China: Quake-hit schools were poorly built / Mexico: Three held in beheadings / Russia: Army kills 5 Muslim rebels in Dagestan Schools were poorly built ...full story at LA Times
from LA Times on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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Nanchang University Torch Run »
YouTube video A poorly filmed, poorly edited version of May 16,2008, when the Olympic torch came to the university where I teach in China! |
| 21 May 08 |
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Senior Chinese official: Newly built schools should be of high quality » People's Daily China's top anti-graft official said here Tuesday that newly built schools in the quake-hit areas must be of high quality and with higher anti-quake standard. He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau o ... |
| 30 May 07 |
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Collapse kills 16 at banquet » Shanghai Daily SIXTEEN people died and 29 others were injured after a roof collapsed in a poorly built house on Tuesday in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the local government said yesterday. |
| 05 Jun 08 |
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The Upside Of China Corruption » China Law Blog Fascinating and insightful post over at Richard Spencer's blog, entitled, "When Corruption Works." The post posits that one of the reasons there were so many poorly constructed schools in Sichuan province is because there were so many schools and the... |
| 18 Oct 07 |
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Schools planned » Shanghai Daily CHINA'S central government is to invest 600 million yuan (US$80 million) over the next three years to build and expand 190 special schools for the handicapped. The schools will be built mainly in China's less prosperous central and west areas, where... |
| 15 May 08 |
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Schools in China quake zone suspend classes » Shanghai Daily CHINA'S Ministry of Education (MoE) has told schools in the southwest China quake zone to suspend classes according to local needs, a ministry spokesman said today. Some schools in the area had been severely damaged... |