Gempa Bumi di China - Update: Gempa Bumi Lagi Di Sichuan 5.6 richter!!

Jiman

159 Aftershocks Above Magnitude 4 Monitored In Epicenter After Major Earthquake
BERNAMA - 20 Mei, 2008 18:01 PM

BEIJING, May 20 (Bernama) -- As of midday Tuesday, 159 aftershocks measuring above 4 on the Richter scale had been monitored in southwestern Sichuan Province, Xinhua news agency quoted the China Seismological Bureau as saying here on Tuesday.

Among them, 26 aftershocks measured above magnitude 5, 4 above magnitude 6, says the Bureau.

A devastating earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale rocked southwest China on May 12, leading to the death of more than 34,000 people.

Jiman

Midnight Panic In Chengdu Over Big Tremor Warning
BERNAMA - 20 Mei, 2008 14:19 PM

CHENGDU, May 20 (Bernama) - After a week, a man was pulled out alive under the debris of a flattened power plant in Wenchuan shortly after midnight Monday, two days after he was discovered and kept alive by glucose fed to him with a straw, state media reported.

Rescuers worked for 30 hours to free 31-year-old Ma Yuan Jiang, a hydro power plant executive, nearly 179 hours after the devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake that hit southwestern Sichuan province.

Also early Tuesday, tens of thousands of residents panicked and left their home for the streets in Sichuan's capital Chengdu, after local radio and television repeatedly warned that another powerful tremor will hit the region in the wake of the devastation left by the 8.0 quake a week ago in the province.

Young and old, carrying blankets and bedding, rushed to the Sichuan University which has one of the largest open space in the city, and there were scenes of chaos outside shops as people rushed to buy makeshift tents.

The campus resembled a tent city with people joining many others who had encamped themselves at the university since the May 12 quake that hit Wenchuan county about 150km from the provincial capital.

Cars and vans jammed the streets to head for the outskirts of the city, away from the shadow of high-rise buildings.

Those who did not join the exodus slept in cars and buses parked along road kerbs and even on road pavements.

The local seismological bureau announced late Monday night that an aftershock of between six to seven magnitude was likely to hit Wenchuan again between Monday and Tuesday.

Xinhua News Agency said residents in outer districts and counties also fled their homes after the warning.

Some villagers in Tongzi county in Zunyi saw massive migration of frogs and toads on Monday night and took that as a sign of an impending quake, Zunyi's Vice Mayor Zeng Yongtao told Xinhua.

Up to 50,000 are feared dead and the official death toll surpassed 34,000 on Monday and nearly 250,000 are injured.

China on Monday appealed for more tents from the international community to shelter 4.8 million left homeless.

The nation is cloaked in its second day of official mourning. China declared a three-day mourning period, a week after the disaster.

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Lelaki terselamat gempa

CHENGDU: Pasukan penyelamat membawa keluar seorang lelaki berusia 31 tahun dengan selamat selepas beliau terperangkap lebih seminggu dalam sebuah loji kuasa yang musnah berhampiran pusat gempa berikutan gempa bumi terbesar di China.

Agensi berita Xinhua berkata Ma Yuanjiang diselamatkan dari runtuhan di Loji Hidrokuasa Teluk Yingxiu. Beliau adalah seorang pengarah loji terbabit tetapi agensi itu tidak menyebut sejauh mana serius kecederaan mangsa.

Ia adalah kes kedua membabitkan mangsa yang dijumpai masih selamat selepas seminggu gempa bumi yang melanda wilayah Sichuan 12 Mei lalu.

Xinhua juga melaporkan bahawa Peng Guohua, seorang pelombong berada dalam keadaan stabil selepas terperangkap selama 170 jam dalam runtuhan akibat gempa yang sama.

Pasukan penyelamat juga meneruskan usaha mencari mayat pada hari kedua selepas kerajaan China mengumumkan tempoh berkabung kebangsaan selama tiga hari.

Negara itu memberikan penghormatan luar biasa kelmarin kepada lebih 40,000 penduduk yang terbunuh dalam gempa bumi terkuat itu.

