebuilt. Many of the doctors died in the earthquake and medical teams are flying in to take care of the injuries that were not life-threatening.We went to one of the hospitals today and met with several of the Tibetan families who had been rescued. Several women went into labor and were evacuated to Xining and gave birth, most of them lost everyone in their family, yet were so grateful to be alive. Everywhere in the hospital we saw families tending to the needs of their family members who were injured. I will find out later who can organize helping the families here in Xining. Everyone is homeless. There are many heartbreaking stories. The courage of the Tibetan people truly inspires me as they come together under such horrific circumstances. The hotel where we are staying has been filled with Chinese relief workers who are leaving in shifts with semi trucks filled with supplies.It looks like we will be able to start our maternal-child health (MCH) project in the next couple of months. Once we get the project started we would like to be involved with setting up a MCH training center in Yushu. Most of the hospitals either collapsed or are badly damaged. At this time the government will have to rebuild everything. Literally, there are no undamaged structures left. I feel helpless in this moment and feel the best I can do is to help convey the message of what is needed. Our prayers and long-term support will help the Tibetans to rebuild their lives in this very fragile environment. So many people are traumatized; their faith keeps them strong.With one heart and many hands,Arlene
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2.China quake killed 207 schoolchildren: state media,AFP
ＲＶ＝46.5 2010/04/23 00:00
キーワード：child,Sunday,school
BEIJING — The destructive earthquake in northwestern China last week killed 207 schoolchildren, state media reported, as it also raised the overall death toll by four to 2,187.The collapse of school buildings in the 6.9 magnitude quake was responsible for 35 percent of the student deaths, Xinhua news agency said in a report late Thursday, quoting a Qinghai province education bureau official.The overall toll climbed to 2,187, with another 80 people still missing, it reported. More than 1,400 of those injured were in serious condition.The quake struck April 14 in a remote Tibetan region of Qinghai.The schools issue is extremely sensitive after thousands of children died in a huge May 2008 earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan as school buildings collapsed while neighbouring structures stood firm.At the time, angry Sichuan parents levelled corruption allegations at local officials, saying corners were cut on safety and construction quality.The government subsequently barred foreign journalists from collapsed Sichuan schools, and some Chinese journalists said they also were ordered not to report on the issue.Chinese President Hu Jintao, during a tour of the Qinghai quake region on Sunday, promised new schools as soon as possible.Copyright ｩ 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.ｩAFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.
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1.China: Qinghai Earthquake 2010 - Work Report 3,HK RC
ＲＶ＝68.6 2010/04/24 00:00
キーワード：zone,donation,traffic,receive,hospital,distribute,supply
SituationAccording to the latest official figures, as of 19 April 10 p.m., the 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Qinghai Province has killed 2,039 people, injured 12,135, of which 1,434 people were in serious condition, and left another 195 missing. It has been recorded over 1000 aftershocks. The quake has affected an area of about 30,000 square kilometers and a population of 100,000 in 12 townships in Yushu and its neighboring counties, of which the township of Yushu is found the worst hit.As Yushu lies at an altitude of over 3,800 meters, the quake zone is under freezing conditions with below 0 degree Celsius at night. In addition to the forecasted strong wind and sleet, the disaster relief work may be further hindered in the coming days. With the traffic guidelines of avoiding non-relief vehicles travelling to the quake zone by the local government, relief supplies like tents, quilts and other necessities are now reaching the quake zone. The Chinese government has already allocated RMB200 million for relief, and has mobilized more than 40,000 tents of which 25,000 has arrived at Yushu for temporary settlement of victims. Power supply is gradually restored after the work of repairing teams sent by the government.Hong Kong Red Cross ActionsThe Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC) has received over HK$2.5 million in donations, of which we have already allocated HK$700,000 to support the relief activities in Yushu.Two staff from the HKRC arrived at Yushu County and distributed 50 winter tents to 291 victims in Bata division of Zhaxidatong village, Jiegu Township, in the morning of 19 April. HKRC will continue to distribute tents and family kits to the affected villages in coming week. We are closely monitoring the situation for planning for the next phase relief actions.Actions of the Headquarters of the Red Cross Society of ChinaOn 16 April, the emergency rescue team from the Headquarters of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) reached Yushu County at 8p.m.The team now stations at the Batang Airport of Yushu and establishes a referral hospital while a medical port is also set up in Jiegu Township. The team is mainly responsible for conveying the severely wounded victims from Jiegu Township to the airport. As of 17 April noon, the team saves and conveys 16 victims of intra-abdominal hemorrhage, comminuted fracture and head injuries.By now, the Headquarters of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has already dispatched relief materials of worth around RMB 3 million, including 1,000 tents, 5,000 quilts and 5,000 cotton clothes for the relief purpose. The materials are now under distribution.EnquiryPlease dial 2802-0021 or email to china@redcross.org.hk.
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2.Government of Canada Announces Assistance to China,CIDA
ＲＶ＝49.7 2010/04/24 00:00
キーワード：child,school,health,supply
Ottawa - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that the Government of Canada will provide $250,000 for humanitarian assistance to the people suffering the effects of the earthquake in the Tibetan region of Qinghai Province, in Western China. "Canada offers its condolences to the families of those affected by the earthquake in Qinghai," said Minister Oda. "Today's contribution will provide life-saving assistance to address the immediate needs of vulnerable populations."Through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada's $250,000 contribution will support UNICEF's efforts to help women and children who are at risk due to cold, hunger and displacement following the earthquake. It will help ensure the distribution of relief supplies, the establishment of water points and latrines, and the provision of up to 40,000 hygiene kits containing soap, buckets and other supplies. CIDA's contribution will also support health, education, and water and sanitation initiatives, as well as the provision of tents for temporary schools.An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck a remote Tibetan area of China's north-western province of Qinghai on April 14, 2010. At least 15,000 homes were destroyed and some 100,000 people were left homeless in Qinghai's Yushu county. Eighty percent of primary schools and 50% of secondary schools in the county were severely damaged.Renseignements :Jessica FletcherAttach馥 de presseCabinet de la ministre de la Coop駻ation internationaleT駘駱hone : 819-953-6238Bureau des relations avec les m馘iasAgence canadienne de d騅eloppement international (ACDI)T駘駱hone : 819-953-6534Courriel : media@acdi-cida.gc.ca
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1.China pledges to care for orphans in quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝90.3 2010/04/25 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,zone,school,good,ministry
The Chinese government is "trying its best" to look for families for orphans in the Qinghai quake zone while trying to give them special care, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs."Among all people in the quake-hit areas, children whose parents were killed during the quake are in the most difficult situation and need special care," said an unnamed official with the ministry Friday.Government organizations and social groups would work together to care for the orphans.The ministry said it would seek adoptions for all orphans in the quake zone as soon as possible, and would "fully respect" the children's preferences and the traditions and habits of ethnic children.Six children were reportedly injured in the quake when a four-story orphan school collapsed. A total of 220 students are living in tents.The total number of orphans in the quake zone is not available.According to the ministry, social welfare organizations in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, have set aside more than 300 beds for orphans and children whose parents or other family members have not been contactable since a 7.1-magnitude quake hit Yushu, Qinghai, on April 14.The ministry also planned to mobilize help from other regions if Qinghai had difficulty settling the orphans.Previous reports said SOS Children's Villages in Chengdu, Urumqi, Beijing and Tianjin would contact with the civil affairs department in Yushu and prepare for the arrival of orphans.The central government and Qinghai authorities would jointly provide each orphan with a monthly financial support of 1,000 yuan (146 U.S. dollars) for three months from April.In addition, figures from the ministry show that a total of 56,000 tents had reached the quake zone as of Friday evening, along with 117,000 coats and 208,000 quilts among other daily necessities and relief materials.The quake in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu has left 2,187 people dead and 80 missing. Among the 12,135 injured, 1,434 were in serious condition.Editor: Bi Mingxin Source: Xinhua
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2.Quake Relief in Action: China offers free medical treatment to all quake-injured,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝73.9 2010/04/25 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,Saturday,Sunday,hospital
YUSHU, Qinghai, April 25 (Xinhua) -- All the people injured in the April 14 earthquake that jolted Yushu prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province, are treated free of medical charges, said a senior health official here on Sunday.Wang Xiaoqin, deputy director of Qinghai Provincial Health Bureau, said the quake victims were not only treated for free during the first month after the earthquake, but also free of charges until they are cured and discharged from hospital.The death toll from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake climbed to 2,203 as of 5 p.m. Saturday, with 73 people still missing and more than 12,000 injured.Civil affairs authorities in Qinghai said Saturday children orphaned, elderly widowed and people disabled in the quake would get 1,000 yuan (146 U.S. dollars) of the monthly allowance per person for three months.Editor: Yang Lina
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3.Death toll in NW China quake rises to 2203,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝63.7 2010/04/25 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,Saturday,receive
YUSHU, Qinghai, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 24 has climbed to 2,203, the rescue headquarters said late Saturday.As of 5 p.m. Saturday, 73 people were still missing, the headquarters said.Civil affairs authorities in Qinghai also said Saturday they would raise the monthly allowance for orphaned children, widowed elderly and disabled people in the wake of the quake.Ma Danzhu, head of the disaster relief division under the provincial department of civil affairs, said the monthly allowance would be raised to 1,000 yuan (146 U.S. dollars) per person, from 600 yuan as normal standard, for three months.Families of the dead, including locals and migrant workers, also will receive 8,000 yuan in subsidies for each death, according to a policy announced earlier.Editor: Mu Xuequan
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4.China: Survivors battle anxiety stress after quake,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝53.4 2010/04/25 00:00
キーワード：child,zone,school
Many people in Sichuan Province had suffered from severe depression after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, and some even became suicidal, he said."A day seemed as long as a year after the earthquake," said Bayang, a senior student of the Yushu Prefecture Ethnic Middle School. No students and teachers of the school had been hurt or killed in school during the April 14 earthquake.Bayang had been working as a volunteer hours after the earthquake setting up tents for the homeless, helping nurses give shots for the sick, and distributing relief supplies to the needed. She returned to school on April 23 as it resumed classes in makeshift houses on its playground for senior students facing the upcoming college entrance exam.But nightmares keep the 18-year-old Tibetan girl awake at night."I dream of the earth shaking under my feet and school buildings trembling," she said.She is not by far the worst shaken victim."I have this really shy classmate," Bayang said, "who had been raised by her mother alone for years but lost her mom in the earthquake.""She hid in the corner to cry when the news came. The next time I saw her, she was kind of lost the whole time, and showed little reaction to what people say to her," she said, "I think she needs some psychological counseling."Fu Wencai, headmaster of Yushu's Hongqi Elementary School, also said such counseling was a must, especially for the young. The school had a total of 1,918 students before the earthquake."Although no one was hurt at our school on April 14, I am sure that fear has taken root in the hearts of the kids," said Fu, who belongs to the Tu ethnic group."Not just the kids, even the adults, including me, have fears. Every time I heard someone slam their car doors close, BANG, and I would jump on my feet fearing another earthquake," he said.He said the school would resume classes at the end of this month, and he would let the children play more during school hours, "so that they can forget the fear, but not the earthquake. They should remember the earthquake," Fu said.Shen Zhenming said psychological counseling should focus on helping quake victims to face up to the reality, including their losses to the quake, and to speak out how they feel inside and pin new hopes on the future.But Shen acknowledged that it was still hard to sign up many quake victims for psychological counseling due to difficulties in communication.About 90 percent of Yushu residents are Tibetan, and almost all are devout Buddhists."A lot of the quake victims do not speak Chinese mandarin, making it almost impossible for us to communicate," Shen said, "Fortunately, many teenagers had offered to be translators, which is of great help."Meanwhile, Guo Yanqing said Tibetan traditions should be respected when providing psychological counseling to the quake victims, lest imposing further harm on the victims."I heard in one case some doctors in Xining insisted that an injured old lady transported from the quake zone should wash her hair but she refused," he said."As it turned out, it is a local tradition that when someone dies, his or her family members cannot wash hair in the next 49 days nor wear new clothes. They believe otherwise the deceased would not be blessed after their death," Guo said."I feel better now," Bayang said after talking with psychological experts at her school. "I hope I can enter a medical college."Editor: Yang Lina
