Wuhan, China News Archives

“I asked the rescuers to start from the ones who were easier to recover than my son”

"My son has always considered me a hero," policeman Li Guolin told Wuhan Evening News yesterday. via China Daily

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“The problem now is this kind of relationship is still quite vague”

First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely.

As bodies are pulled from the wreckage of Monday's quake, Chinese online chat rooms and blogs are buzzing with a question: Why didn't these natural signs alert the government that a disaster was coming?

'If the seismological bureau were professional enough they could have predicted the earthquake ten days earlier, when several thousand cubic meters of water disappeared within an hour in Hubei, but the bureau there dismissed it,' one commentator wrote. Read more

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A batch of electrify-driven light trucks were put into trial operation on May 6, in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province. via People's Daily Online

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“All the buildings are swaying back and forth”

Four children died in a suburb of southwest China's Chongqing municipality when the earthquake toppled two primary schools, Xinhua news agency said. via Globe and Mail

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TWO passengers were injured when a China Eastern Airlines aircraft was evacuated yesterday in Beijing after a fire alarm went off, the carrier said. via Shanghai Daily

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Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. via The Washington Post

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AFP. PARIS. RESEARCHERS in China have pinpointed an elusive gene that plays a linchpin role in determining the harvest potential of rice, according to a study released yesterday by the journal Nature Genetics. via The Herald

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“We are pleased to file the amendment which takes us one step further to completing our S-1 registration.”

WUHAN, Hubei, China, May 6, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Benda Pharmaceutical, Inc. via Med Ad News

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“This exhibition should be put on in foreign countries, instead of just in China, so that people around the world will have a better understanding of Tibet”

An exhibition in Beijing on Tibet's past and present has drawn 12,700 visitors since it opened, according to organizers. via People's Daily Online

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Wuhan General , a leading manufacturer of industrial blowers and turbines, today announced the appointment of Haiming Liu as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective immediately. via TechWeb.com

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“Authorities in Anhui and Fuyang are doing utmost to treat the children and strengthen disease control”

A mass intestinal virus infection in the eastern Chinese city of Fuyang, Anhui Province has killed another child, bringing the death toll to 21, a local health official said on Friday. via VietNamNet

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Championship Gaming Series announced today the appointment of three new General Managers for the PanAsia Region as the league prepares for its PanAsia Final in Wuhan, China. via Xbox99

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