Comments on: Doctors Without Borders Providing Aid in Myanmar and China

By: sky

sky — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:28:54 +0000

China suggests building defects led to quake deaths. (IHT)

By: sky

sky — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:52:41 +0000

Mrs Bush Visits Mae Lah Refugee Camp. (irrawaddy)

By: sky

sky — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:02:00 +0000

China presses grieving parents to take hush money on quake. (IHT)

By: sky

sky — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:08:54 +0000

The Irrawaddy Delta Redux. (irrawaddy)
Laputta ’s situation is appalling and vastly different from government accounts. ..

By: sky

sky — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:22:05 +0000

China quiets a voice for quake victims. (IHT)

By: sky

sky — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:45:22 +0000

Surprise Wimbledon semi-finalist Zheng Jie in charity pledge.
Zheng Jie has pledged to donate the prize money she earns from this year’s Championships to victims of the Chinese earthquake.

Zheng only got into the draw because she was given a wild card, but she has justified that by beating four seeds on her way to setting up a semi-final clash with Serena Williams.

By: sky

sky — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:28:05 +0000

In Myanmar, surprising recovery. (IHT)
Resourceful villagers and private aid averted starvation and rise of disease.

By: sky

sky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:52:02 +0000

A Chinese school, shored up by its principal, survived where others fell. (IHT)
Given that about 10,000 other children were crushed in their classrooms during the devastating quake on May 12, the survival of so many students in Sangzao counts as a minor miracle.

Students and parents credit that to “Angel Ye.” (school principal)

Nervous about the shoddiness of the school building, Ye scraped together more than 400,000 yuan, or about $60,000, over three years to renovate. He had workers widen concrete pillars and insert iron rods into them. He demanded stronger balcony railings. He demolished a bathroom that had been weakened by water.

Ye’s tale sheds light on the lax building codes in this mountainous corner of Sichuan Province and what might have been done to address well-known shortcomings. ..

By: sky

sky — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:43:26 +0000

Yao to donate money, create foundation to aid earthquake victims. (ESPN)
Yao Ming said he will donate $2 million and create a foundation to rebuild Chinese schools devastated by last month’s earthquake in his home country. ..

By: sky

sky — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:51:37 +0000

Quake lake water surges through cities. (CNN)
The mammoth effort to drain Tangjiashan lake — where floodwaters behind a landslide had threatened to burst through the wall of rubble to submerge low-lying towns — was declared a success by officials who said the crisis was over.