Beribu-ribu penduduk yang terselamat dalam kejadian gempa bumi itu masih lagi bimbang berulangnya gempa dan ramai daripada mereka mengambil tindakan untuk tidur dalam kereta atau di tempat terbuka.

Mereka memenuhi jalan raya di wilayah Sichuan selepas kerajaan mengeluarkan satu amaran mengenai gempa susulan, semalam.

Satu kenyataan Biro Seismologi Kebangsaan dibacakan melalui televisyen memberi amaran bahawa ada kemungkinan berlaku gegaran susulan berukuran 6 hingga 7 skala Richter. Gegaran sekuat itu mampu menyebabkan kemusnahan besar.

Berikutan itu, penduduk di Chengdu bertindak menaiki kereta dan memandu ke timur jauh dari kawasan zon gempa sehingga ke timur laut. Di persimpangan keluar dari bandar berkenaan ramai penduduk dilihat tidur di situ, manakala kereta mereka diletakkan di sepanjang jalan sehingga ke lebuh raya dengan kebanyakan pemandu tidur di luar kenderaan mereka.

Di Mianyang yang berhampiran dengan zon gempa, petugas sebuah hospital memindahkan pesakitnya ke satu kawasan dataran di luar sebuah stesen kereta api dengan membawa katil, peralatan perubatan dan khemah. - AP

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Miracle rescues in China quake as death toll tops 40,000
BERNAMA - 21 Mei, 2008 09:09 AM

Despite the tale of miracle survivors that have surfaced on Tuesday,
time has all but run out for the many thousands still trapped beneath the rubble of China's earthquake.
But for the five million people left homeless by the disaster, many difficult years lie ahead.

CHENGDU, China (AFP) - A woman who survived on rainwater and a man fed via a straw were Tuesday pulled out of the rubble eight days after China's earthquake but hopes faded for others as the death toll topped 40,000.

Amid fears of new aftershocks among a traumatised population, Beijing put out a fresh urgent appeal for tents as foreign medical teams began to arrive in southwestern Sichuan province.

Despite the overwhelming odds against finding any more survivors under the rubble, rescue workers Tuesday saved a 60-year-old woman, Wang Youqun, nearly 200 hours after the earthquake, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

Wang was in a temple in the town of Pengzhou when the earthquake, 8.0 on the Richter scale, hit on May 12. She fell into a coma but eventually crept out and was found in rubble on Tuesday, it said. She survived by drinking rainwater, Xinhua said. Hong Kong-based Phoenix television said she was in a stable condition.

In another case Tuesday, rescuers saved Ma Yuanjiang after a 30-hour dig that included chiselling through 10 slabs of cement, Xinhua said. The team fed the 31-year-old sugary water through a straw as they broke through the rubble of a power plant where he was an executive, Xinhua said. Ma was able to speak, eat and drink small amounts as he was rushed to hospital but his left forearm had to be amputated, it said.

Another man, Peng Guohua, was saved Monday in a lime mine after he drank his own urine to survive, according to state press.

Such improbable survival stories have inspired many Chinese, who on Monday came to an unprecedented three-minute standstill to honour the victims of the earthquake. But the number of rescues has tapered off, and the frantic pace of searching for survivors in the endless rubble has slowed, as the reality sets in that finding any more people alive after so long is almost impossible.

The government said on Tuesday that the death toll from the earthquake had risen to 40,075. A cabinet spokesman said hours earlier the number of dead and missing was nearly 66,000.

During a meeting with his cabinet, Premier Wen Jiabao ordered 900,000 tents to be sent to the disaster area over the next month and up to one million makeshift structures by August.

"We are setting up relocation and resettlement centres for the affected people. That is why we most need tents in large quantities," Jiang Li, vice minister of civil affairs, told reporters.

The earthquake has triggered an outpouring of sympathy around the world, with both US President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy personally visiting Chinese embassies to sign condolence books.

But international criticism started to build over China's decision to let in foreign rescuers only three days after the earthquake.

"There was a delay in the decision-making. It would have been better if the decision was quicker," Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said in Tokyo.

A Japanese team, the first official foreign team on the scene, was heading home without finding any survivors, although another Japanese unit left Japan Tuesday to provide medical relief.

