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CHINA EARTHQUAKE
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14 May 2008 Wed 01:33 am |
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We would like to extend our deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to those families who have been directly affected by the strong earthquake in China yesterday....
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14 May 2008 Wed 01:40 am |
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14 May 2008 Wed 03:01 am |
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Our hearts with you all
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14 May 2008 Wed 05:46 pm |
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50,000 people dead... and who says that the nature is nice and gentle.
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15 May 2008 Thu 10:59 am |
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our hearts with all em and we wish they will never have a tragic disaster like that
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15 May 2008 Thu 04:30 pm |
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Quoting girleegirl:
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17 May 2008 Sat 10:40 am |
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I got problem logging into TC for almost a week.
Thanks for your concern, friends of TC!
Though I am not in the earthquake affected regions, I felt so sad seeing the crying parents, limbs cutting off children, piles of dead bodies of school kids, exhausted saving teams...
The 512 earthquake is by far the most destructive in China, even surpassing the one in Tangshan in 1976. Now death toll is 23,000. A total of 50,000 is estimated. Many are still struggling to survive under the debris. 4 million buildings collapsed. Many towns were total lost with over 80% of the local residents were killed.
Billions of dollars are already donated to the relief organisations and Chinese government. Rescuing teams from Japan, Korea, Singapore and Russia keep coming to the affected regions and save lives from the debris. Peru designated May 19 to be the national mourning day for the tragedy in China...Thousands of chinese line up to donate blood beside giving out money and food. Hundreds of doctors and firemen in Hong Kong volunteer to go to Sichuang. All these are so touching.
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17 May 2008 Sat 10:48 am |
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Ninja, I can't even think what tragedy it was and what amount of means and time will be needed to bring things back to normal. Nothing will bring those people back, though.
Here's a candle for them.
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17 May 2008 Sat 11:36 am |
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Quoting ninja: I got problem logging into TC for almost a week.
Thanks for your concern, friends of TC!
Though I am not in the earthquake affected regions, I felt so sad seeing the crying parents, limbs cutted children, piles of dead bodies of school kids, exhausted saving teams...
The 512 earthquake is by far the most destructive in China, even surpassing the one in Tangshan in 1976. Now death toll is 23,000. A total of 50,000 is estimated. Many are still struggling to survive under the debris. 4 million buildings collapsed. Many towns were total lost with over 80% of the local residents were killed.
Billions of dollars are already donated to the relief organisations and Chinese government. Rescuing teams from Japan, Korea, Singapore and Russia keep coming to the affected regions and save lives from the debris. Peru designated May 19 to be the national mourning day for the tragedy in China...Thousands of chinese line up to donate blood beside giving out money and food. Hundreds of doctors and firemen in Hong Kong volunteer to go to Sichuang. All these are so touching.
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Thank you Ninja for letting us know how you are. Take care please
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17 May 2008 Sat 07:12 pm |
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There have been up to Richter grade 6.8 aftershocks of the big earthquake!
A big dam is going to be destroyed and so flooding is imminent...
Oh, pray for this!
By the way, when talking about overseas rescuing teams going to China and Burmese government's refusal of these, I wonder if the US or EU governments have planned to send rescue teams to China. There are of course many relief NGOs racing with time to rescue people there, but how about the governments? As far as I know the US government has donated $500,000 dollars to the tragic province of China... Just know that one businessman of HK donated 13 million!
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