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5.Russia to give humanitarian aid to quake-hit China,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝21.5 2010/04/25 00:00
キーワード：Saturday,ministry
MOSCOW, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Russia will give humanitarian aid to quake-stricken China, a source at the Emergency Situations Ministry told Russian media on Friday."Under the Russian president's order, the ministry will deliver tents, blankets, diesel generators and food to China, about 40 tons of cargo in total," the ministry said, quoted by the Itar- Tass news agency.The flight is scheduled for Saturday, the source said."An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane of the ministry will bring the aid to the Qinghai province, which sustained the heaviest damage in the recent quake," the ministry said.Another plane will bring more aid to China in the near future.Last Wednesday, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, in Qinghai province, killing over 2,000 people and injuring 10,000 others.Editor: Mu Xuequan
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1.UNICEF Situation Report (China) April 23 2010,UNICEF
ＲＶ＝55.6 2010/04/26 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,school
For External UseReporting period April 20-21-22-23, 2010 Situation Overview A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous County in northwest China's Qinghai Province, at 07:49:37 AM on Wednesday 14 April with a depth of about 33 km. The epicentre is calculated to be 33.1 north and 96.7 east, 50 km west of Jiegu Township, the government seat of Yushu County, which is about 800 km southwest of Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital and 1,905 km southwest of Beijing. Yushu Prefecture, located on the Tibet plateau with an average altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, covers 267,000 square kilometres. It is a quake-prone area and has a population of more than 357,000 people including 174,900 females and 122,700 children aged 0-17 years, 97 percent of whom are Tibetans. Jiegu Township is the seat of government for Yushu County, having a population of about 100,000, including permanent residents and migrants. Yushu borders Sichuan Province and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Yushu is designated a "national-level poverty county," with an average net annual income of around 2,300 yuan (about 338 USD) for farmers and herdsman. Casualties, damages and losses are still under assessment. As of 23 April 2010, 2,187 people are reported dead, 80 missing and 12,135 injured (including 1,434 severely injured). While Yushu County was the epicentre of the earthquake, five other neighbouring counties (Chengduo, Zhiduo, Zaduo, Nangqian, Qumalai) were also affected by the earthquake. Local houses are mostly made of wood and earthen walls. 15,000 buildings have collapsed. Over 85% of residential homes in Jiegu have collapsed. Settlement camps for the displaced have been set up, but many earthquake survivors continue to sleep in the open, even as nighttime temperatures fall below freezing. Yushu has 50 primary schools and 3 teaching sites, 4 junior secondary and 3 senior secondary schools and 1 vocational high school, with a total of 22,719 students and 1,086 teachers. 90% of schoolchildren are of the Tibetan ethnic minority group. According to the Qinghai Province Department of Education, 207 schoolchildren were killed in the earthquake. Education authorities have also reported that out of a total of 139,175 sqm of school buildings, 36,572 sqm (26% of total) have collapsed and 61,574 sqm (44% of total) are unusable. Yushu Ethnic Vocational School and No.3 Complete Primary Schools are worst damaged.Medical facilities were also affected by the earthquake. Yushu Prefecture MCH hospital and Yushu County MCH hospital both collapsed in the earthquake, while 8 other health facilities were damaged. MCH indicators in Yushu lag behind national averages, with low hospital delivery rate (62.7%, versus 94.5% nationally) and high infant mortality rate (22.7‰ vs 14.9‰ nationally).
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2.China's central gov't agency staff donate 820 mln yuan to quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝52.4 2010/04/26 00:00
キーワード：yuan,Sunday,Saturday,donation
Officials and staff from China's central government agencies have donated more than 820 million yuan (120 million U.S. dollars) in cash to quake-hit Qinghai Province as of Sunday, according to the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.Chinese President Hu Jintao, former President Jiang Zemin and other top leaders including Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang, all made donations.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 14. The earthquake had killed more than 2,200 people as of 5 p.m. Saturday, the rescue headquarters said late Saturday.
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3.China/Qinghai earthquake: Life among the ruins of Yushu,Amity
ＲＶ＝51.6 2010/04/26 00:00
キーワード：Amity,Sunday,good,donation
More than 10 days after the earthquake of 14 April, Yushu is in ruins but disaster relief work has made good progress. The town's horse-racing ground, which is now the biggest settlement for people whose homes have been destroyed, resembles a big bustling village. Some 30,000 earthquake survivors have found temporary shelter here. The area is covered by thousands of blue tents. People here have access to safe drinking water and food, which you can see people cooking all over the encampment.In this and other respects, life has returned to partial normalcy again. Shops have reopened in Yushu, many of them in tents. Quake survivors managed to salvage much of their supplies from their damaged or destroyed shops and now they're already back in business selling vegetables, Tibetan buttered tea, clothes and shoes. Many of the survivors show a strong sense of resilience and optimism.Amity's fifth batch of relief goods arrived in Yushu yesterday (Sunday 25 April) at 2 p.m. It included rice, flour and medical supplies. At around 4 in the afternoon it reached Longbao Township, where Amity staffers Shu Junsong, Cui Yazhou and Tang Chuanfang supervised the distribution. Transport to the region is now more orderly than in the first days after the quake but also more bureaucratic: Vehicles need special permits to enter. Amity's team in Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, is handling formalities. Batch number six is on its way from Xining to Yushu.Amity has received a total of CNY 1.76 million (ca. US$ 257,700) in donations from mainland China, including CNY 240,000 in discounts on purchased relief goods. As we reported earlier, Amity Hong Kong successfully applied for HK$ 4.5 million (ca. US$ 580,000) in emergency relief funds from the Hong Kong S.A.R. government and received substantial donations from overseas churches and individual donors.
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4.China: 59093 tents distributed in quake-hit zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝38.9 2010/04/26 00:00
キーワード：zone,Sunday,good
A total of 59,093 tents and 207,959 quilts had been distributed to survivors in the quake zone of northwest China's Qinghai Province by Sunday, the vice governor of Qinghai said Monday.More than 110,000 padded coats, 1,670 tonnes of food and drinking water, 13,000 stoves and 1,520 tonnes of coal had been allocated since the quake that jolted Yushu prefecture April 14, said Zhang Guangrong.The goods and materials met most of the needs of the survivors, Zhang told a press conference presided over by State Council Information Office in Beijing.About 12,600 people in 34 teams nationwide took part in the rescue efforts and 1,455 people were rescued from the debris, Zhang said.A total of 52 medical teams, involving 3,032 people, were dispatched to the quake zone and treated 9,145 patients. Of the injured, 2,674 had been transferred to capital cities of neighboring provinces, he said.By Sunday, the death toll from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake had climbed to 2,220 with 70 people still missing. More than 12,000 were injured, and tens of thousands of residential buildings had collapsed.All adobe houses in Gyegu Town of Yushu, the epicenter, were flattened, 80 percent of brick-concrete structures were toppled, said Zhang. EnditemEditor: Lin Zhi
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5.China steps up epidemic prevention in quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝27.3 2010/04/26 00:00
キーワード：zone,Sunday
China's health authorities have stepped up measures in preventing epidemics in northwest China's Qinghai Province where at least 2,192 people died since the April 14 quake, the provincial government said Sunday.More than 400 people are working to prevent epidemics. They are monitoring infectious diseases, water quality and food safety. No epidemic outbreak has been reported so far, said a spokesman with Qinghai's public health department.The epidemic prevention workers have so far disinfected 1,597,000 square meters of area and 6,600 tents, he said.A total of 745 hectares of land have been examined for plague, which hit the province in August 2009.The public health authorities have also held health education sessions for 52,400 people in the quake-hit zone, he added.
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1.Survivors recount earthquake's toll on schools in Qinghai Province China,UNICEF
ＲＶ＝108.3 2010/04/27 00:00
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,zone,body,receive
By Jin BoJIEGU, China, 26 April 2010 – When this small town in remote western China was hit by an earthquake on 14 April, 13-year-old Sangqiuyixi was sweeping the floor of his classroom at Yushu No.2 Ethnic High School. He broke the window and managed to escape.VIDEO: Watch now"The dust was blowing here and there," he recalled. "I could not even see the roads." The classroom building, and another building at his school, soon collapsed.The earthquake struck at around 8 a.m. local time, when most students were already in school. Like Sangqiuyixi, every student who survived now has a story to tell.Heavy toll on schoolsLocated in the southern part of Qinghai Province, Jiegu is the seat of Yushu County. It is close to the provincial border with Tibet Autonomous Region, and more than 90 per cent of its population of about 100,000 are ethnic Tibetans.The magnitude-7.1 earthquake took a heavy toll on schools. Local authorities estimate that 80 per cent of primary schools and half of secondary school buildings in the county were severely damaged.Yushu is a large but sparsely populated county, and half of the students in Jiegu are boarders from families who live hours away."When the earthquake struck, we were all eating in the dining hall in our school," said Dejiyongzang, a local teacher. "The students were horrified and ran to the playground."Nimajiangcai, a teacher from Yushu No.3 Wanquan Elementary School, said four of that school's seven one-story buildings had collapsed and at least 29 bodies had been found in the rubble.Resuming classesDespite such devastation, many schools are working quickly to resume classes and restore a sense of normalcy for students.At Yushu No.3 Wanquan Elementary School, volunteers have cleared away the rubble to make room for prefabricated classrooms. Nimajiangcai said he was looking for volunteers to who can both teach classes and provide psychological counselling for quake-affected children.With local education authorities vowing to resume classes by the end of April, such makeshift classrooms are appearing across the earthquake zone.The new Yushu School for Orphans, for example, opened on 17 April, just three days after the quake. Dejiyongzang, who now teaches there, said the school had two tents for boys and three for girls. Each tent accommodates between 20 and 30 children.Supplies and safe spacesIn addition to the aid provided by the Chinese Government, UNICEF is sending school tents, school supply kits and generators, as well as warm clothing and blankets for students in the affected areas.The agency is also joining hands with China's National Working Committee on Children and Women to establish 'child-friendly spaces' where young survivors of the earthquake can receive psycho-social support in a protective environment.Cairenlagong, a boy who lost his parents and younger brother in the quake and now lives with his uncle's family, said he hopes children will cherish the opportunity to continue going to school after the disaster. "I hope the school will be rebuilt and students will work hard," said Cairenlagong. Although he is now an orphan, he noted that many other young survivors are not, adding:" I hope they live for their younger brothers and sisters."
