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The Mianzhu Highway Robbery

A case of apparent looting of disaster relief materials on the highway was solved by Internet users, a policeman and a newspaper reporter. ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Sun, Jun 01 2008

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15 May 07 visit Robbery At China's Highway  »  YouTube videoRobbery happen in China that you unable to believe it. The robbers are over and there is no police take action to them.
02 Jun 08 visit China: Looting of Disaster Relief Materials  »  Global Voices ESWN translated a blog post and a local newspapers report on a story about the looting of disaster relief materials.
14 Feb 08 visit China to extend highway toll exemptions to help disaster relief  »  People's Daily The Chinese government has extended the highway toll exemptions for trucks carrying food to help snow disaster relief work and reconstruction in areas affected by the severe winter weather of the last month, the Ministry of Communications h ...
14 May 08 visit Army airdrops disaster relief goods to Sichuan  »  Shanghai Daily AN aerotransport of China's air force airdropped for the first time five tonnes of disaster relief materials around 4:00pm today, including mineral water, milk, instant noodles, into Mianzhu City in quake-stricken...
28 Jul 08 visit Landslides block off highway  »  Shanghai Daily THE China-Nepal Highway was yesterday still blocked after nine of the workers sent to repair the road were injured by further landslides, disaster relief officials said. All of the injured workers are out of danger....
09 Feb 08 visit US disaster-relief materials arrive in Shanghai  »  china.org.cn Disaster-relief materials valuing about 820,000 U.S. dollars, provided by the defense department of the United States of America for freezing-disaster affected areas of China, arrived in Shanghai Friday.

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