Survivors emerge as China quake rescue intensifies

Foreign rescue teams have joined the front line in the battle to free those trapped after Monday's devastating earthquake in southwest China. A 55-member rescue team from Singapore on Saturday morning reached Hongbai town, one of the worst-hit areas ...

Saturday 100,000 U.S. dollars in aid to the Chinese government to help people in the quake-stricken region...He wished that the Chinese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), would overcome the disaster and rebuild their ...

A policeman told The Associated Press that rescue officials were worried that water from the choked river would inundate the town. "The river was jammed up by a landslide, now that may burst. That is what we are worried about," the policeman said as ...

Russian rescuers found and saved an earthquake survivor in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday evening, the first survivor found by a foreign rescue team, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The survivor was found in a dormitory ...

More countries and international organizations have, by various means, offered their condolences and aid over a deadly earthquake in southwestern China. Among the leaders who sent messages to Chinese President Hu Jintao are: South African President ...

The United States has provided more than 23 million U.S. dollars in aid to China following a devastating earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan province. The White House, in anticipation of an appeal from the International Red Cross, has offered ...

There have been no outbreak of major infectious diseases or public health emergencies in quake-devastated Sichuan Province in southwest China. Li Chengyun, vice governor of Sichuan, said at a news briefing Saturday that officials had been monitoring ...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday underscored unremitting efforts in searching and rescuing people buried in debris in the earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province. Rescuers should do all out and leave no "dead angle" or "blind spot" when ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday urged rescue teams to reach remote villages that were battered by the strong earthquake in the southwestern Sichuan Province as soon as possible. Touring Wenchuan County, epicenter of Monday's 7.8-magnitude ...

2 IST A 46-year-old man who was rescued almost 100 hours after the devastating earthquake hit China, said he lived on cigarettes and paper napkins and drank his urine to survive those critical moments, state media reported. "I searched my pockets ...