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2.China: Reconstruction of quake zone faces difficulties: vice governor,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝65.0 2010/04/27 00:00
キーワード：yuan,Sunday,zone,donation,receive
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Reconstruction of the quake zone in northwest China's Qinghai Province faces major challenges, Zhang Guangrong, deputy governor of Qinghai Province, said Monday.Zhang told a press conference in Beijing that the four major difficulties were:- Limited construction time due to the extreme weather, which was a feature of the area's latitude and altitude.- Inadequate transport capacity.- High construction costs brought about by the need to protect the local environment.- Insecure electricity supplies.Zhang said funding would be the key to solving the problem."As of 5 p.m. Sunday, we have received donations totaling 3.5 billion yuan (about 515 million U.S. dollars) in cash, plus relief materials valued at 4 billion yuan," Zhang said.Donations from around the world were still streaming in, he said.The reconstruction framework plan was to turn the quake-devastated Gyegu township into "a plateau ecological tourist city," and with the help of the people, the provincial government could overcome all the difficulties.The Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu is at the headwaters of three major Chinese rivers -- the Yellow, the Yangtze and the Lancang rivers -- and the place is also referred to as "Sanjiangyuan" in Chinese.At least 2,220 were confirmed dead Sunday from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the prefecture April 14.Editor: Lin Li
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3.China Int'l Search and Rescue Team returns from quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝40.3 2010/04/27 00:00
キーワード：yuan,zone,donate
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR), one of the main rescue groups sent to northwest China's Yushu prefecture after the April 14 earthquake, returned to Beijing Monday after finishing their work in the quake zone.The rescue workers of the team were from the General Hospital of the Armed Police Forces, the China Earthquake Administration and a sapper corps in Beijing.Equipped with two rescue vehicles, nine sniffer dogs and two tonnes of rescue equipment and medicine, the CISAR searched 208 sites and saved seven survivors who were buried in the debris.It also helped carry more than 100 tonnes of relief materials, and treat 1,507 injured people in 12 days. It donated 4 million yuan (585,811 U.S. dollars) in medical equipment and medicines in value.Established in 2001, the 230-strong CISAR previously helped in rescue work after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this year's Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Editor: An
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1.China: Tents given to villagers in earthquake-torn Yushu,ShelterBox
ＲＶ＝49.8 2010/04/28 00:00
キーワード：school,student,authority,distribute,distribution
Up to 2,000 people made homeless by a powerful earthquake that struck Western China have been given disaster relief tents from disaster relief charity ShelterBox.ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) member Tony Zhang (CN) travelled through mountainous terrain in freezing temperatures to get to Yushu, near the Tibetan border, which was hit by a 6.9 magnitude quake on April 14.Thousands of families lost their homes in the disaster which also collapsed houses, schools and offices.Tony distributed a total of 200 disaster relief tents to the outlying Yushu villages of Ri Ma, Shang Laxiu, Xia Laxiu, Niang La and Ba Tang, with help from local volunteers and NGOs.Fellow SRT members Andrew Gauci (AU) and Owen Smith (NZ) worked from Xining, Qinghai province's capital, to coordinate the difficult logistics of getting disaster relief tents to the area. They were supported by the charities, Friendship Charity Association, Shanghai Charity Foundation and local Rotarians.Team leader Owen said: 'Tony and our friend Awang, a Tibetan from Qinghai province, left Xining with a truck full of tents for the 800km road trip to Yushu from Xining. You go from about 2,600 metres above sea level at Xining to around 4,000 metres altitude at Yushu on this journey. Tony arrived the next evening after an 18-hour journey.'Tony said: 'We arrived at the epicenter at the town of Jie Gu and we were astounded by the scene in front of us because 90 per cent of buildings had collapsed.'A local NGO leader Yong Qiang took me to a huge camp for Internally Displaced People which was a racecourse before the quake. Our tents arrived and a group of villagers unloaded 100 tents. The distribution went smoothly without any chaos and tents were given to the most needy families. Then we moved to another village with the remaining 100 tents and villagers from scattered villages came up to pick up their tents.'I showed locally displaced people how to put up a tent and one family with five people moved into their 'new home' immediately. I visited several more sites on remote villages and found our tents had been perfectly put up by local people.'We finished the distribution in Yushu area and we are very happy with what has been achieved.''Many volunteers helped'Owen thanked the many volunteers who had helped with the transportation and distribution of the ShelterBox tents. 'In Yushu there were a number of volunteers from a local NGO who helped with tent erection demonstrations and distribution,' he said.'In Xining we also had help from university students who were volunteers with the Friendship Charity Association and waited up late into the night to help us transfer tents between trucks in the freezing cold.'Owen was impressed by the way the Chinese authorities responded to the disaster.'The Chinese government did a great job of getting aid to the people affected by the earthquake' he said. 'They really were putting in a huge effort but there was still need particularly in the remote villages.'
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2.China: The “First Hot Meal” for Jinde’s Yushu Team Members,Jinde Charities
ＲＶ＝30.1 2010/04/28 00:00
キーワード：Saturday,good,psychological
"Sister Zhang and I ate our first hot meal on Saturday evening after eight days since we got to Yushu. Watching the meal with hot steam spreading out, we just can not help being excited, even the tears are rolling down our checks." Sr. Pu thus reported this morning. The two sisters has been eating biscuit for eight days, meal seems a luxury thing to them for lacking of cooking tools.On April 24, Jinde's domestic partner, Xi'an CSSC bought for the sisters one set of cooking stove and cooking utensils from Xining, so the problem of cooking meals for the sisters was solved.When talking about the difficulties and challenges they are facing, sister Pu said: "It is the altitude sickness that test and challenge us most. Oxygen content here only takes up 60% of that in plain areas, so we often feel headache, a sense of choking in chest, and even vomit. The temperature also varies sharply from morning to night; strong wind becomes a daily thing here."Even so, six sisters from Jinde Charities and four sisters from Xi'an CSSC are indulged themselves to offering psychological counselling and medical care by visiting from tent to tent to those who are in need. They also visit two orphanages where they act as temporary teachers.Sr. Pu also shares with Jinde that, when they first came and conducted their work; they found that people were in great distress after the earthquake, but after several visits, the traumatized victims' emotion get much better and the beneficiaries express their appreciation for their work. Their appreciation and recognition motivate the sisters to continue to carry on their work.The third team members headed by JB Zhang, Director of Jinde Charities also reached Xining to talk with partners about next stage actions. They will go to Yushu immediately after the meeting in Xining.
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3.Jackie Chan helps raise money for China quake victims,AFP
ＲＶ＝21.4 2010/04/28 00:00
キーワード：donation,Tuesday
HONG KONG — Action star Jackie Chan and more than 300 entertainers have raised 4.5 million US dollars in a charity concert to help victims of a deadly earthquake in China this month, a report said Tuesday.The five-hour show on Monday evening also featured stars from China and Taiwan seeking donations, the official Xinhua news agency reported."We as a group of artists should make use of our influence to encourage everyone to dedicate their support in any form, especially at such a critical moment," Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen was quoted as saying.Last week, China held a national day of mourning for the more than 2,200 people who died after the powerful 6.9 magnitude quake struck northwestern China.Copyright ｩ 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.ｩAFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.
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1.China: Macao Red Cross collects 1.4 million USD donations for quake relief,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝64.6 2010/04/29 00:0-
キーワード：school,zone,receive,donation,Tuesday
The Macao Red Cross has received donations of 11 million patacas (1.4 million U.S. dollars) from local communities for quake-ravaged Yushu county in western China' s province of Qinghai, the charity said on Tuesday.The Macao Red Cross has already arranged two batches of supplies, mainly sweaters, to be delivered to Yushu county, which was hit by a 7.1-magnitude quake on April 14, leaving over 2,000 people dead and more than 12,000 injured, according to official figures.Most of the donations received by the charity will be used to fund reconstruction in the disaster zone, according to the Macao Red Cross.Aside from the Macao Red Cross, various Macao civil groups, schools and other institutions also raised money for the quake victims and sent the money to the quake zone through different channels.
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2.China: National Red Cross raises 887 million yuan for quake-hit area in Qinghai,RCSC
ＲＶ＝53.0 2010/04/29 00:00
キーワード：yuan,receive,donation,good
As at twelve o'clock on April 22, the national Red Cross at all levels received the total value of 887 million yuan of donations in funds and materials for Yushu earthquake relief, of which 711 million yuan of funds received, receiving materials worth 176 million yuan; offered Yushu earthquake aid funds and goods worth 194 million, of which 0.29 million yuan in cash aid, assistance materials worth 165 million yuan.In addition to receiving the donations, the Red Cross organizations all over the country are continuing thier supports in a variety of disaster relief operation. Among them, the Chinese Red Cross Emergency Water Supply Team arrived in Yushu disaster area on April 21, and was based in Yushu Racecourse point. The rescue teams are installing, commissioning of water equipment, preparing for work.Taiwan Red Cross medical teams has arrived in Xining, based in the First People's Hospital, the team had carried out its relief work. On April 21 morning the team rushed settlements in Golmud city in providing medical services for the victims. It is reported that the medical team are currently in good health, no signs of altitude sickness.On April 21, Qinghai Provincial Red Cross dispatched nine relief teams with materials transported to the disaster area. The relief goods included cotton tents, cotton-padded clothes, quilts, food, mineral water, medicine and others, worth a total of 10.8 million yuan.At present, the Chinese Red Cross has begun research for the deployment of post-disaster reconstruction.
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3.Aid flowing to Chinese quake survivors,Caritas
ＲＶ＝39.5 2010/04/29 00:00
キーワード：school,receive,student
Caritas has delivered further relief materials to survivors of an earthquake that hit Qinghai in western China on 14 April.Jiegu Town and Long Bao Town have just received 25,000 kg of flour, 35,000 kg of rice and 4,000 litres of cooking oil.Over 2,000 people have been reported dead from the 6.9 magnitude earthquake. More than 12,000 people were injured.The actual death toll could be significantly higher as teams are yet to reach some of the more remote parts of the region.The aid in Jiegu and Long Bao is being delivered by Caritas Hong Kong's local partner Catholic Social Service Centre of Xian Diocese (CSSC Xian).People around Jiegu have not had enough food for several days, reported CSSC Xian staff. Many buildings collapsed and roads have been cut off by landslides. Snow and government restrictions on travel have made delivery difficult in the remote mountainous region.Caritas Taiwan and its partners in China are also present around Jiegu. They distributed clothes, medicine and food in a makeshift camp where 20,000 people, many of them from destroyed villages in the area, found shelter."Thanks to our previous experience in this region, where we supported the construction of a school in Jiegu over the last years, we know a lot of locals and are familiar with the area. That helped us organize relief operations quickly", said Paul Liu from Caritas Taiwan."The first days after the earthquake, people did not have tents yet and the temperatures were freezing at night, a few degrees over zero. We distributed overcoats. Now people have received tents, stoves and more from the government. The most urgent needs are taken care of for now. Then these people will still need help to rebuild their lives."The primary and secondary school Caritas helped build in Jiegu was almost completely destroyed. A large number of its about 3,000 students were injured. Caritas Taiwan is already planning on supporting the school's reconstruction.Staff from different Caritas members and local partner organisations remain in the disaster area to offer medical aid and counseling.Please call Patrick Nicholson on +39 06 698 79 725 or +39 334 359 0700 or email nicholson@caritas.va with any requests.
