XINING - Though Yushu prefecture now lies in ruins and sorrow, it's future may include rebuilding itself into an ecological tourism city.
4-year-old girl, grandma saved 120 hours after deadly quake
XINING - Making nearly 150 phone calls a day and traveling here and there in the city, to be frank, makes me weary. But I know that's what I came here for - to report everything about the quake.
Doctor Nyima Tsering finished yet another operation before he rushed to a mass funeral on Saturday at Gyegu Monastery, where his seven relatives lay dead.
GYEGU, Qinghai - More than 100 detainees in the detention center of earthquake-hit Yushu prefecture have been safely transferred, with none killed in the earthquake or escaping during the transfer, a local armed police officer said on Monday.
As truckloads of food, water and tents poured in amid inclement weather, a state of relative normalcy has begun to return to Gyegu, the epicenter of a powerful tremor.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Monday it is preparing to dispatch warm clothing, school tents and supplies to help youngsters affected by last week's earthquake in western China.
China's religious groups have donated about 20 million yuan (2.93 million U.S. dollars) to the relief effort in quake-hit Yushu of northwestern Qinghai Province, said the State Administration for Religious Affairs here Monday.
China's Ministry of Commerce said here Monday that it has sent 3,000 heating stoves and some mobile shops to the earthquake-struck Yushu, Qinghai Province.
The oversea Chinese in France hold a fundraising event for victims in the quake-hit Yushu County of northwest China's Qinghai Province, at Amicale des Teochew in Paris, April 18, 2010.
China's quake-hit Qinghai Province has received 586 million yuan ($85.8 million) in donations since a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the region last Wednesday, the provincial bureau of finance said Monday morning.
Rescue teams are still sparing no efforts to try to find more survivors in every corner of the devastated town of Yushu, six days after the 7.1 magnitude jolted the area.