China Earthquakes Cause Nuclear Safety Concern
Nuclear facilities located in the mountainous area around Wenchuan, the epicenter of the recent savage earthquake that shook southwest China, are causing concerns among local residents and government officials about the possibilities that they may have been damaged
May 18th,2008
Millions of China Earthquake Refugees Must Be Resettled
Millions of people are streaming out of earthquake blasted Wenchuan and northwest Sichuan, leaving the debris that once was their homes, driven by continuing aftershocks, a lack of safe water, food, and housing, a fear of massive flooding caused by quake-trashed mountain streams and lakes and their dams, and now the plague threat from the thousands of rubble-buried bodies decomposing in the mounting spring heat and rain.
May 18th,2008
China Earthquakes More Peril: Dam and Reservoir Collapse
The 7.8 earthquake that shook Sichuan Province in the afternoon of May 12, killing an estimated 50,000, is posing a continuing threat as the untold damage to hydropower stations and reservoir dams upstream on the Min River (the Minjiang) becomes apparent. The Minjiang is a tributary of the Yangtze River.
May 17th,2008
Earthquake's Shock to Sichuan Not Such a Shock to China's Economy
The disastrous Sichuan earthquake is now thought to have claimed around 50,000 lives. Whole villages and small towns have ceased to exist, and larger towns have been extremely damaged. But Wenchuan County is remote even in remote western Sichuan and occupies a small area in the vastness that is China, and it is believed that the devastation wrought there will have a relatively slight effect on the nation's economy compared to the snow storm in January that enveloped central China and developed coastal areas, and will not last long. Currently the industrial plant and agriculture have not been affected seriously.
May 17th,2008
Earthquakes in China Disrupt the Supply of Nonferrous Metals
The recent earthquakes with their epicenter in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province have affected the exploitation, production, and transportation of nonferrous metals in Sichuan and Yunnan Province; this will affect the supply of some nonferrous metals, especially the short term supply of zinc.
May 16th,2008
China's Earthquakes Kill 10,000, Schools, Towns, and Hospitals Buried
The 7.8 quake that shook Sichuan Province yesterday afternoon has proved to be devastating and wide reaching. According to updated reports from the Ministry of Civil Affair, 9219 people are dead in the provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou, and Hubei, with thousands more waiting to be dug out
May 13rd,2008
Breaking Iranian Nuclear Impasse
A solution to break Iran's nuclear impasse is to make it clear that Iran can go ahead with uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes, but it has to be assured as peaceful with close international monitoring, and truly strong international sanctions shall be evoked should there be a violation.
May 7th,2008
Engineers Expected to be Less Dominant in China's Social Engineering Program
While 10 years ago, engineers seemed to be the mainstay in China's central government, it is now becoming apparent that China's next generation of political leaders will be of a different breed. China's future leaders will have noticeably different backgrounds, with talents who majored in economics, law, and social sciences, most of whom were pursuing higher education at the beginning of the reform and opening-up, taking the reigns of power
May 6th,2008
China-Japan-South Korea FTA Saga: More Thunder, Little Rain
The Chinese President Hu Jintao is paying a visit to Japan, labeled by Beijing "a journey of warm spring." Premier Wen Jiaobao's visit last year was called "ice-melting journey." With a warming China-Japan relationship and Korea's active attitude, the establishment of free trade zone is again being raised as an issue among the three countries.
May 5th,2008
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