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China earthquake: Angry parents protest collapse of China's

China — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for officials worried that a spotlight may ...

from YouTube on Thu, May 22 2008

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03 Jun 08		Why Only School Building Collapsed in the Vicinity? » YouTube videoChina — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for officials worried that a spotlight may ...
03 Jun 08		Angry Chinese Demanding Punishment to Corrupted Officials » YouTube videoFrom:NTDTV May 23, 2008 The fragility of schools that collapsed in China's earthquake has aroused widespread claims that corruption compromised the strength of the school buildings. Hundreds of parents of children killed in Juyuan College are...
03 Jun 08		Tofu School Killed Thousand Students in China Earthquake » YouTube videoOfficials say more than 7,000 schoolrooms were destroyed in the disaster. Often, schoolhouses were the only buildings in the area to fully collapse and experts say China's problem was a lack of commitment by governments to safe schools. "Children killed...
30 Jul 08		Moving on without closure: The hardiness and resilience of the Chinese society » Blogging For China ” China presses hush money on grieving parents,” according to New York Times Parents of children killed in collapsed school buildings in the Sichuan earthquake have been offered cash settlements, relaxing of the birth quota and pensions by the...
16 May 08		Officials: China to investigate collapse of school buildings in quake regions » People's Daily China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) has ordered local authorities to investigate the reasons why school buildings collapsed in the earthquake, said Yang Rong, director of the MOHURD's department of standards and ...
01 Jun 08		Grief and anger » James Reynolds One huge issue has emerged in the aftermath of the earthquake - why did school buildings collapse, when other buildings next to them stayed standing? Put simply - did so many school children have to die? Official figures say that...

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