Across southwestern China, tens of thousands of residents ran for safety early Tuesday over fears of another earthquake, carrying bedding, chairs, clothes and other possessions. "Anyone who says he is not afraid is just kidding," said Zhu Yuejin, a 23-year-old saleswoman who spent the night in a car.

A warning on the Sichuan government website, quoting seismological authorities, said that a strong aftershock of 6.0 to 7.0 magnitude would strike the same area ravaged by last week's massive tremor. But Du Jianguo, a Beijing-based researcher with China's Institute of Earthquake Science, said it was impossible to predict aftershocks so accurately. " I don't know who made such a forecast, but personally I don't believe it," he told AFP.

Fuelling fears among the superstitious, residents of the southern city of Zunyi reported a massive migration of frogs and toads, which also covered Sichuan towns days before the May 12 earthquake, according to state media.

China has been hit by more than 150 aftershocks measuring 4.0 or higher on the Richter scale since the initial tremor, including one early Tuesday that measured 5.0. That tremor appeared to cause further damage in the quake zone, which spans 100,000 square kilometres (40,000 square miles) of mountainous Sichuan, an area roughly three times the size of Belgium.

The warning of the powerful aftershock set off nerves on China's stock markets , contributing to a nearly 4.5 percent drop in share prices, dealers said.

The central government announced a daily 10 yuan (1.43 dollar) allowance for quake victims, lasting three months, and also ordered tax relief and loan extensions to be applied in the disaster zone.

Jiman

Banyak sekolah dibuka semula
UTUSAN MALAYSIA

CHENGDU, China 21 Mei – Lebih banyak sekolah telah mula dibuka semula mulai semalam di Sichuan, wilayah yang paling teruk terjejas dalam gempa bumi pada 12 Mei lalu.

Di pusat sukan Qingyang di daerah Chengdu, kelihatan pelajar Gao Luwei, 9, bermain bersama rakan-rakannya selepas menghadiri kelas di khemah yang dijadikan kelas sementara.

“Saya tidak tahu berapa lama kami akan berada di sini, tetapi saya harap kami akan hanya berada di sini sementara,” kata Gao, yang sekolahnya di bandar peranginan Dujiangyan ranap dalam gempa yang telah mengorbankan lebih 40,000 orang itu, manakala 10,000 lagi dipercayai masih terperangkap.

Deng Yaping, pemenang empat pingat emas Sukan Olimpik dalam acara ping pong dan penganjur Sukan Olimpik Beijing, kelihatan bercakap kepada pelajar di bilik darjah dalam khemah biru di Mianyang, ke utara Chengdu, ibu negara wilayah itu, dalam satu siaran televisyen.

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Larian obor Sukan Olimpik disambung
UTUSAN MALAYSIA

SHANGHAI 21 Mei - Larian obor Sukan Olimpik diteruskan di China esok selepas tamat tempoh berkabung selama tiga hari memperingati mangsa gempa bumi di wilayah Sichuan.

Larian tersebut akan disambung semula di sebuah pelabuhan kontena di bandar Ningbo, timur negara ini.

Obor tersebut akan dibawa merentasi bandar pelabuhan itu dan menyeberangi jambatan Teluk Hangzhou ke Jiaxing.

Lewat esok, obor berkenaan akan dibawa dengan kenderaan ke Shanghai, pusat perdagangan negara ini.

Setakat ini, larian itu telah berlangsung dengan lancar di tanah besar China, tanpa gangguan protes antikerajaan di Tibet dan hak asasi manusia semasa perjalanan obor di beberapa negara asing.

Penganjur bagaimanapun mahu mengurangkan kemeriahan di sekitar larian itu berikutan gempa bumi kuat yang melanda wilayah Sichuan pada 12 Mei lalu yang mengakibatkan lebih 40,000 orang maut dan jutaan lagi hilang tempat tinggal.

Larian tersebut ditangguhkan di Hangzhou, sebuah bandar indah ke barat Ningbo.

Jiman

Hujan lebat ancam empangan di kawasan gempa
UTUSAN MALAYSIA

Pasukan penyelamat mengusung seorang lelaki yang berjaya diselamatkan
daripada runtuhan bangunan setelah terperangkap lebih 196 jam
di bandar Hongbai, Shifang di Mianyang semalam.

