AS the death toll in China rises to 33000 and thousands more are left without water, food and shelter, the city's Chinese community is appealing for people

By JOSEPH G. COTE Staff Writer NASHUA – University of Massachusetts student Evan Gao has been doing his best to avoid the news. Eventually it becomes too

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in support of H.R.1195, a resolution expressing condolences and sympathy to the people of the People's Republic of China after the destruction caused by the earthquake centered in Sichuan Province. The resolution passed by a voice vote this afternoon on the floor. Below are the Speaker's remarks:
"On Monday, May 12th, a massive earthquake struck the Sichuan province in central China that registered 7.9 on the Richter scale. As many as 40,000 people have perished and it is feared the death toll may reach 50,000.
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KINGSTON, RI - The Confucius Institute and Chinese Students and Scholars Association at the University of Rhode Island have partnered with the China Earthquake Relief Committee of Rhode Island in a statewide effort to aid earthquake victims in Sichuan, China.
Many Rhode Islanders are watching this devastating tragedy unfold on television and would like to know how to help the earthquake victims, says Louis Yip, a community leader of Chinese Americans in Rhode Island and chair of the relief fund.
relief committee that includes Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis, Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Congressman James Langevin,

The tragedy of the Chinese earthquake may be redeemed somewhat by long-term, positive changes in China's civil society. The response to that disaster shows how much prosperity, openness to the outside world and the revolution in communications has diluted the Communist Party's tight control of the populace.
The normal reaction of the leadership is to cover up or downplay national mishaps as it did with the 2002 SARS outbreak and, most egregiously, a 1976 earthquake that killed 240,000 and was treated as a state secret.
y and the Young Communists. Private organizations are banned or discouraged.

While hundreds fell silent in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and all of China came to a halt for three minutes of silence Monday, Yale’s own Chinese community held a similar moment of silence halfway across the world.
A candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massive earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan last Monday drew approximately 80 to Cross Campus last night. The event, which was organized by the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, was designed to express solidarity in the wake of the disaster, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.
ted to gather people together because the entire nation has the same sorrow,” he said. “It’s

More than 200 workers repairing quake-shattered roads in China's Sichuan province were buried over the past three days by mudslides, state media reported Monday as millions of Chinese people paused to mark the first week since the deadly quake.
Rescue workers search buildings in China; AP photo
lowers and bowed in silence.

By M&C News May 19, 2008, 2:06 GMT Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) load humanitarian rescue goods onto boats to be taken to the isolated

BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake that killed at least 29000 people in China also badly hurt livestock and crops in Sichuan province, and disinfection teams

Almost five million people have been left homeless by Monday's devastating earthquake in China's south-western Sichuan Province, officials say.
They said the extent of the problem only became clear when communications were restored.
n the region only became clear on Friday.