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4.China: Qinghai earthquake update (6),Amity
ＲＶ＝25.7 2010/04/29 00:00
キーワード：Amity,good
The 6th batch of Amity relief goods arrived yesterday morning, Monday 28 April, in Yushu. 12,000 liters of rapeseed oil and 9000 boxes of sanitary napkins were subsequently distributed to earthquake victims in Longbao Township. More oil, milk and rice as well as candles and 30 solar power devices are on their way from Xining.
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1.China: Yushu Earthquake CHN101 Preliminary Appeal,ACT
ＲＶ＝90.0 2010/04/30 00:00
キーワード：child,Amity,school,snow,village,family,community
Appeal Target: US$1,404,126Balance Requested: US$1,336,586On April 14, 2010, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the population in remote Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in north-west China's Qinghai province. The death toll has risen to 2,187, more than 12,000 people have been reported injured, and approximately 100,000 people left homeless. (IFRC, 23rd April)ACT member Amity Foundation has been responding from the emergency onset, mobilising funds, staff and volunteers to bring immediate relief assistance to the affected population in the face of sub-zero weather conditions, snow, rain and sand storms, high altitude and difficult transport conditions to remote locations. Amity has transported food rations, quilts, drinking water and sanitary items for women to Yushu, with a 6th batch of relief supplies arriving on April 28th.While significant resources have been mobilized to date by the government, the Chinese Red Cross, Amity Foundation and other local organizations, Amity reports important gaps in the assistance to communities in the more remote townships and villages and in terms of special requirements for vulnerable groups.Therefore, Amity Foundation proposes to provide supplementary nutrition, candles and sanitary items to meet gaps in assistance and to minimize the suffering of vulnerable earthquake-affected people, including children, elderly and women. Amity also proposes to facilitate psychosocial support to support community resilience and recovery in at least two communities.Amity Foundation also proposes rehabilitation assistance ahead of more in-depth assessments by the end of May 2010. This includes strengthening community-based knowledge and assistance for the rehabilitation of the homes of 200 families and 5 schools serving the poorest and most vulnerable communities in remote areas.In addition, the appeal includes activities to share learning and strengthen the knowledge of Amity staff and partners in disaster project management, including the application of the Sphere guidelines for minimum standards in disaster response.A full appeal to replace this preliminary version is expected to be submitted by Amity Foundation by early June 2010, following further in-depth assessments.
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2.USAID/OFDA East Asia and Pacific Newsletter - April 2010,USAID
ＲＶ＝83.0 2010/04/30 00:00
キーワード：child,school,donation,health,Relief,family,community
DISASTER RESPONSEEmergency Relief in the Philippines: Save the Children's Program AccomplishmentsBetween September and October 2009, a series of tropical storms struck Philippine's Luzon island, causing widespread flooding and landslides throughout all regions of the island, including the Cordillera Administrative Region, the National Capital Region, and Cagayan Province.The unprecedented flooding affected more than 10 million people, killed 990 others, prevented nearly one million school-age children from attending classes, and damaged or destroyed more than 307,000 houses, according to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) National Disaster Coordinating Council and the World Bank and GRP-led post-disaster needs assessment.As part of the overall emergency response effort, USAID/ OFDA provided $800,000 to Save the Children/U.S. (SC/US) to support health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) emergency interventions in affected areas.SC/US continues to run four mobile clinics and is providing support to 10 barangay health stations. In the WASH sector, SC/US has provided 18,600 bottles of water purification solution, provided training to 28 community mobilizers in 21 evacuation centers, and built 190 emergency latrines, 20 units of hand washing points, and 60 units of bathing cubicles.DISASTER RESPONSEUSAID/OFDA Provides $100,000 to Support China's Earthquake Relief EffortsOn April 14, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked northwest China's Qinghai Province, followed by a series of aftershocks ranging from magnitude 4.1 to 5.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake's epicenter was located approximately 25 km from the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, Jiegu Township.As of April 25, the earthquake had killed more than 2,200 people and injured over 12,100 others, according to the Government of China (GoC). In addition, approximately 80 people remained missing. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported that the earthquake destroyed an estimated 85 percent of housing structures in and around Jiegu, displacing an estimated 100,000 people. As of April 19, search and rescue teams had rescued more than 6,100 people from damaged and collapsed buildings.USAID/OFDA responded swiftly to the earthquake by providing $100,000 through the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to Red Cross Society of China and the Qinghai Provincial Red Cross for the provision of emergency relief supplies to earthquake-affected families. U.S. Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. presented the donation to Red Cross Society of China Vice President Guo Changjiang in a ceremony at the U.S. Embassy on April 15. On April 21, the U.S. Embassy held a memorial ceremony in recognition of a nationwide day of mourning in China to pay a tribute to Qinghai earthquake victims.
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1.China: Reconstruction begins in quake-hit Yushu,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝54.4 2010/05/04 00:01
キーワード：Tuesday,village,ceremony,reconstruction,project,Luo,ethnic,live,program,respect
Reconstruction work began Tuesday in quake-devastated Yushu County in northwestern China's Qinghai Province.The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit April 14 destroyed most of the structures in the county's Gyegu Town, the quake's epicenter.Governor Luo Huining declared the start of the reconstruction program Tuesday morning at a foundation-laying ceremony held for the new neighborhoods to be built in Trangu and Ganda villages.The two villages were almost completely razed to the ground in the quake.A new rural neighborhood will be built on the debris of the two villages with planning, first-rate infrastructure and beauty, Luo said.Living conditions in the villages will be improved compared to before the quake, Luo said.Design of the new neighborhood will be in line with the principles of putting the people first, conserving the ecological system and respecting religion and ethnic culture, Luo added.The rebuilding of Trangu and Ganda villages will be a pilot project for the whole quake-devastated region's reconstruction program, according to Luo.
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1.China raises $637 mln for quake-hit Yushu,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝89.0 2010/05/05 00:00
キーワード：yuan,Tuesday,zone,donation,ministry,deliver,dollar,editor,raise,Jiang
China had raised 4.349 billion yuan (637 million U.S. dollars) of donations in money and materials for quake-hit Yushu as of Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.The donations included 3.66 billion yuan and quake-relief materials worth 686 million yuan as of 4:00 p.m., said a statement released by the ministry.The post said 635 million yuan, including 79 million yuan and materials worth 556 million yuan, had been channeled to the quake zone.It said 69,353 cotton-padded tents, 143,854 cotton-padded coats, together with other quake-relief materials, had been delivered to Yushu.At least 2,200 people died and more than 100,000 were left homeless when the 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the Yushu prefecture, Qinghai Province on April 14.Editor: Jiang Yuxia Source: Xinhua
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1.China: Quake-zone airport to run 24 hours a day,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝61.7 2010/05/06 00:00
キーワード：Tuesday,zone,good,tonne,offer,rescuer
China plans to upgrade the airport in quake-hit Yushu of Qinghai Province to offer 24-hour services.The work to improve the airport would be done in the coming three months, Hu Hongbin, head of the Qinghai safety supervision bureau under the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), told Xinhua Tuesday.Night navigation equipment will be installed at the Paltang airport at an altitude of 3,905 meters in Yushu, the highest airport in the world.Hu said air transportation had played a very important role in quake relief work.Air transport played an essential role in getting relief supplies in and taking the wounded out of the quake zone.The quake-hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture sits at an average altitude of 4,200 meters above sea-level. An 820-km highway is the only overland route from Yushu to the provincial capital of Xining. Air travel cuts the journey between the two places from 10 hours to just one hour."Thanks to Paltang airport, rescuers, tents and food were transported to the quake-zone in time," said Tong Guangyi, deputy head of the prefecture.Statistics show, as of April 29, 432 flights had taken off or landed at Paltang airport in Yushu, transporting 14,509 people and 2,015 tonnes of relief goods and materials."Lack of night navigation equipment and runway lightings increase the risks of flying at night," Hu said.But he said after the upgrade, the airport would be able to operate flights at night much more easily and safely.Editor: Jiang Yuxia
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2.China's quake zone kicks off flood control reconstruction,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝28.2 2010/05/06 00:00
キーワード：yuan,authority
China's quake-devastated Gyegu Township of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture began the reconstruction Wednesday of its flood control projects to prepare for the upcoming flood season, said local authorities.The action came after part of the 12-km embankments in Gyegu was damaged by the 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14, according to a spokesman with the Water Resources Department of Qinghai Province.With a total investment of about 42.5 million yuan (6.15 million U.S.dollars), the reconstruction would take six months, said the spokesman.The government would also build 5,486 meters of new embankments, said the spokesman.It would also dredge the Batang and Zhaxike rivers, he said.Editor: Fang Yang
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1.China: Further grants approved for earthquake victims in Qinghai,Govt. Hong Kong
ＲＶ＝78.5 2010/05/07 00:00
キーワード：Amity,grant,Adra,Relief,authority,project,Kong,hope,victim,Children
The Government has accepted the advice of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee and approved two grants from the Disaster Relief Fund totalling $0.6 million to two relief agencies to undertake relief projects for earthquake victims in Qinghai.Announcing the grants today (May 6), a government spokesman said that the committee hoped the two grants - one of $0.3 million to ADRA China and another of $0.3 million to Save the Children Hong Kong, would help provide relief to earthquake victims in Qinghai.The grants are further to a disbursement of $116.74 million made earlier for the government authorities of Qinghai Province, The Amity Foundation, The Salvation Army and World Vision Hong Kong to provide emergency relief to victims of the earthquake in Yushu. It takes the total value of grants for earthquake victims on the Mainland to $117.34 million."To ensure that the money will be used for the designated purposes, the two relief agencies have been asked to submit evaluation reports and audited accounts on the use of the grants after the relief projects have been completed," the spokesman said.
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1.Chinese government adds 200 mln yuan for quake relief,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝78.3 2010/05/09 00:00
キーワード：yuan,school,ministry,Friday,dollar,editor,repair,daily,epidemic,care
The Chinese government has allocated another 200 million yuan (29.3 million U.S. dollars) to quake relief in the northwest Qinghai Province on top of 500 million yuan already earmarked the Ministry of Finance said Friday.The funds will support relief efforts including resettlement subsidy on daily necessities medical care epidemic prevention re-opening of schools and infrastructure repairs according to the ministry's website.The ministry ordered timely allotment and tightened management of the relief funds to help the quake-affected residents to restore production and life as early as possible.The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Qinghai's Yushu prefecture on April 14 had left at least 2200 people dead with more than 100000 homeless.Editor: Deng ShashaSource: Xinhua
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1.CERF allocates $4.7 million to assist people affected by the earthquake in China,OCHA
ＲＶ＝119.9 2010/05/10 00:00
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,receive,health,ealth,community,power,family,follow
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will receive $1.5 million for the rubble clearance emergency rehabilitation of community infrastructure and provision of emergency shelter which will benefit a total of 95000 people. Some $1.4 million will go to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for emergency assistance to children women and families affected by the earthquake. The World Health Organization (WHO) will use $1 million to save lives and reduce suffering of 93000 people affected by the earthquake. The World Food Programme (WFP) will provide food to 125000 earthquake-affected people by using $450000. Finally the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will receive $350000 to provide reproductive health care and psycho-social support for over 20000 women.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in China's Qinghai Province on the morning of 14 April 2010. AIn addition to Yushu five neighbouring counties (Chengduo Zhiduo Zaduo Nangqian Qumalai) were also affected. In total the six affected counties are home to 357000 people 93 percent of whom are members of the Tibetan ethnic minority.The official death toll as of the end of April stood at 2220 with 70 missing and a further 12135 injured. Government estimates put the total number of affected at 265000. The earthquake also caused extensive damage to local infrastructure including roads health facilities schools and administration buildings. The quake damaged local hydro-electric plants and water purification systems disrupting power and water supplies to the region. Telecommunications installations were also initially affected.Although Government assessments are still ongoing early estimates indicate that at least 15000 houses many built of wood with earthen walls were damaged or destroyed leaving over 125000 in need of relocation and/or temporary shelter. The need for urgent action following the earthquake is further heightened by pre-existing high levels of poverty in the affected region.