CHENGDU 21 Mei - Hujan lebat di kawasan gunung- ganang di wilayah Sichuan, barat laut China hari ini dijangka menjejaskan operasi bantuan dan menimbulkan ancaman kepada empangan di wilayah yang dilanda gempa bumi itu.

Perdana Menteri, Wen Jiabao mengarahkan Kementerian Sumber Air menghantar pakar untuk memeriksa empangan dan takungan air di kawasan gempa memandangkan hujan lebat diramalkan berlaku dalam tempoh 48 jam akan datang.

Beribu-ribu gegaran susulan dan ramalan mengenai hujan menyukarkan lagi usaha tentera, kerajaan dan pekerja bantuan untuk menghantar bekalan makanan dan minuman, selain memastikan berjuta-juta mangsa mempunyai tempat berlindung.

Khemah dan sengkuap merupakan antara keperluan paling mendesak bagi lebih 110,000 penyelamat tentera dan awam.

Pegawai berkata, China memerlukan tiga juta khemah untuk menempatkan kira-kira lima juta mangsa yang hilang tempat tinggal ekoran gempa bumi berukuran 7.9 pada skala Richter pada 12 Mei lalu.

"Kami benar-benar kekurangan khemah dan berharap wilayah dan negara lain yang ingin membantu kami boleh menyumbangkannya," kata Timbalan Gabenor Wilayah, Li Chengyun semalam.

Kawasan bencana terutamanya di Sichuan telah menerima 280,000 khemah dan kilang beroperasi 24 jam untuk menyiapkan 700,000 khemah lagi, katanya.

Ramai penduduk di ibu kota wilayah, Chengdu bermalam di dalam khemah kerana bimbang ancaman bangunan runtuh.

Di SHIFANG, seorang wanita berjaya diselamatkan dari sebuah terowong loji janakuasa hidro, lapor agensi berita Xinhua, hari ini.

Zeng Changhui dilaporkan terperangkap dalam terowong itu sejak gempa bumi melanda 12 Mei lalu.

Mangsa yang mengalami kecederaan di rusuk, lengan kanan dan belakang, telah diterbangkan ke sebuah hospital di pekan Hongbai.

Sementara itu, kerajaan China mengumumkan peruntukan lebih AS$13 bilion (RM41.88 bilion) bagi operasi bantuan dan pembinaan semula kawasan bencana.

Wen Jiabao selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat Kabinet mengumumkan, sebanyak 25 bilion yuan (RM11.60 bilion) diperuntukan untuk operasi bantuan, sementara 70 bilion yuan lagi bagi pembinaan semula kawasan terjejas.

Jiman

10 tahun untuk pulihkan Sichuan
KOSMO

PEKERJA binaan mendirikan khemah penginapan sementara
untuk mangsa gempa bumi yang kehilangan rumah di Sichuan semalam.

BEIJING - Kerajaan China memerlukan tempoh 10 tahun untuk memulihkan kawasan terjejas akibat gempa bumi yang kini sudah meragut 41,353 nyawa, kata organisasi bantuan antarabangsa World Visison.

"Kita akan melihat satu perubahan dalaman yang sangat besar," kata seorang jurucakap organisasi itu, Jeffrey Wright.

"China memerlukan lima atau sehingga 10 tahun untuk benar-benar pulih daripada bencana ini," ujarnya.

Perdana Menteri China, Wen Jiabao dalam laman web kerajaan berkata, negara itu menghadapi cabaran besar untuk memulihkan susunan sosiol dan pengeluaran di kawasan terjejas.

"Gempa bumi itu mengakibatkan ekonomi tempatan terjejas teruk sekali gus menambah faktor tidak menentu dalam keseluruhan prestasi ekonomi China," ujarnya.

Beijing juga mengumumkan bahawa ia akan membelanjakan lebih AS$13 bilion (RM41.87 bilion) untuk bantuan kemanusiaan dan pembangunan semula di wilayah itu.

Jiabao juga mengarahkan kawalan selama 24 jam di beberapa buah empangan yang mengalami kerosakan selepas gempa bumi berukuran 7.9 pada skala Richter itu melanda wilayah Sichuan pada 12 Mei lalu.

