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A Chinese activist who investigated whether shoddy construction contributed to deaths in the Sichuan quake in 2008 has been sentenced to five years' jail.

source: BBC news Original article

Source: Reuters * Men saying they were fighters are crossing into China * Reluctance to return could become problem for Beijing * Some refugees readying to return to Myanmar * For a Q&A on China's ...

Source: UNHCR We are concerned about reports that between 10,000 and 30,000 refugees have fled Myanmar's north-eastern Shan State in recent weeks into China's Yunnan Province. We are liaising with the authorities ...

Source: Reuters (Adds details on refugees in paragraph 6, UN offer in paragraph 14) By Chris Buckley BEIJING, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Fresh fighting has erupted between Myanmar forces and an armed ethnic group in the ...

Date: 28 Aug 2009
Source: Reuters - AlertNet

Source: Reuters (Updates details, numbers displaced) BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters) - Flooding and heavy rain in southern China have forced 550,000 people to evacuate their homes and killed at least 15, Xinhua news ...

Source: Reuters BEIJING, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been made homeless by an earthquake on Sunday in remote Qapqal, in China's far western region of Xinjiang near the Kazakh border, the Xinhua news ...