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1.China: Qinghai earthquake update (8),Amity
ＲＶ＝86.3 2010/05/11 00:00
キーワード：Amity,good,distribute,ton,candle,distribution,follow,flour,rice,batch
Yet another batch of emergency relief goods from the Amity Foundation, the 8th of its kind, arrived in the Yushu region of Qinghai Province on 7 May. 70 tons of flour, 45 tons of rice, 18 tons of noodles, clothes, candles and CNY 520,000 worth of drugs were distributed in several places the same afternoon and on the following two days. The distribution was made difficult by bad weather, but Amity staffers, helped by villagers and volunteers, ensured an orderly process.
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1.China/Sichuan: Children come to terms with life after the earthquake,IFRC
ＲＶ＝71.6 2010/05/12 00:00
キーワード：child,school,good,student,health
12 May 2010By Francis Markus, International Federation, Guangyuan, SichuanThe children seem a happy and lively lot, so it's really distressing when an 11-year-old girl suddenly starts crying. We have been talking about how she felt in the earthquake and what advice she would have for other kids going through the same experience.We don't discuss the disturbing television images from the earthquake in Yushu, which took place on 14 April and lies a few hundred kilometres to the west. I don't know whether she's seen them, but with China calling a day of national mourning a few days after our visit, the issue is clearly going to be brought to children's minds.I've come to this primary school in a valley in Sichuan's Guangyuan Prefecture, about three hours' drive north of the capital Chengdu to talk to the children about how they feel about life, two years after the earthquake. The school has been rebuilt with support from the Red Cross Society of China.We are talking about the photographs the children have taken with disposable cameras, for a competition organised by the American Red Cross. They range from collapsed houses to construction crews, to friends and brothers or grandma washing the dishes.Pictures of hopeThe pictures all have a life-affirming quality about them, picking up aspects of their surroundings which they particularly want to celebrate or record."The picture which I took is of myself, holding our puppy, sitting under the blooming peach tree, the peach flowers are very beautiful, " says 11-year-old Yue Piao.Almost all the children say that the quake, which struck at 14.28 on 12 May 2008, was a frightening experience. Most tell us that it took them a couple of weeks, or a month, or maybe three months to get back to feeling normal again; although one or two say it was six months or a year.But painful memories can linger and come back, even after many years. Ramsey A. Rayyis, American Red Cross representative in China tells the following story: "I suddenly started feeling tearful about 10 days after I arrived in Sichuan following the 2008 quake. I was talking to the local Red Cross people about their response and it suddenly brought back memories for me of the California earthquake way back in 1989."At the outset of the disaster, psychosocial teams, supported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), visited many schools in the disaster area to train teachers in how best to help their students come to terms with what had happened.Today, the Red Cross Red Crescent is trying to share widely a whole set of psychosocial tools which have been developed to fit the China context since the earthquake in Sichuan.Psychosocial awarenessAlthough many of the wounds opened by the disaster have healed for the vast majority of youngsters, there is a need for more awareness of what the issues are and how to deal with them in the future."There are many lessons that have been learned from the Sichuan disaster, which can be applied to the Yushu earthquake and other emergencies," says Dr Jeya Kulasingam, the International Federation's health and PSP delegate for the Sichuan earthquake operation.The Red Cross Society of China, supported by the International Federation, has been systematically building up its psychosocial support capacity. The Yunnan province branch of the Chinese Red Cross, with its well-developed approach to mental health and situated in an area that has been subject to many destructive earthquakes and other disasters, is playing a prominent part in implementation.So, yes, there may be tears and there may be teachers advising the children to forget about all the bad things, but today Sichuan and the rest of China are definitely a more psychosocially aware place.
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2.China/Sichuan: Learning new skills for a better future,IFRC
ＲＶ＝69.9 2010/05/12 00:00
キーワード：child,receive,zone,good,health
MayFrancisMarkusInternationalFederationTownshipSichuanarrivekiwifruitorchardrain-soakedslopevillageinstructorexplainkiwitreedevelopillnesssecreteredliquidproblemrealisetreediseaseddiespotvillagerFucoupledozenmiddle-agedvillagerattendlivelihoodtrainingorganizeInternationalFederationRedCrossRedCrescentpartnershipInternationalLabourOrganizationlocallabourbureautraineecultivatekiwitreehopeexpandplantationfruitpartChinasweetjuicyqualitybringrevenuetimeconventionalcroprequirearealandsurveysurvivorSichuanearthquakeshowsignificantvocationaltrainingkindorderfindsourceincomeSichuanearthquakeoperationguesthousehillfarmguesthouserole-playingtimeroomfullocalwomancouplebringchildIorganizebirthdaypartyhusbandfarmhouserestaurantwomanplayrolecustomerfriendplaylandladygoodmakeofferingattractivetimepracticalpartsessionchefteachwomanculinarytrickrangeslicekidneywaferthinpiecestewlocalgingkofruitsugarpopulardesertkindtrainingIpartcountryfametastyspicycookingSunBinheadvocationalcollegeorganisecookordinaryfoodguestcityborespecialcharacterfoodhygieneimportantparttrainingpeopleforeseefarmguesthousebusinesssummermonthweathertarmacroadschedulecompleteclotheshairfacesplattertorrentmuddywaterwhooshopenwindowcarovertakedirtroadIforwardwindowfirmlyshuttimeheadbackvalleytownshipdrivedropfinaltrainingspeciallydesignshedplentyroomaircirculateroofdozencleanhealthypigboundtumbleraiseairInoticeunusualusualcharacteristicstinkpigstyabsentspeciallytreatmixturesawdustfungusgroundabsorbpig'wasteexplaininstructorsavelotcleanpersonpigopposepigconventionalmethodinterestedfindmethodraisepigMalocalvillagercoupledozenattendintroductorysessionChineseYuancostSwissfrancUSdollarspecialshedmomentordinarybrickbuildingshortagecapitalobstaclecitetraineeputpracticehouseholdvocationaltrainingprocessimplementaspectlivelihoodprogrammeinvolveschemeelementInternationalsupportsurvivorSichuanearthquakezonehouseholdreceiveassistancerebuildhomecommunity-basedhealthpsychosocialsupportwatersanitationdisasterpreparednessprogrammeimplementbuildbackgoodsafecommunity12 May 2010By Francis Markus, International Federation, Qingping Township, Sichuan, ChinaAs we arrive in the kiwi fruit orchard up a rain-soaked slope from the village, the instructor is just explaining what to do if a kiwi tree develops an illness and secretes red liquid."We have come across this problem before, but what we didn't realise is that if the tree becomes diseased and dies, you have to replant in a different spot," says villager Fu Guangwen.He is one of a couple of dozen mostly middle-aged villagers attending a livelihoods training course, organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in partnership with the International Labour Organization and the local labour bureau.Some of the trainees had cultivated a few kiwi trees before, but hoped to expand their plantations. The fruit, which is known in this part of China for its sweet, juicy quality, can bring in revenue several times that of conventional crops requiring the same area of land."Surveys done among survivors of the Sichuan earthquake show that there is still a significant need for vocational training of various kinds in order to help find new sources of income," says Baktiar Mambetov, IFRC Livelihoods Delegate for the Sichuan Earthquake operation.Guesthouses and mealsFurther down the hill, in one of the farm guesthouses, it's role-playing time for a roomful of local women, a couple of whom have brought along their children."I would like to organize a birthday party for my husband at your farmhouse restaurant," says the woman playing the role of a customer, while her friend, playing the landlady, does her best to make her offering as attractive as possible.It's soon time for the practical part of the session, with the guesthouse's chef teaching the women culinary tricks ranging from how to slice kidney into wafer thin pieces, to how to stew the local gingko fruits with sugar into a popular desert."Do they actually need this kind of training," I wondered, in a part of the country famed for its tasty, spicy cooking? "Well, actually yes," says Sun Bin, who heads the vocational college that is organising the courses."It's not enough to be able to cook ordinary food, because guests from the city are bored with that, they want something which has a special character." He also says that food hygiene is an important part of the training, which is something that people may not appreciate here by themselves.He foresees that the farm guesthouse business will really take off in the summer months, when the weather becomes better, and when a new tarmac road is scheduled to be completed.Since my clothes, hair and face just got splattered by a torrent of muddy water whooshing through the open window as a car overtook us on the dirt road, I would look forward to that.Keeping the window firmly shut this time, we head back down the valley to Jiulong township, about an hour's drive away, to drop in on a third and final training course. In a specially designed shed with plenty of room for air to circulate under the roof, several dozen very clean and healthy pigs are bounding and tumbling around.Raising pigsSniffing the air, I notice something unusual. The usual characteristic stink of the pigsty is absent."The specially treated mixture of sawdust and fungus on the ground absorbs the pigs' waste" explains the instructor. "It saves a lot of cleaning out too. One person can look after 500 pigs, as opposed to 100 pigs using the conventional methods.""I'm very interested to find out about this method of raising pigs," says Ma Guiqun, a local villager, who's one of the couple of dozen attending the introductory session. But she says the 35,000 Chinese Yuan Renminbi cost (5,389 Swiss francs, 3,854 euros or 5,126 US dollars) of the special shed is beyond her means at the moment."Perhaps we could use an ordinary brick building," she says.A shortage of capital is one of the obstacles cited by many of the trainees to being able to put into practice what they learn.60,000 households helped"Besides vocational training, we are in the process of implementing the other aspects of our livelihoods programme, which involves a microcredit scheme," says Baktiar Mambetov.The Livelihoods Programme is just one element of the International Federation's support for survivors in the Sichuan earthquake zone. More than 60,000 households have received assistance in rebuilding their homes.Meanwhile, community-based health and psychosocial support, water and sanitation and disaster preparedness programmes are also being implemented to help build back better and safer communities.