Beliau juga mengarahkan usaha menempatkan lebih 12 juta mangsa ke pusat perlindungan dipercepatkan ketika hujan lebat dan gegaran susulan mungkin mencetuskan tanah runtuh.

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Thursday May 22, 2008
WITNESS - At quake epicentre, they fed me noodles
By Emma Graham-Harrison


YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - An aftershock jolted me awake with the thuds of collapsing buildings. We were sleeping in a tent far from the tottering remains of Yingxiu but still, it was a long time before my heart stopped racing.

Reuters journalist
Emma Graham-Harrison
is pictured in front of a
map of China at the Reuters
office in Beijing May 22, 2008.

A stream of dirty, red-eyed refugees had staggered along the river bank the previous evening as, after more than eight hours of walking and hitch-hiking along a buckled, broken road, we made it to the epicentre of China's deadliest quake in decades.

Someone who was leaving handed me a spare gauze square as a face mask: I gratefully tied it over my mouth and nose.

It was meant as a barrier against disease, asbestos from collapsed buildings and the smell of rotting corpses, in a city where officials say nearly 80 percent of residents may have died.

Helicopters roared in and out, flinging dust over the wounded who waited under dirty quilts with mangled arms and legs, to be carried away from the wreckage of their lives and families.

Behind them all, where Yingxiu once stood, were snarled piles of concrete and metal, rows of the dead lying in the streets just metres from makeshift refugee camps, and what looked like a grotesque experiment in engineering.

Fewer than half the town's buildings were standing and almost none was upright. Some leaned forward or back, others tipped at 45 degrees to the ground, supported by piles of rubble, their doors and windows opening to the sky.

DISINFECTANT

I went looking for the primary school, which residents said collapsed like tens of others in the quake zone.

Finding anything is difficult in a town stripped of its buildings and with streets buried in rubble. When survivors pointed vaguely "over there", it left me no clearer but with no landmarks, I wasn't sure what more to ask.

Eventually I found someone to guide me, who -- without my asking -- pointed out trapped corpses in ruins along the way. I wondered if he had led other journalists there.

Did he find us ghoulish, flocking to the scene to unearth tragedies while others uncovered survivors?

In the school courtyard, bodies were lined up in untidy rows beside the national flagpole. What was left of Yingxiu's government had decided there was nowhere safe to bury the bodies and banned parents from taking them away.

Most were covered, but two small feet were left sticking out from beneath one tarpaulin.

I tried to count the dead. Two soldiers arrived with the spraying kits that small-scale Chinese farmers use to apply pesticide to their crops and started walking up and down, showering the small bodies with disinfectant.

As it dripped slowly down the soles of the young boy's feet, I found I was crying and turned away in shame from the grieving mothers nearby.

My normal world was less than 40 km away, but it seemed impossibly distant.

A BOWL OF NOODLES

I had come with three Chinese photographers from Dujiangyan. It had been badly hit but was still accessible by road and was bustling with rescue efforts as cash, aid and experts poured in.

Still, the scale of the disaster was so vast that even there I had watched desperate searchers, unable to find firefighters or soldiers to help, bury a neighbour's family deeper in debris as they tried to reach their own loved ones.

So I wanted to know what help was reaching those at the mountainous, remote epicentre. But as the damaged road to Yingxiu snaked out of mobile phone coverage, through tunnels and over precipitous landslides, I wondered if I was wise to come.

We walked for hours under a harsh sun while injured and shaken refugees streamed in the opposite direction, towards shelter and safety. The only glimmer of comfort was the generosity and courage of the survivors.

Some ferried the weak and injured on motorbikes down still-passable stretches of road; one farmer spent her day boiling clean water for anyone who needed it.

In Yingxiu, people who had lost everything kept trying to press food and water on me. One old woman mourning her foster daughter had -- unbeknown to me -- told her husband to prepare me a bowl of noodles while I was interviewing her.

When he brought it over, I tried hard to refuse. Guilt about eating refugees' food was the last emotion I wanted to add to the mix that often threatened to engulf me.

But they were so insistent -- and worried I was rejecting the food because I thought it was dirty -- I felt I had no choice.

