Sichuan province

@SICHUAN: 'Lifeline road' for quake relief came...
The Asahi Shimbun
May 17, 2013
Earthquake survivors, holding placards made of cardboard, were seen skirmishing with hastily dispatched government officials around noon on April 22, two days after a...
PHOTOS: Sichuan quake leaves many in mountain town...
Collapsed homes on April 22 in Longmen, Lushan county, near the epicenter of the earthquake that rocked Sichuan province, China, two days earlier (Kentaro Koyama)
April 23, 2013
LONGMEN, China--In a small mountainous village, desperate residents lined a roadway holding signs and placards with entreaties to passing motorists that they had no food or...
Beijing tries to improve image through earthquake...
The vice principal of the junior high school in Lushan inside a damaged classroom on April 21 (Kentaro Koyama)
April 22, 2013
BEIJING--With more than 500 million people using Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, public criticism of the government’s response to the April 20 earthquake in Lushan...
@SHANGHAI: Death sentence puts spotlight on...
The Asahi Shimbun
March 02, 2013
News reports of a death sentence for a woman who was routinely subjected to domestic violence before killing her husband is causing an uproar in China.
China post-quake rebuilding fund funneled to...
Eyesore: The office building of the Santai county government in Sichuan province that has drawn so much criticism. The building, pictured May 12, was erected using funds for quake rebuilding. It is now undergoing remodeling of its interior. (Kentaro Koyama)
May 19, 2012
SICHUAN, China--Local authorities here are under fire for building a lavish government building with public funds earmarked for rebuilding from the 2008 Great Sichuan...
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