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3.China: Vice Premier orders reconstruction finished in three years in Qinghai quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝55.9 2010/05/12 00:00
キーワード：Tuesday,zone,hospital,reconstruction,health
YUSHU, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has called on reconstruction teams to finish their work within three years in the earthquake stricken areas of the northwestern Qinghai Province.Li, also member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remark during a visit Monday and Tuesday in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, epicenter of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14.He asked relief workers to finish removing debris, select the site of a new township and the layout of urban and rural areas by the end of May.By the end of this year, reconstruction teams should strive to finish all reinforcement work for reparable buildings in the quake zone, finish building new homes for most rural residents and herdsmen, and start building new homes for most urban residents, Li said.He asked local government officials to ensure that all quake survivors get enough and safe food, water and other necessities.Li urged local health and disease control personnel to prevent disease outbreaks and prepare effective treatments for altitude sickness before reconstruction workers arrived.Visiting a residential construction site in Jiegu Town, Li urged that the quality of new homes should be guaranteed.He also encouraged local quake survivors to overcome difficulties to resume their normal lives.Supplies of water and electricity as well as transport are being restored in the severely damaged Jiegu Town.Li outlined five aspects for the future relief work:-- Funding for quake survivors' subsidies, emergency rescue and temporary resettlement must be secured.-- Authorities should work out a general plan and special projects for reconstruction as soon as possible. The central government would provide favorable tax, loans, land and employment policies.-- Before large-scale reconstruction, designs for residential houses and public facilities should be prioritized.-- Heating and winter tents should be prepared for survivors who could not move into new buildings before cold weather arrives.-- School buildings, hospitals as well as water, electricity, telecommunications and transport facilities should be prioritized in reconstruction.Ethnic customs and traditions should be respected, he said.
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4.China/Sichuan: Rebuilding community infrastructure,IFRC
ＲＶ＝47.3 2010/05/12 00:00
キーワード：school,hospital,good,health
12 May 2010By Francis Markus, International Federation, Mianyang, Sichuan, ChinaThe last time I visited the site of this hospital, just outside the city of Mianyang, in the spring of last year, it was a skeleton.So it is nice to see some flesh on the bones, even if the main 60-bed ward building is still a little bit of a work in progress.Talking of bones: one of the first patients we meet in this new hospital, the construction of which was supported by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), is 55-year-old Zheng Xuanlian.She has just been in for about six days for an operation to reset a badly broken arm. She broke it when the construction supplies truck that her husband was driving with material to rebuild their earthquake-shattered home overturned."My husband was fine," she says. Luckily for him, he has gone out to the market and doesn't have to face our questions about his driving skills.Then there's an elderly man, shuffling along the corridor as he recovers from a hip operation.Medical help close at handBefore, many of these patients might have had to go into the main city hospital in Mianyang. But now, after the township's old hospital was damaged beyond repair by the quake, RCSC has helped to "build back better".Of course this doesn't come without challenges, as the hospital director Li Jing explains: "The biggest issue we face is in making sure the skills of our personnel keep pace with the upgrading of our equipment." But that is probably an enviable position for a health institution to be in.Happy classroomsA short distance away, at the local junior middle school, the pupils are now also safely ensconced in their new classroom block.They have just finished lessons in algebra and history. I know China is ahead of the times in many areas, but I was still a bit taken by surprise when I asked one girl what were they reading in the history lesson and, perhaps slightly nervous at being questioned by a foreigner, she replied: "the Second and Third World Wars."Now, classes give way to the mid-morning break and you can see that their space is still being temporarily invaded by 600 cute red-scarfed tearaways from the local primary school, which hasn't yet been fully rebuilt.The older, junior middle school pupils are confined to the open air gangways of the classroom block, while the pint-sized young ones have free reign of the yard down below.The whole atmosphere is pretty cheerful, thanks in part to the glowing orange colour of the school. Teachers say it used to be an antiseptic white. The new colour took some getting used to, but everyone seems fine with it now.They're glad to be studying in proper classrooms, as opposed to the temporary shelters which they had been in since the quake. However, they have to endure the temporary shelter dorms for a few more months.140 new homesThe catchment area of both these schools, which are being reconstructed with RCSC funding, includes Tong Fu village, just a few kilometres away, where we meet the grandparents of one primary school lad.Chen Youhui and his wife, Chen Feng, are among nearly 140 families who have moved into brand new homes with RCSC support in the past few months.Although most of the households still have considerable debts to the bank to pay off, at least they have been able to restart their lives and put the trauma of the quake behind them in the tranquil setting of the rolling fields of rape seed and ponds of quacking ducks.
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1.China: Hygiene Supplies were distributed in Yushu,Jinde Charities
ＲＶ＝87.0 2010/05/13 00:00
キーワード：school,good,Relief,distribute,distribution,month,camp,community,ealth,woman
Jinde Charities and Catholic Social Service Centre - Xi'an Qinghai Relief office distributed two months supply of sanitary napkins to over 2,300 women from May 6. Staff from the Qinghai Relief office, the Medical and Mental Health Station and 9 local volunteers distributed the relief items over several days. In order to target the most vulnerable populations, the distribution took place at over 10 locations in the affected area.In Saima camp, the largest temporary community in the affected area, over 5,300 packets were distributed. Outside the camp, 1000 women supply through distributions in public areas, Buddhist nunneries and schools.Other relief goods like tents, foods, clothes are being prepared and are about to be sent to disaster areas to meet the urgent needs of local victims.
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1.WFP purchases emergency food for China quake survivors,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝98.7 2010/05/14 00:00
キーワード：child,receive,tonne,month,distribute,community,ealth,flour,dollar,Zhang
BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- As China marks its second National Disaster Prevention Day on May 12, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has purchased 230 tonnes of vegetable oil and 50 tonnes of fried barley flour to be distributed to survivors of the earthquake that struck Yushu in Qinghai Province on 14 April 2010.WFP China Director Anthea Webb said, "WFP is tremendously impressed by the Chinese government's rapid response and people' s generosity towards survivors of the earthquake.""We aim to complement the help already provided by making sure people have the nutrition they need to survive and the strength they require to rebuild their communities over the next three months," Webb said.WFP will work with the Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Civil Affairs to provide enough vegetable oil for 125,000 people for 72 days.In coordination with the Qinghai Bureau of Health and the United Nations Children's Fund, WFP will provide 1,800 children, aged from 6 to 36 months, with a supplementary ration of vegetable oil and fried barley flour for the coming three months.WFP has received 450,000 million U.S. dollars from the UN' s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for this operation.All of the food was purchased in China from local companies such as China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) and Yulan Coarse Cereals Company from Gansu Province, which reacted swiftly to WFP's call for suppliers.WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.Editor: Zhang Xiang
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1.China allocates $1.3 bln for quake reconstruction,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝101.3 2010/05/19 00:00
キーワード：monk,yuan,reconstruction,school,month,year
19 May 2010 12:45:21 GMTBEIJING, May 19 (Reuters) - China has allocated 9 billion yuan ($1.32 billion) for reconstruction this year in Yushu County, a Tibetan area devastated by an earthquake last month, China Central Television reported on Wednesday.The reconstruction plan, decided during a weekly cabinet meeting, sets out a three-year target for rebuilding homes, schools and roads in Yushu County, where the April 14 earthquake killed more than 2,400 people and ruined the county seat, Gyegu.The Finance Ministry would allocate more money in the second and third years, CCTV said.The reconstruction plan for Yushu appears to have been developed along the same lines as a three-year plan for Sichuan, where a devastating quake killed nearly 90,000 people in 2008.On the second anniversary of that quake, reconstruction efforts are going full-tilt but some locals complain they have little say in the shape of their rebuilt hometowns.That could become a bigger complaint in ethnically Tibetan Yushu, where monks from outside the region were ordered to make way for government-led reconstruction teams. Chinese media have praised rescue efforts by paramilitary police and the army while rarely mentioning monks or Buddhist volunteers.The Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism but a controversial figure because he was selected by Beijing over the choice of the exiled Dalai Lama, conducted prayer ceremonies last weekend in Yushu, state media said.He was preceded by paramilitary police and police dogs, according to a source at the Kumbum, or Taersi, monastery near the capital of Qinghai Province, where the Panchen Lama stayed on his way to Yushu.In Qinghai, a ceremony was held on Wednesday to thank more than 6,000 paramilitary troops involved in the rescue, CCTV said. ($1=6.827 Yuan)(Reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Paul Tait)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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2.China: Residential houses priority for Yushu post-quake reconstruction,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝99.2 2010/05/19 00:00
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,hospital,zone,donation,student,year
GOV.cn Wednesday, May 19, 2010The Chinese government has given priority to the rebuilding and repairing of residential houses during post-quake reconstruction in northwestern Yushu.A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 14, leaving at least 2,200 dead."Houses that are repaired must be repaired in a timely manner. For those that are to be rebuilt, residents' wishes regarding house style must be respected," the statement released after a regular State Council meeting on Wednesday said.The statement noted the difficulties the reconstruction work faces: cold weather, low oxygen-levels, a fragile ecosystem, and inadequate construction resources.According to the statement, the country plans to spend three years finishing the "main reconstruction task."The government vowed to build the "safest and most stable" schools and hospitals in the quake zone while protecting local ethnic and religious cultural heritage.Infrastructure for civil aviation, postal services and communications are another focus of post-quake reconstruction, the statement said.According to the statement, the rebuilding will mainly rely on 9 billion yuan (1.32 billion U.S. dollars) from the central government in the first year.The money, along with local funds and donations, will be managed by the local government in Qinghai in accordance with the demands of various projects and their priority level.The State Council urged the Qinghai provincial government and other departments to carefully organize and coordinate the reconstruction work.It also urged authorities map out scientific plans to ensure supervision of the use of funds and the quality of of reconstruction projects.The meeting was presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao.Also on Wednesday, the Ministry of Education said 5,074 local middle school students will voluntarily transfer to seven other regions to resume their studies as teaching resources and space in the quake zone are inadequate.Editor: An LuSource: Xinhua
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1.China: Mental care facility established to ease Yushu quake victims' trauma,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝102.8 2010/05/21 00:00
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,psychological,health,year,rebuild,dollar,facility,family