I wolfed the noodles down, embarrassed but grateful after 24 hours of biscuits and peanuts. I gave them some money in return, although there was nothing to buy and no one to buy it from.

dexa

80,000 terbunuh, hilang akibat gempa di China

BEIJING: Lebih 80,000 orang disahkan maut atau hilang selepas gempa bumi terburuk China dalam tempoh sedekad, manakala 4,000 kanak-kanak yatim piatu, kata kerajaan semalam.

Sebelum ini, pihak berkuasa menjangka angka kematian akhir melebihi 50,000 orang.

Angka Pejabat Maklumat Majlis Negeri menunjukkan jumlah yang maut kini melebihi 51,000 orang, meningkat 10,000 berbanding jumlah sebelumnya. Lebih 29,000 penduduk masih hilang.

Selain itu, 288,000 orang cedera akibat gempa pada kekuatan 7.9 skala Richter di barat daya China 12 Mei lalu.

China juga meminta masyarakat antarabangsa menghantar 3.3 juta khemah untuk membantu mangsa gempa.

Beratus gempa susulan, salji tebal di kawasan pergunungan berhampiran dengan pusat gempa dan ramalan hujan lebat menambah kesukaran kepada pihak tentera, kerajaan dan petugas persendirian yang cuba menghantar bantuan dan menyediakan perlindungan.

Jiman

Originally posted by dexa at 22-5-2008 08:06 AM

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di hantar ke zoo di wilayah sichuan... untuk Pandas -

yg lebih latest :

ANGGOTA tentera mengangkat sangkar beruang panda
untuk dipindahkan dari Pusat Pemuliharaan dan Penyelidikan Panda di Wolong
kerana kedudukannya kira-kira 30 kilometer dari pusat gempa bumi di Wilayah Sichuan.
- Foto AFP

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Originally posted by Jiman at 23-5-2008 02:32 PM


yg lebih latest :



ANGGOTA tentera mengangkat sangkar beruang panda
untuk dipindahkan dari Pusat Pemuliharaan dan Penyelidikan Panda ...

ANGGOTA tentera mengangkat sangkar beruang
panda untuk dipindahkan dari Pusat Pemuliharaan
dan Penyelidikan Panda di Wolong kerana kedudukannya
kira-kira 30 kilometer dari pusat gempa bumi di Wilayah
Sichuan. - Foto AFP

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Gempa: Lebih 4,000 kanak-kanak China jadi yatim piatu

PENDUDUK menunggu bantuan makanan di luar Stadium Jiuzhou di Mianyang, Sichuan, semalam. - AP

MIANYANG 22 Mei - Lebih 4,000 kanak- kanak dianggarkan menjadi yatim piatu berikutan gempa yang melanda barat daya China minggu lepas.

Timbalan Pengarah Hal-Ehwal Awam di wilayah Sichuan, Chen Kefu ketika mengumumkan perkara itu semalam bagaimanapun berkata, usaha memastikan bilangan sebenar anak yatim akan mengambil masa.

Ini kerana ramai mangsa yang masih hilang dan kehilangan tempat tinggal.

Gempa bumi 12 Mei itu menyebabkan lebih 51,000 orang terkorban dan lima juta lagi hilang tempat tinggal.

Beribu-ribu penduduk negara ini menelefon pejabat kerajaan dan menyiarkan rayuan di Internet untuk mengambil anak angkat dari kalangan anak yatim berikutan gempa itu.

"Setiap hari Kementerian saya menerima ratusan panggilan," kata Timbalan Menteri Hal-Ehwal Awam, Jiang Li, hari ini.
Bencana itu juga menyebabkan ramai ibu bapa kehilangan anak, kebanyakannya terbunuh apabila bangunan sekolah runtuh.

Namun begitu pegawai berkata, proses pengambilan anak angkat tidak akan bermula sehinggalah keadaan sudah terkawal di kawasan dilanda gempa.

Buat sementara waktu kerajaan tempatan akan menjaga kebajikan anak-anak yatim itu.

"Kami menerima banyak pertanyaan mengenai pengambilan anak angkat tetapi buat masa ini masih terlalu awal kerana kami masih berada pada peringkat mencari dan menyelamat," kata Wang Jung dari Yayasan Pembasmian Kemiskinan China.

