Posts Tagged ‘shanghai’

2010 Yushu, Tibet EarthQuake

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

* Click for more details – Official Death toll over 2000 but local survivors claim much much more. Hundreds Still Missing. Over 12000 injured. Most buildings destroyed. news.blogs.cnn.com “Tens of Thousands of survivors are requesting President Hu Jintao & Premier Wen Jiabaoto to allow His Holiness The Dalai Lama to visit the Quake zone to conduct the funerals for Thousands of Tibetans who lost their lives, to pray for the departed souls and to provide solace to the broken hearts.” tibet.net His Holiness the Dalai Lama is deeply concerned over the Tibetans affected by the earthquake in Kyigudo region in Tibet and expressing his hopes and wishes to visit the region. After Quake, Ethnic Tibetans Distrust Chinas Help We want to save lives. They see this tragedy as an opportunity to make propaganda. www.nytimes.com The sensitivity behind the latest Chinese earthquake blogs.channel4.com Please Help ! Donations accepted here: www.TibetFund.org http www.TibetanVillageProject.org http www.SaveTibet.org Photos of Yushu Tibet http During all these sufferings that Tibetans are going through, Chinese rescuers steal Tibetan Mastiff puppies from the quake zone. woeser.middle-way.net China’s latest luxury obsession: Tibetan mastiffs news.yahoo.com www.savetibet.org www.highpeakspureearth.com Whilst Chinese media refers to the affected area as the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu (玉树) in Qinghai province, Western media has been calling it Western or North Western China inhabited

Afterquake: Making music with Sichuan earthquake survivors

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

From www.afterquakemusic.com In May 2008 an earthquake devastated Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless. To commemorate the one year anniversary of this tragedy, musicians Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project traveled to Sichuan to make music with children who survived the earthquake and their parents. Using folk songs sung by the children as well as sounds of their parents rebuilding their houses with bricks and …

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