YUSHU, Qinghai, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A mental health facility was established in Yushu, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Thursday to provide psychological counseling for the victims of last month's massive earthquake.The facility will ease the quake-victims' psychological trauma.The April 14 quake took the lives of at least 2,200, injured another 12,135 and left countless emotionally scared and reeling from the loss of family members and friends."It may take five to ten years for victims to recover from their psychological trauma. It is hard to heal such trauma without professional help," said Shi Zhanbiao, an expert with the Psychological Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).The facility was established by the institute and the Qinghai Academy of Social Sciences.It will help restore quake-victims' mental health, he said.China's central government has allocated 9 billion yuan (1.32 billion U.S. dollars) for reconstruction in quake-devastated Yushu this year, according to a statement issued after a regular State Council meeting Wednesday.The meeting also established a three-year target for rebuilding homes, schools and roads in the county.The Ministry of Finance will allocate more money in the second and third years.Editor: yan
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1.China: Premier Wen calls for guarantee of living necessities in quake zone,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝100.6 2010/05/24 00:00
キーワード：reconstruction,school,receive,Sunday,hospital,zone,donation,good
BeijingMayXinhua--ChinesePremierWencallauthorityensureearthquakesurvivorProvincereceiveadequatefoodfinancialassistancemaintainlivelihoodrebuildprojectfinishyearpriorityresidentialbuildingpublicfacilityschoolhospitalWenWenmakecallspeechpublishSundayStateCouncilGeneralOfficemeetingdiscussreliefworkMayvisitquakezoneprefectureWensupplyfoodcookingoilvegetablefuelreliefallowanceprovideensurelivestandardschoolresumetenttemporarybuildingdebrisclearquicklydisposalgarbagehumanwastelivestockcarcaseproperlycarryWenadequatedisinfectantchemicalequipmentprepareauthorityalertoutbreakdiseaseWendamagedroadbridgerepairairportoperationguaranteemaintainefficienttransportwaterpowersupplyrestorerapidlyWenagriculturalproductionrestoregovernmentfarmerbuyseedfertilizermarketrebuildgoodsupplypricestabilizeWenpsychologicalassistanceprovidepeoplesuffertraumaproblemreconstructionplanningscientificallyevaluatebasissurveygeologicalhydrologicalecologicalconditionreconstructionsiteavoidearthquakefaultlineWenurgeauthorityconsiderationenvironmenteconomicsocialdevelopmentpovertyalleviationlivelihoodpromotionreconstructionworkcarryconcerndistinctiveethniccharacteristicgeologicalconditionWenstressprotectionTibetanculturereconstructionworkpromisegovernmentsupportrepairdamagedtempleprotectkeyculturalrelicecosystemfragilesensitivehumanactivityrebuildworkenvironmentallyfriendlyhighrecyclingratebuildmaterialreconstructionfundprovidecentralgovernmentsupportpublicdonationfavorabletaxationemploymentfinancelandpolicyenactWenpremierpraiseethnicreligiousgroupplayimportantrolereliefworkeffortintensifymaintainethnicunityavoiddisputeurgelocalauthoritycarereliefworkerguaranteebasicworkinglivingconditionWenvisitAprildayearthquakekillpeopleleavehomelesseditorZhangXiangBEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on authorities to ensure earthquake survivors in Qinghai Province receive adequate food and financial assistance to maintain their livelihoods.Rebuilding projects should be finished within three years, with a priority on residential buildings and public facilities such as schools and hospitals, Wen said.Wen made the call in a speech, which was published Sunday by the State Council General Office, at a meeting to discuss relief work on May 1 during his second visit to the quake zone in Yushu prefecture.Wen said supplies of food, cooking oil, vegetables, fuel and relief allowances should be provided to ensure living standards, and schools should resume as soon as possible in tents or temporary buildings.Debris should be cleared quickly, and the disposal of garbage, human waste and livestock carcases must be properly carried out, Wen said.Adequate disinfectant chemicals and equipment should be prepared, and authorities should be alert for outbreaks of disease, Wen said.Damaged roads and bridges should be repaired and airport operations should be guaranteed to maintain efficient transport. Water and power supplies should also be restored rapidly, Wen said.Agricultural production should be restored, and the government must help farmers buy seed and fertilizers. Markets should be rebuilt and goods supplies and prices stabilized, Wen said.Psychological assistance should be provided to people suffering from trauma problems.Reconstruction planning should be scientifically evaluated on the basis of the surveys of the area's geological, hydrological and ecological conditions, and reconstruction sites should avoid earthquake fault lines, Wen said.He urged authorities to take into consideration the environment, economic and social development, poverty alleviation and livelihood promotion in the reconstruction.The work should also be carried out with concern for the prefecture's distinctive ethnic characteristics and geological conditions.Wen stressed in particular the protection of Tibetan culture during reconstruction work, and he promised the government would support the repair of damaged temples and protect key cultural relics.Because Yushu's ecosystem is fragile and sensitive to human activities, rebuilding work must be environmentally friendly, with a high recycling rate of building materials, he said.The reconstruction fund would be provided by the central government and supported by public donations. Favorable taxation, employment, finance and land use policies would also be enacted, Wen said.The premier praised ethnic and religious groups who had played important role in relief work. He said efforts should be intensified to maintain ethnic unity and avoid disputes.He also urged local authorities to care for the relief workers, and guarantee their basic working and living conditions.Wen first visited Yushu on April 15, the day after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which killed at least 2,200 people and left more than 100,000 homeless.Editor: Zhang Xiang
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2.China's donations for quake-hit Yushu top 800 mln USD,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝62.6 2010/05/24 00:00
キーワード：yuan,zone,donation,Saturday,good
BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese people and organizations had donated 5.51 billion yuan (807 million U.S. dollars) in cash and goods for earthquake relief in west China's Qinghai Province as of Friday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.The donations included 4.82 billion yuan in cash and materials worth 689 million yuan, said a statement from the ministry Saturday.The statement said all the donations had been allocated to the quake zone, and 97 million yuan of cash had been used for emergency support for living necessities and treatment of the injured.At least 2,200 people died and more than 100,000 were left homeless after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Qinghai's Yushu prefecture on April 14.Editor: Yang Lina
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3.China Construction Bank lend $147 mln for quake reconstruction,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝40.9 2010/05/24 00:00
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China Construction Bank (CCB), one of the country's four leading state-owned lenders, announced Friday it is set to lend 1 billion yuan (146.5 million U.S. dollars) for reconstruction in quake-devastated Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province.The April 14 quake took the lives of at least 2,200 and injured another 12,135.The CCB made the commitment to the Qinghai Development and Reform Commission, the top provincial economic planner, to finance reconstruction of transportation, electricity, telecommunication and education facilities, the bank told Xinhua Friday.China's central government has allocated 9 billion yuan this year for reconstruction in quake-hit Yushu, according to a statement issued after a Wednesday executive meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet.Editor: Zhang Xiang
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1.China: Orphans from Yushu receive free medical insurance,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝125.6 2010/05/27 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,Tuesday,receive,donation,year,orphan,donate,disease,insurance
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,600 orphans from Yushu, a Tibetan prefecture in Qinghai Province devastated by earthquake in April, have received one year of free medical insurance for 12 critical illnesses thanks to joint efforts by the government and charity organizations.The new program was jointly launched by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) and the China Children Insurance Foundation (CCIF). It is designed for all healthy Chinese orphans aged under 18 who have registered with the MCA.The insurance is valid for a year from May 16. Each insured orphan is covered for 100,000 yuan at a premium of 50 yuan (about 7.5 U.S. dollars) per year, said Hu Haidi, the CCIF managing director.The 12 illnesses covered are: malignant tumors (including leukemia); organ and stem cell transplant; acute kidney failure; aplastic anemia; benign brain tumors; acute hepatitis; sequelae of cerebritis or meningitis; infantile paralysis; serious juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; serious Kawasaki disease; Myasthenia Gravis; and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.By the end of April, the insurance had been given to more than 20,000 orphans in Beijing, Tianjin, Qinghai and Shanxi, and other places. Of them, 1,625 are from Yushu."We plan to extend the insurance coverage to all 700,000 officially registered orphans in China. But the children in Yushu are obviously on the top of our applicant list," said Hu.CCIF launched the "Heart One Plus One" program on Tuesday to solicit donations to buy the insurance for the orphans.The public and businesses can make a donation online and through mobile text messages, as well as through banks and post offices.Information on how to donate is available at: http://1j1.cctf.org.cn.There are about 360 million children in China. Less than half are covered by commercial medical insurance or social welfare, according to the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF). Even those who are covered cannot afford the expensive treatment for diseases like leukemia."The insurance mechanism is something that can be done before disaster occurs. It will benefit thousands of children," said Chen Xiaoxia, the CCTF secretary general.Editor: Deng Shasha
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1.UNICEF supports resumption of education in China earthquake zone,UNICEF
ＲＶ＝149.1 2010/05/28 00:00
キーワード：UNICEF,child,school,student,education,snow,year,month,health,class
Remote schools face challenges of high wind and extreme weatherBEIJING, China, 27 May 2010 – As relief pours into Yushu County, the epicentre of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck China's Qinghai province on 14 April, outlying areas on the Qinghai Plateau still require urgent attention.In a recently concluded joint assessment mission to Yushu and Chenduo Counties, UNICEF and local education authorities discovered that students and teachers are struggling to resume classes amidst high winds and extreme weather.The mission was timed to coincide with the second of UNICEF's several shipments of 5,000 student kits, 5,000 sets of children's winter jackets, trousers and socks, and 2,000 pairs of children's boots – all distributed to children in Yushu and Chenduo Counties from 9 to 13 May.Battling sleet and snowMore than 200 km away from the epicentre, Qingshuihe Primary School in Chenduo County sits exposed among snow-capped mountains at an altitude of 4,500 metres. UNICEF and its partners battled snow and sleet to reach the school.Around 1,300 students and 120 teachers there have been able to resume classes in UNICEF-supplied winterized school tents.About 99 per cent of school buildings serving the student population of 100,000 in Chenduo County sustained too much structural damage in the quake to be used safely for classes or dormitory space. In the days following the disaster, UNICEF rushed 150 winterized school tents to nine school jurisdiction areas, allowing 7,500 students to return to school."Without the tents provided by UNICEF, it would have been impossible for us to fully resume classes after the earthquake," said Chenduo County Vice-Governor Suo He.Concerns about continued schooling"We've seen very little assistance reach these places," UNICEF China Deputy Representative David McLoughlin said during the mission. "UNICEF has been able to deliver school tents with double insulation so that children can resume schooling. It's a great privilege for us to be able to help, yet challenges remain because this high-altitude plateau area suffers from extreme weather conditions."The year-round average temperature in the area is minus 5 degrees Celsius, and the winter lasts for eight months, added Mr. McLoughlin. "We are looking at the government plan and will support its efforts to ensure that the children here can have quality education," he said.Headmasters and local education officials in Chenduo voiced deep concern that schooling may only last until the end of August. By then, the hazardous cold season will set in and winterized tents will not be sufficient to shelter students against the plateau's low temperatures, snow, sleet and severe winds. Though schools in Yushu County are moving towards prefabricated classrooms, it may take much longer to set up such facilities in Chenduo and other areas that were less-affected by the earthquake but where needs are nonetheless urgent.'Tough time for the children'UNICEF is working closely with local counterparts to identify isolated schools where educational supplies remain inadequate. The agency will help children in such schools enjoy equal access to continuous, quality education. UNICEF is also looking at the needs of boarding schools, where a large majority of students and teachers now live in tents without decent hygiene and warm clothes."It's a very tough time for the children, but they are so keen to be back in school. This is an area with a high degree of poverty and the children desperately want education," said Mr. McLoughlin.In addition to support for emergency education, UNICEF is assisting the relief efforts of the Government of China in maternal and child health, hygiene, sanitation and psycho-social support for children affected by the earthquake.