Pegawai sedang bertungkus-lumus untuk menyatukan semula kanak-kanak dengan anggota keluarga.

Akhbar menyiarkan gambar dan nama kanak-kanak dan meminta bantuan orang ramai untuk menyatukan mereka dengan waris.

Poster yang memaparkan maklumat sama turut ditampalkan di stadium sukan.

China ialah sumber utama kanak-kanak asing yang diambil sebagai anak angkat oleh pasangan di Amerika Syarikat (AS).

Malah banyak pasangan AS telah pun menghubungi agensi anak angkat mengenai anak-anak yatim piatu akibat gempa .
Namun demikian kerajaan China dipercayai akan memberi keutamaan kepada pasangan rakyat tempatan.
- AP

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Bekas kediaman Bruce Lee dilelong bantu mangsa gempa

HONG KONG 22 Mei - Kediaman yang pernah didiami oleh bintang filem kung fu, Bruce Lee dilapor akan dijual bagi membantu mangsa gempa bumi di China.

Tokoh dermawan, Yu Pang-lin merancang untuk menjual lima kediaman termasuk rumah lama Lee di daerah Kowloon Tong dan mendermakan hasil jualan kepada dana bantuan bencana itu, lapor akhbar South China Morning Post hari ini.

Lee mendiami rumah dua tingkat itu pada 1960-an dan 1970-an.

Bangunan tersebut kemudiannya dijadikan sebuah motel untuk pasangan kekasih memadu cinta, lapor akhbar Apple Daily.

Hartanah tersebut dianggarkan bernilai 100 juta dolar Hong Kong (RM41 juta).

Lee yang meninggal dunia pada usia 32 tahun di wilayah ini pada 1973 akibat bengkak otak dilahirkan di San Francisco tetapi membesar dan mencipta nama sebagai pelakon di Hong Kong.

Bintang filem aksi itu dikenali kerana memainkan watak yang mempertahankan kaum Cina dan golongan pekerja daripada penindasan.

- AP

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Friday May 23, 2008
Rains threaten China quake lake disaster
By Lucy Hornby
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - The onset of the rainy season threatens to swell dangerous "quake lakes" and compound the difficulties of reconstruction after China's worst earthquake in decades.

A resident carries belongings after digging them out from the ruins of collapsed houses in earthquake-hit Shifang, Sichuan province May 22, 2008. (REUTERS/Joe Chan)

The 7.9 magnitude tremor of May 12 and thousands of aftershocks changed the landscape of northern Sichuan province forever, blocking rivers, weakening mountain walls and creating unstable lakes where there was once dry land.

The death toll had passed 55,000, with almost 25,000 missing and more than 281,000 injured, Sichuan vice governor Li Chengyun said on Friday as fears grew that disease, rain and aftershocks could bring yet more disaster to the southwestern province.

He said this was a "peak period for outbreaks of diseases", describing the situation as very grim, but was optimistic about short-term relief.

"We will strive to provide safe, economical and convenient temporary housing for 98 percent of the residents within the next month," Li told a Beijing news conference, adding that it would take three years to rebuild "new villages, towns and cities".

A landslide triggered by an aftershock in Wenchuan county, at the epicentre, on Thursday crushed a house, killing two people, state media said on Friday.

In Chengdu, some volunteer relief convoys reported being held up by hungry residents, one at gunpoint. There were reports of two people being beheaded by helicopter blades, one at the Wolong panda reserve, sources in Sichuan and local reporters said.

Premier Wen Jiabao, making his second visit to the disaster zone, visited hospitals and tents sheltering quake refugees on Friday in Beichuan county, one of the worst-hit areas.

In a temporary shelter for the Beichuan Middle School, which lost up to 1,000 students and teachers in the quake, Wen tried to cheer up children, writing a line on the blackboard reading "Deep distress resurrects a nation".

Wen, a trained geologist, had earlier ordered rescue workers to eliminate the danger of the lakes "through engineering means" while swiftly evacuating people in their path.

In Hongguang, in northeastern Sichuan, the earthquake caused both sides of a valley to slide, burying three villages and 900 people. The Qingzhu River is trapped behind.

