Pandas before|after Earthquake

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In this catastrophic earthquake, not only a lot of people died or got handicapped, severely injured, quite a few pandas became homeless, scared and ran away from the Giant Panda Breeding Base to escape from [...]

An additional comment on Sharon Stone’s ‘karma’ response

While most people criticized Sharon Stone’s association between karma and China’s earthquake, I saw few are trying to help her to get away by quoting her last few sentences:
Then I got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation, and they wanted to go and be helpful. And that made my cry. And they asked me if [...]

Sharon Stone：the earthquake is karma

When asked about the Sichuan earthquake in the Cannes Film Festival, the actress responded delightfully, “Well, you know, it was very interesting…I am unhappy about the way Chinese are treating the Tibetans… Then all this earthquake,all this stuff happened, I thought, is that Karma? When you are not nice, the bad things happen to [...]

Oil-for-Firearm Program

Reference: USA Today’s headline news for today: “Iraqi forces load up on U.S. arms“.
The Oil-for-Food Program was implemented in Iraq by the U.N. since 1995, until 2003;
The Oil-for-Firearm Program, although not officially named, was implemented in Iraq by the U.S. since 2003.
The Oil-for-Food Program was introduced by President Clinton, after  his predecessor, President Bush, destroyed [...]

Falun Gong Tried to Celebrate Sichuan Earthquake But Got Boo’ed

May 17th – When the tragedy of Sichuan earthquake saddens millions of people all around the globe, Falun Gong New York branch held a party in Flushing, NY this afternoon to celebrate the hit to China – Chinese people and government alike. Featured with balloons, music, speeches, and posters that read “Bad Karma for China”, [...]

Sichuan Earthquake photos and stories behind them

The tragedies, the sacrifices, the help, the ones in need.
Zhang Guanrong is trying to clean her husband’s body. Tan Qianqiu, a middle school teacher, saved four of his students by sheltering them between a desk and himself. He did not survive.

Mama, it’s dark and cold here.

Zhang Jiwan, 11, lived in the remote mountainous region near [...]

Internet user help military rescue force for Wenchuan earthquake

A college girl successfully helped the Chinese air force to send relief effort, by posting on the Internet, Chinese news reported on May15th, 3 days after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Wenchuan County.
The girl, a student at Culinary Institute of Sichuan, is originally from Wenchuan. After knowing all roads to Wenchuan had been cut off [...]

Call for generous donation to Earthquake rescue

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/12/world/05132008_CHINA_MAP.html

more update: Wenchuan earthquake

As of May 14th, 2008, In Sichuan province, China, over 14,463 people have died and 25,788 people are still buried in rubbles while 1,405 people are reported missing.
17 cities and townships in Sichuan province have been devastated by the earth quake.
64,746 people are injuried, 4.15 million houses are damaged while 216,000 houses have collapsed. Over [...]

Update: over 12,000 dead in Wenchuan earthquake

By May 13th, in Sichuan province alone, over 12,000 people had died after Wenchuan earthquake. There are also more than 26,206 injured and 9,404 still buried in rubbles. Over 3.46 million houses and buildings had been destroyed or severely damaged.
Majority of the reported death is located at Mianyang (7,395) and Deyang (2648), while there is [...]

Wenchuan Earthquake Update

As of 7 AM local time, May 13th, 9219 deaths have been reported from the earthquake that took place in Wenchuan County of central Sichuan Province. An official from the county reported via satellite phone that 30,000 people in the county downtown had survived and gathered on streets, fearing more aftershocks to come. Army paratroops [...]

Please pray for them

May, 12, 2:28 pm(3:28am Central Time), one of the deadliest earthquakes in decades struck China. The earthquake affects more than one or two cities, counties or areas. Half of China felt it, it caused damages across several provinces. As of now, the death toll reaches 8533, and is still increasing. For the city of [...]

My list

As I mentioned in the post: Welcome to Beijing, the music video features quite a few interesting traditions and customs . I am trying to make a list of them with comments and links for further reading. The list is pretty long, I am updating it everyday.
1. 03′-mianren (Dough Figurine)
Dough Figurine (Miansu or Mianren) [...]

Understanding another world: How to Communicate with China

Here is a hitchhiker’s guide to communicating with China http://www.peaceintibet.com/
The article is posted on the front page of the website while there is no permanent link to it so that if you are reading this a few weeks from today, you may have to dig into the archive of that website.
The article mainly explains [...]

Welcome to Beijing

Well, something to cheer up. This is the song released for 100 day countdown to Beijing Olympics, sung by 100 Chinese singers/entertainers. Though the MV is busy giving every participant a front shot, it also contains rich elements of Chinese traditional culture, such as calligraphy, architecture, costume, custom, food, entertainment, art [...]