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1.Final China quake toll near 3000 dead and missing,Reuters - AlertNet
ＲＶ＝102.6 2010/05/31 00:00
キーワード：yuan,reconstruction,school,year,student,month,Zhang
BEIJING, May 31 (Reuters) - Nearly 3,000 people are dead or missing after a strong quake in China's northwest last month, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday, giving a final toll for the tremor in largely Tibetan Yushu county.The April 14 quake killed 2,698 people, and 270 are still missing, Xinhua quoted the vice governor of Qinghai province, Zhang Guangrong, as saying at a news conference.The figures were a significant increase from previous tolls given by the government.Among the victims were 199 students and one Hong Kong resident, and all but 11 of the dead had been identified, Zhang added.The magnitude 6.9 quake hit a remote, mountainous region and most of the dead were ethnic Tibetans in the devastated county seat, Gyegu.Rescue efforts were complicated by poor transport links, difficult weather and freezing temperatures.China has allocated 9 billion yuan ($1.32 billion) for reconstruction this year, with a three-year target for rebuilding homes, schools and roads, state media have reported. (Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Sugita Katyal)For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.alertnet.org
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2.China puts final death toll from Qinghai quake at 2698,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝32.6 2010/05/31 00:00
キーワード：student,body,Zhang
XINING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The final death toll from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that jolted Yushu of northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 14 was 2,698, with 270 people missing, vice governor Zhang Guangrong said Monday.Among the victims, 2,687 had been identified and the identities of 11 bodies remained unknown, Zhang told a press conference.The vice governor said the killed include 199 students and a Hong Kong resident.Editor: Zhang Xiang
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3.ETHIOPIA-MOZAMBIQUE: Asia most at risk" from natural disasters",IRIN
ＲＶ＝32.4 2010/05/31 00:00
キーワード：year,Haiti,risk
NAIROBI, 31 May 2010 (IRIN) - Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and Pakistan top a new ranking of countries at "extreme risk" of experiencing natural disasters compiled by a global risk assessment company.The Natural Disaster Risk Index (NDRI) released on 27 May by Maplecroft, ranks 229 countries according to the human impact of natural disasters in terms of deaths per annum and per million of population, plus the frequency of events as well as the likelihood of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, storms, flooding, droughts, landslides, extreme temperatures and epidemics. Asia accounts for most of the disaster-related deaths since 1980.Ranking countries most vulnerable to natural disasters over the past 30 years could enable businesses and investors to identify risks to international assets while supporting humanitarian efforts to push governments into investing in disaster risk reduction initiatives.African countries at extreme risk are Ethiopia, Sudan and Mozambique, with 95 percent of casualties due to drought. Since 1980 drought has caused 9,800 deaths in Ethiopia, 5,300 in Sudan (ranked fifth) and over 3,400 in Mozambique (ninth).According to experts, unlike earthquakes and storms, drought damage is more difficult to detect, both in terms of human lives and economic loss because it is a slow onset disaster.Whereas France and Italy, respectively ranked 17 and 18, are the most vulnerable countries in Europe because of the 40,000 people who died in heat waves in 2003 and 2006, the US, with more than 8,000 lives lost over 30 years, is highly susceptible to hurricanes and storms and ranked 37th.Haiti and China are respectively at numbers eight and 12 among the countries at highest risk. The earthquake in Qinghai Province on 13 April 2010, of almost the same magnitude as the one that hit Haiti on 12 January, cost the lives of 2,187 people, against 230,000 who died in Haiti.The countries least at risk are Andorra, Bahrain, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Qatar, San Marino and the United Arab Emirates.In line with the data produced by Maplecroft, a study by the UN Development Programme says that 85 percent of the people exposed to earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods and droughts in the past 10 years live in countries having either medium or low human development.Pedro Dabase, head of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR) regional office for Africa, told IRIN: "In these types of rankings, the variables to look at are the time period of analysed data, types of hazards and vulnerabilities to natural disasters. This is because countries that face similar patterns of natural hazards often experience widely differing impacts when disasters occur, depending in large part on the kind of development choices they have made."If one looks at the frequency of earthquakes and cyclones in Haiti in the past 100 years, the situation of the country would not be considered as worrisome, unlike the past 10 years, with great human losses caused by flooding almost every year and hurricanes in 2004, 2005 and 2008."In terms of impacts for example, the recent earthquake in Chile, of the same magnitude as Haiti, recorded about 100,000 deaths but in terms of economic losses it registered US$22 billion, versus the $8 billion estimated for Haiti. Therefore, the vulnerability of Chile in terms of economic loss is higher than Haiti, which instead caused more losses in terms of human lives," Dabase told IRIN.Figures produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology (CRED) at the beginning of 2010 highlighted that in the past 10 years 3,852 disasters killed more than 780,000 people, affecting more than two billion and causing an economic loss of $960 billion.According to ISDR, earthquakes, followed by storms (22 percent) and extreme temperatures (11 percent) are the deadliest natural hazards of the past 10 years and remain a serious threat to millions of people worldwide.ISDR also ranked the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 as the most deadly disaster of the decade, with 226,408 deaths; followed by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, which killed 138,366 people, and the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008, causing the deaths of 87,476 people."Due to climate change, extreme hydro-meteorological events are predicted to increase and given the impact on the countries not at risk of being directly affected by natural disaster, we advise the need for even the wealthiest countries to focus on disaster risk reduction," said Maplecroft's environmental analyst, Anna Moss.cp/mw[END]A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org Une s駘ection d'articles d'IRIN sont publi駸 sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.orgThis article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.Cet article ne refl鑼e pas n馗essairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.
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1.City leaders join UN Making Cities Resilient campaign,ISDR
ＲＶ＝108.7 2010/06/01 00:00
キーワード：UNICEF,risk,Haiti,good,health,campaign,city,Development,Council,storm
Geneva, Switzerland – Local governments are showing their commitment to protect cities and citizens from natural hazards by signing up to a new global disaster risk reduction campaign.Davos (Switzerland), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Santa Tecla (El Salvador) and Baofeng (China) are the latest to join the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction's Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready campaign, which is aimed at guiding to process to put in place much-needed disaster reduction plans.On 30 May 2010, leaders from eight cities – Bonn (Germany), Mexico City (Mexico), Saint-Louis (Senegal), Larreynaga-Malpaisillo (Nicaragua), Karlstad (Sweden), North Little Rock (Arkansas), Durban (South Africa) and Albay (the Philippines) – took part in the UNISDR's official campaign launch at the First World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bonn."We understand that there is an urgent need to come together in a campaign that will help us to better share ways to reduce urban risk, and therefore save lifes," said Marcelo Ebrard, the mayor of Mexico City and chair of the World's Mayors Council on Climate Change.The campaign is targeting over 1,000 local government leaders worldwide to commit to sustainable development practices that increase their cities resilience to disasters. This includes: improving urban planning, infrastructure and building safety; reinforcing drainage systems to reduce floods, storm and health threats; installing early warning systems; conducting public preparedness drills; and taking measures to adapt to the increasing impact of climate change."Poverty and vulnerability are not a fatality, people are not irreversibly condemned. Our predecessors fought to leave us with a heritage and it is our responsibility to preserve and promote it for the next generation," said Cheikh Mamadou Abiboulaye Dieye in Bonn."It is fundamental that we as local leaders are conscious about the risks," said also Enrique Gomez, the mayor of Larreynaga-Malpaisillo in Nicaragua. "We learned a lot during the recent influenza epidemics and before that from Hurricane Mitch, floods and landslides. We learned we have to invest more time, more capacities to reduce our risks."Mayors and local leaders from a number of Asian cities, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Colombo and Kathmandu, are also expected to sign up to the UNISDR campaign at a launch event on 8 June in New Delhi, India sponsored by the Indian Ministry of Urban Development, the National Institute of Disaster Management and the SAARC Disaster Management Centre in New Delhi."We are very encouraged by the positive response to the new campaign and the number of cities that are already engaged worldwide," said Margareta Wahlstr, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. "A resilient city and its citizens can benefit greatly from the opportunities presented by urban risk reduction actions."The UNISDR Secretariat is the overall coordinator of the 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign. UN agencies including UN-HABITAT, WHO and UNICEF are key partners along with city associations and organizations, including the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and CityNet. NGO networks, grassroots organizations and other UNISDR partners are also engaged in the campaign.For more information on the 'Making Cities Resilient' Campaign, please visit www.unisdr.org/campaign and www.preventionweb.net
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1.China: Yushu quake donations near 7.53 bln yuan,Xinhua
ＲＶ＝72.4 2010/06/10 00:00
キーワード：yuan,donation,ministry,Zhang,dollar,May,worth,governor,cash,vice
Donations for quake relief in Yushu, northwest China had hit 7.529 billion yuan (1.1 billion U.S. dollars) in cash and material, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs Wednesday.The donations included nearly 6.8 billion yuan in cash and materials worth 730 million yuan, said a statement from the ministry.The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Qinghai Province's Yushu prefecture on April 14 had left 2,698 dead, with 270 people still missing, said Zhang Guangrong, vice governor of Qinghai, on May 31.
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1.China: Qinghai earthquake survivors face harsh winter,IFRC
ＲＶ＝143.8 2010/06/11 00:00
キーワード：child,yuan,reconstruction,school,receive,hospital,donation,snow,village,Kong
The day before yesterday, the nearby airport received a dusting of snow. At night, the mercury is hovering somewhere between zero and 4 degrees Celsius. Today, the daytime temperature may reach 17 or 20 degrees Celsius.But it's not the wild swings in temperature that worry the Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff; it's the prospect that many of the tens of thousands of homeless survivors of the earthquake in Yushu are likely to face a winter without adequate shelter. And on the windswept 4,000-metre-high Qinghai plateau, that means that temperatures are likely to plunge to minus 25 degrees Celsius.Facing the winter in a tent"The construction period is relatively short, because winter comes as early as October, so it will be a huge challenge for people here to complete their houses before then," says Enkas Chau, leader of a small team from the Hong Kong special administrative region branch of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), operating in the disaster area.It is also the remoteness of the location that makes the transportation of building materials and the associated costs a huge issue.The Red Cross Society of China – using more than 1.4 billion Chinese yuan (230 million Swiss francs, 204 million US dollars or 167 million euros) that were collected in donations – will play a key part in the reconstruction of Yushu, which the Chinese government plans to develop into a "plateau city for eco-tourism".In the meantime, all attention is focused on helping communities to be as comfortable as possible as the temperatures plummet.Transitional schools and hospitalsThe Hong Kong special administrative region branch is working to build three transitional schools and two transitional hospitals – one of each is completed with the others scheduled to be finished in the coming weeks.This is in addition to providing tents and family kits containing everyday items to help survivors cope in the initial aftermath of the earthquake, which is now reported to have left some 3,000 people dead or missing."In one of the villages, we found a widow who had no means or safe place to look after her three children, so she had to leave them with relatives. We are very glad that we were able to provide a tent for her so that she and her children could be reunited," says Enkas Chau.For China's disaster preparedness and response capacity, the Yushu earthquake marked an important step forward. For the first time, two provincial branches of the RCSC deployed their emergency response teams to provide water and sanitation. The two Chinese emergency response teams used equipment given to the Red Cross Society of China after it had been deployed by the Austrian Red Cross and British Red Cross in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.Opening a new chapterIncreasing the emergency response team capacity of the RCSC is a key component of the International Federation's capacity-building support to the National Society."We didn't know if we were going to be able to pump water at all, given the altitude and the conditions," says Peng Lifu, deputy head of the Hunan provincial branch, responsible for deploying the equipment that was handed over to the National Society by an Austrian–French Red Cross team.Fortunately, these initial concerns were proved unfounded when the RCSC team successfully provided safe drinking water for survivors of the Qinghai earthquake over a period of 22 days. This success really does signal a new chapter for the Red Cross Society of China and, of course, provides its engineers with a wealth of technical experience for the future.
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