"The mountains merged," said Gao Xiao, who barely escaped a landslide that roared past her house.
The Qingzhu landslides have formed five lakes, the biggest of which is almost 30 metres (100 feet) deep. A flood control team monitors the natural dams constantly, for fear they will burst and unleash a wall of water on the valley below.

The more than 30 barrier lakes in the quake were safe for the moment and residents under threat had been evacuating, Zhu Bing, a Sichuan water resources official, told the news conference.

"There is a possibility of (the dam) collapsing entirely in the case of a strong aftershock or rainstorm," Zhu said of the Tangjiashan barrier lake in Beichuan which Wen toured on Thursday.

Heavy rain is forecast, making life even more difficult for rescuers, relief workers and the 5.48 million either living in tents or under makeshift cover as their mourn their dead.

Sichuan has been on high alert for epidemics, said vice governor Li. "The most-needed items remain tents and pre-fabricated housing units," he said. "We also need hygiene equipment such as street-cleaning and water-spraying vehicles."

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Warga emas terperangkap di gunung berjaya diselamatkan
UTUSAN MALAYSIA

Dua buah bas melalui jalan raya yang sempit akibat tanan runtuh
di Sichuan berikutan gempa bumi di wilayah tengah China itu.
– AFP

BEIJING 23 Mei – Pasukan penyelamat hari ini berjaya menyelamatkan sepasang warga emas yang terperangkap di puncak gunung selama 11 hari sejak gempa bumi melanda China.

Agensi berita Xinhua melaporkan, pasangan itu yang berusia 92 dan 84 tahun ditemui terperangkap dalam runtuhan penginapan mereka di puncak Gunung Qingheng yang dikaitkan dengan penganut ajaran Taoist di barat daya Sichuan.

Lapor Xinhua lagi, Tian Yuenqing dan Cao Shuyun yang dijumpai oleh pasukan polis semalam, telah dibawa turun dari puncak gunung berkenaan dengan menggunakan pengusung.

Menurut laporan itu, pihak berkuasa telah membina sebuah khemah di kaki gunung itu bagi kemudahan pasangan tersebut, selain memberi mereka tilam, makanan, air serta lain-lain barangan keperluan.

Ketika ini, pasukan penyelamat memberi fokus kepada usaha mencegah penyakit di kalangan lima juta penduduk yang kehilangan tempat tinggal, selain berusaha mengagihkan bantuan kepada mangsa di kawasan pedalaman.

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11 hari.. atok & nenek umur 92 & 84 tahun yg GAGAH!

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Pembangunan semula tiga tahun


SEORANG wanita membawa sayur-sayuran
memasuki rumahnya yang musnah di kampung
Si Wen Jai, wilayah Sichuan semalam

PENGZHOU - Pembinaan semula bangunan-bangunan yang roboh dan beberapa jalan retak di wilayah Sichuan akibat gempa bumi akan mengambil masa sekurang-kurangnya tiga tahun, kata kerajaan China semalam.

Kabinet China mengesahkan jumlah kematian meningkat kepada 55,740 orang manakala 24,960 lagi hilang selepas gempa bumi yang melanda wilayah berkenaan pada 12 Mei lalu.

Timbalan Pengarah Biro Sumber Air Sichuan, Zhu Bing berkata, hampir tiga dozen tasik baru terbentuk di Sichuan selepas gempa tersebut berlaku.

Sampah sarap yang memenuhi sungai-sungai turut menghalang laluan air dan boleh mengakibatkan banjir tetapi ia akan dipantau oleh beberapa pakar.

"Dalam tempoh terdekat, kami tidak fikir ia akan mengundang sebarang bahaya," katanya.

Timbalan gabenor di wilayah itu Li Chengyun berkata, wilayah tersebut menyasarkan untuk membina semula jalan raya dan bandar dalam tempoh tiga tahun.

Sementara itu, Timbalan Menteri Perlindungan Alam Sekitar, Wu Xiaoqing berkata, semua kemudahan nuklear adalah selamat.

Bagaimanapun, pakar-pakar masih cuba untuk 'menyelamatkan 15 kawasan yang merupakan sumber radiasi. - AP

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